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Great Video! I've been going between the RS-12 and this SCR Project Rally. Your insight was very helpful. I am also curious what windshield you're running, and are you happy with it? It looks good while appearing to be significantly better than the stock one, which creates a lot of buffeting for me. Cheers!

I enjoyed your vid, I bought the Suzuki which I have been enjoying for a couple months. I bought it to replace my Honda ST1300. It is a great bike and 200 #s lighter than the Honda. I like the sports tour style. I do have a Indian for cruising but find myself riding the Suzuki more. The Suzuki rides so smooth and exciting. I highly recommend this bike.

Its strange that the engine would be tuned to have that power curve, almost like its maybe meant to ride offroad or something 🤔

Complaining about lack of wind protection on a naked bike is like complaining your ice cream is too cold 😂

What screen have you fitted, and how is the buffeting?

there is no excuse for the paint on the tank rubbing off after such a short time, I would have to conclude that the build quality is crap

1:58 update - a month after the exhaust arrived, I've had a bill of £102 for import duties. Thought it was too good to be true!

Hey does it gets foggy often ? Cuz mine gets foggy all the time .

I agree with you with the headlights and seat. Special the headlights , they are the worst.

Hey there how easy is the tail tidy to fit also do you have a link ,, I’ve seen some for 30 quid and some for 130

Good review. I tested the suzi and the kawa. I liked them both but the kawa gave me a more "classy" feeling... the suzi felt a bit cheap. A BMW I don't even look at: way to pricy for me. Today I'll pick up my new Kawa😊

Hey it's you Reef Dork. What a coincidence, to find you are also a biker as well as a reefer. I heard your voice, and I was like " there is only one guy who talks like that". I had no idea you were also doing biking content. I watched your Reefing videos, and I am also a biker interested in the GSX1000GT. coming from a very uncomfortable and hot Ducati V2.

Comfort is specific to ones body structure, what is comfortable for one, may not be for another.

yuck lol.

Dang. I love the GT+. 2,500 miles isn't much...I took mine on a 4,600+ mile cross country road trip the first week i got mine after the first service. It was a blast. I'm now getting the bike tuned after a couple internals.

Engine could be gem. But these high freq vibrations are so anoying....

Very interesting... I have about 1000 miles on my GSX-S GT, and I love it. No shoulder pain on long ride. My buddy has the Ninja 100sx. we were noticing that the Suzuki is slightly more upright. Sorry you were disappointed.

This man hasn't got a clue are you really trying to tell us that a 1200cc parallel twin has no low or mid range torque?

I was always baffled by the GT. Seating arrangements look uncomfortable for rider, let alone pillion. Perhaps Suzuki should sack their current designers and take a look at their back catalogue. Bandit 1250s, GSX1150EF. Not everyone wants or needs a manga inspired cartoon bike.

I think a lot of people are confused on what a sports tourer is, or the title has been muddled. Not saying your one of them but going from the GT to this is not even remotely the same bike. This is an adventure tourer light imo, which is fine but I seen a lot of comments on your "Why I sold" vid about people saying just get a "insert adventure bike here". Even Yamaha calls the Tracer GT a sports tourer. To me a Yamaha sports tourer would be a comfortable R!. I'm prob getting the SX because I feel the gripes you had with the GT would bug me too but adventure bikes and sport tourers are on different planets imo.

You probably would have enjoyed the TA, but im sure the 800 is nice as well

Thanks for this! I have same bike, same heated grips but wasn't sure how they operated. It's almost winter here in Australia so very timely!

Do you remember what the torque settings were?

100% the seat sucks after 30 mins my butt is starting to hurt . i have an air seat pad and it helps a lot . i love its power its quick for sure

I got the same exhaust, sounds much better even with dbkiller but mine is really stuck in there! I can’t get it out at all!!

I have the R1250 BMW GS. Try that out. It's great power and sit more upright. Let me know if you ever ridden one brother. I almost bought the GXS 1000GT but, the BMW will always have my heart! To me, nothing can beat it.

Here's a full review of the exhaust th-cam.com/video/LtPSc0Ey8bs/w-d-xo.html

Hi just getting the same colour as your self in the uk Can you send me the link for the exhaust so I can buy one 👍👍👍

Hi, beautiful your V-Strom 800DE, it is my favorite color and in a little year I would like to get it too so Have you noticed any difference in performance from exhaust with db killer and without db killer ? I wouldn't want it to lose a little spit at low revs.

I don't even have any serious off-road pretences, so I tend to dislike 21" wheels preferring 19" ones for their better on-road manners. So, the 800RE would have definitely been my choice if it had come out 3 years ago before I bought my Tiger 850. Mid capacity ADVs are perfect for the daily commute, long-distance tours and the occasional jaunts on dirt/gravel roads.... not to mention climbing up and down the kerbs in the city.

Test rode the GT and 1000sx back to back for a day. I was convinced before that, that the GT was the bike for me. Wrong. I found the sx miles better in every area. Now owned the sx for 14 months and I still love it.

I had the same experience with a V-Strom 1000 I bought after an hour of testing it out. It felt fine. But when I got my new bike I felt uncomfortable after 1,5 hours of riding. Ended up trying to fix it but sold it. I am quite tall and there is something about Suzuki riding position that my body doesn't like. I now have an MT09 and I am fine on that despite it being a streetfighter.

Why is everyone welding the exhaust hanger to the subframe at this point? Looks like a bad idea, just like on the T7. But it sounds really nice

I'd rather have separate buttons for TC, ABS and Power mode. The vstrom interface is simple...I don't need some dumb presets i cannot toggle or the settings go away on key off. Reverse gear is also really handy if you decide to build a side hack. Cheers!

Sounds great. I'm looking at this for my new vstrom and this was very helpful. Cheers!

I have a friend with the GT, he also has complaints about the lighting and some butt pain after a while. I have the naked one, from 2022, and find it fine in that regards. With more than 14.000 miles, and always wearing riding jeans, the tank paint its pretty much perfect. Yours seem scratched with something hard. Did you use some leg bag? Is the wear equal on both sides? Good to get real opinions, keep it up.

It looks so good in black😍😍😍😍😍😍

Better sound, but I do think the yoshumira one on mine looks and sounds the best. All a matter of opinion I know.

Any one make a full system yet

great video, thank you, you helped me a lot to choose motorcycles. Thank you again .

You need padded under wear to help with the seat.and a radar detector.

It's true that the bike is amazing!. I can ride to work enjoying a sunrise. Then lean in on a merge for some thrill . Then go.mudding after work all in one day .

Truth be known I have a 1000 SX. Thanks for honest review of your bike and personal experience from your perspective. I think that’s all we, as viewers, should ask from anyone that’s posting. I apologize in advance for all the goobers that are going to tell you that your perceptions are inappropriate because their’s don’t agree…! Lastly, if I had a dollar for every time the guy that has had “10,000 motorcycles” over the last “two millennia” has an opinion that disagrees with your experience but insists on parading ‘bona fides’ to prove that his ‘opinion’ is more superior than yours… I would be richer than Elon Musk! I DO love my 1000sx! Long, strong, and comfortable.

Stiff panniers- silicone grease on the lower rubber pads - problem sorted. You really didn’t try hard did you😂 th-cam.com/video/9cuTnnikcbw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=BNuzAnD7TYgfv91o

Aprreciated. I have been considering this model, and I think your video confirms my concerns, #1- the lighting. OF COURSE those tiny twinkies won't do the job, ESPECIALLY on the northeast US backroads, which are RIFE with deer. Lighting "Brightness"... is no replacement for lighting "VOLUME"; many riders may be hurt for this ridiculous "style".

The general consensus I hear is that this is good but unrefined, or at least not as refined as the Ninja SX its so often compared to. I sat on a Ninja SX today at my local dealer and it felt pretty darn good. I think the GSX looks better but only slightly and I want refinement if I'm buying a new $15k bike. Going to check out your other vids too.

Everything you listed as a negative is a positive for me I cannot abide naked bikes they are objectively less bike for the same money in my opinion and I love a 4 and high revving. The part about the paint and bag issues I just can't believe those are warranty issues you could have taken the bike back for

Because it’s average

You’re not the right guy to review a triumph scrambler 1200. You were just unlucky with that particular bike. I watched all the scrambler videos I could, before I bought mine, and they all were positive. Mine had a problem but it was easily fixed. I’m going to guess the bike you purchased to replace that scrambler……BMW R12 ?

Residuals are awful