- Location
- West Wales
Doing 60mile to a tank-Ish with my kodiak 450, Honda 420 in ES does around 75-80km, far less in DCT mode. Yam is on 12k mile and 4500hrs, had 3 services, a set of tyres and all new brakes but the brakes were no surprise with the way I drive it.I've swapped a Honda 500 for a Yam 700 this time.
I was initially comparing between a Honda 520, which is the new model and the Yam 450. Very similar bikes.
A thing then happened left me needing to swap at short notice.
Honda had a massive lead time for any bike.
Yamaha had a fair lead as well but the dealer put the effort in and found me a 700.
The 700 is a big bike obviously . Fuel wise I'm probably getting 15ish clock hours out of a Jerry can.
It's my first auto bike, auto is excellent. Hi-Lo range covers all your bases.
It is fast.
Suspension and therefore ride is better.
As is braking.
Reliability is unknown as I'm only about 60hrs in.
Spec wise I always take the wide tyre option on bikes, stability improves so much. Again better than the Honda I think.
That's all I can think of off the top of me head.