Honda 500esp or Suzuki 500 auto
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Dave6170
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- Location
- Watten, caithness
Suzuki every day!!
west coast angus
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You would be mad not to look at the yamaha kodiack 700, don't be put off thinking it's a massive big thirsty bike, it's not at all, you will not regret spending slightly more for a far far better bike. ?
Hope they've improved the suspension since I got a demo of a Kodiak 700 3 years ago.....
......I didn't get out of the yard before turning to go check the tyre pressures weren't rock hard. They weren't, the ride really was that hard ?
Honda IRS better, but still liked to bounce when on the heather Muir.
I bought a Suzuki that time ?
It’s adjustable, set it where you want
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Anthony (at Marston Moretaine) is my school bestie's neighbour and is very good to deal with - as is Keith at MKM at Ixworth Thorpe (ex Fieldens)
west coast angus
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The one I had on demo a 2019 model, had brilliant suspension, not hard at all! Maybe yours was not broken in or was set on hard. I went for the grizzly in the end, its a brilliant bike.
It was on the softest setting (standard would be 1 click up from there)
"Sports" cars are often tuned with stiffer spring and damper settings to give the driver the "impression" that they're going faster
Monks used to flagellate themselves to atone for their sins
Some people gain sexual release from being hurt physically
Reckon that those types of people must have tuned the Kodiak 700 suspension ??
- Location
- West Wales
Try a new one and you’d swap makes or keep your one. You can’t have it in 5th and tootle along now, the gearbox automatically drops down, get to a gate and it goes to 1 every time and not 2, 1 is to slow and the gearboxes don’t go up fast enough. Had 10-12 ES’s over the years and a foreman ES/Auto in 2005 and all were faultless apart from the 2015 Honda 420 ES/DCT which is crap, troublesome and horrible to drive. My pickup’s turning circle is almost better than it!
main bike is a Yam kodiak 450 here and very happy.
a manual or auto?
Suzuki and Honda dealirships are closest.
auto
west coast angus
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I am 200 miles away from the nearest dealer, that's why I went for a yamaha?
Just had my Honda 420back from dealer wouldn't buy another 550hrs light use 3 starters king pins ,ball joints axel seals dealer said most starters last no more than a year rand Honda are not interested ,he recommends a Suzuki or yam
exmoor dave
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- exmoor, uk
2017 500es irs here
It's been brilliant.
Auto mode is abit of a gimmick..... that is till you need to hold a sheep or something with your left arm, then auto is the best thing ever ?