![]() ![]() These bikes seem like the cheapest bikes out there above 250cc. I want to buy a relatively cheap bike and ride from Virginia to Florida or maybe even to California. I just got laid off and will have some time for the first time in my life, but have to be conservative with money. I've done multi-state trips on 2 bikes I can't afford now and here are my experiences: a v-strom and couldn't stand the buffeting (madstad bracket all the way back produced wind blast directly at neck, but otherwise a great bike for me) and a fz6r ((very clean air that hit on my chest and neck (it was summer but got cold a couple of times in NE) but otherwise a great bike for me)). My buddy picked up a 750 and I test rode it and was surprised at how comfortable it was. Most of them have already been recycled into tin cans, so you won't find lots of used parts for them, which is kind of important as Suzuki quit making new parts of them a LONG time ago! The newest MK1 (97) are already old enough to get their drivers licence and attend college! That also means that the aftermarket, which never really picked up on them, has already dried out. No need for child like hands to work on it.īut. No hidden locking tabs that break the moment you try to take them apart. Fairings are just two pieces per side, upper and lower. You get an alternator with a field coil, none of this modern permanent magnets that run the stator at 100% until they burn. Got on the highway and without knowing it I was doing 90mph. Last time I rode my Katana 750 I was meeting the buyer, and I hadn't rode it in years, so I spent most of the morning cleaning the carbs to get it to run again and then I went to meet the buyer. Have you worked on them, have you rode one? They were really misunderstood as people expected them to be a competitor to the CBR / FZR / ZX-6, the GSX-R 600 didn't exist back then, and they werent that. Of course, it is probably the ugliest motorcycle to come out of the late 1980's, when there were A LOT of ugly motorcycles. A good bike, I didn't know how good until I had owned several more. Last I heard, it was still tooling around my home town. I think all I ever did in about 50k was tires, an occasional oil change, a chain, and brake pads. Then, after a close call, I decided to get out of motorcycling - that was about 10 bikes and 20 years ago. it did everything the 600 did just a little better and had great roll-on power on the highway. I moved up to a 750 after that and I really liked that bike too. It was a great highway traveler, that could get sporty when necessary, and did I mention it never broke. I rode it all over the south for many years, and it never gave me a problem. The big thing I liked about it was it was very comfortable and felt very secure and planted at highway speed. It was a bit heavy compared to the 90's supersports, but had plenty of power and handled surprisingly well. The Katana was, I suppose, a sport bike back in it's day. It was light flickable a great first bike. The Seca was small and a bit cramped, but had a great engine that would keep up with my buddies supersports in all but the most challenging riding. Not in a performance sense, but in a "they never broke or needed any maintenance. I have to say, both were pretty exceptional motorcycles. Funny, I had both those bikes (Katana 600 and Seca 600). ![]()
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