[tony]

Those two bikes were of fit in ahead of the 883 along with the Bandit 600, Marauder, the DR650 would of been a better choise for the daul sport. I think they only wanted one bike from each manufactor and Kawasaki was the klr650. It was a nice test and brought out different points of different style bikes. Reality if I was going to spend almost $6k on some of those bikes I could by last years model of a katana 600. It would be a new 2000 and this is still 2000 at least for a couple days. But you could walk away with a 2000 Bandit 1200 right now for $6.5k. I would guess you could get a ZR1100 for the same it would be worth waiting a couple months to have some extra $$$. It would of been nice if they used the nija 500 instead of the Klr650 since it should of come in second or at least should of. Suzuki and Kawasaki make the best and most budget minded bikes so they should of come out 1-2 in my mind.

 

[tony]

So this was a good start

So this was a good start writing about bikes that work good for everyday. I was getting tired of reading about 600 sport bikes. All of them made out of the same mold and the difference so minute that you can only tell on the track. No one could ever say that comparing the 883 to the KLR was splitting hairs. Yes your comparison is flawed only because each persons priorities are different. Each one of us could list the bikes in our own order. Lots of folks have only ridden one or two bikes. Right now new riders seemed to be funneled into a couple diferent catagories. There are multiple options available to us and these 6 bikes did cover quite a spread.

One bike that should of been test, I wished was tested was the SV996!

Oh ya Suzuki forgot to make it. It would of been nice could of been but then what the hey.