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damn it´s sad dude
the last model , http://www.globalsuzuki.com/motorcycle/moto/street/gs500/99999-A0103-191.pdf
Gs500 got removed on Lot´s of Suzuki Europe websites , so Suzuki started process to make Gs500 Discontinued :mad:
Exemples :
http://motorrad.suzuki.de/index.php?id=30 , no more gs500 on Germany
http://moto.suzuki.es/listado_versiones.cfm?id_gama=4&cd_familia=1 , no more on Spain
http://www.suzuki.it/ita/main.aspx?sezione=moto , no more on Italy
http://www.suzuki.pt/motos/index.asp?area=motos&subarea=1&id=8 , no more in Portugal
yet i saw on england , the future :dunno_white:
an minute of silence :cry:
It's a 2009 model on the US site. Shithell, it outlived the SV650 nekked and SV1000S. :cookoo:
they starting slow discontinue dude :cry:
Yep - I'm just saying, for what it is, it's had a long, long run. :icon_mrgreen:
Chances are if the economy/gas prices stay the way they are, they'll look to continue it for a couple of years, maybe with another facelift or something.
Suzuki doesn't make a small street bike anymore... all they have is the Boulevard 250's and SuperMoto 250's and that's about it. The GS500F is their only competition to say the Kawasaki Ninja 250R... sad really. I'm guessing we'll be seeing the GS500 until maybe 2012, and then an abrupt and final execution.
Most people who want a starter bike look to something like the GS500 or the Ninja 250R because they're (all-in-all) an un-intimidating first ride that has a street bike soul.
The thing is, we're either going to see a smaller version of the GS line (bring back the GS400, or possibly an SV250?) or and over-all dismissal of the 250-500 series sport bike all together.
The way things have gone people are all about the extremes. Gixxers and CBR's or Harleys and Star Cruisers... Busa's and B-Kings, or Supermotos and Dual Purpose. The honest truth is that the market has been dominated with 2 starter bikes.... Ninja 250 and Honda Rebel... that's it. Why should anyone else try to compete with bikes that have been top choice for over 20 years going?
Like I said, the only way there'll be a continuation of the GS500 line is due to economy, and gas prices... other than that there's no niche for the mid-level sport bike anymore.
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Dan
Danny 500:- I'm gonna bet that about 30 chineese and korean companies are gonna be licking their lips if that turns to be true ...
Moreover, gas costing 5 bucks a gallon will make a FI, smaller and longer intake tract, tight and efficient GS a huge possibility. Water cooling - maybe ...
Cool.
Buddha.
Quote from: The Buddha on October 07, 2008, 06:56:28 AM
Danny 500:- I'm gonna bet that about 30 chineese and korean companies are gonna be licking their lips if that turns to be true ...
Moreover, gas costing 5 bucks a gallon will make a FI, smaller and longer intake tract, tight and efficient GS a huge possibility. Water cooling - maybe ...
Cool.
Buddha.
Hah! I totally agree about Chinese knock-offs rearing up... Kymco/Hyosung already ripped off the SV650 design, so why not it's little brother too.
That's a route I never thought of... improvement, but like I said, why do that with the 500 when if you did that much work to it it'd basically be a GSXR 500... or re-done Katana (which is already dead). I'm guessing if they did an update, it'd consist on same chassis, updated plastics, and smaller displacement before getting any efficiency tweaking...
Either that or they just economize the motor and slap it into a scooter chassis... GS Burgman anyone? :cookoo:
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Dan
Smaller carb opening FI and longer intake tract are easy mods. Eater cooling is gonna be a stretch ... but I think we could well see a 70-80 mpg GS ... Heck I could build one ... if I knew how to get FI working on a non 100% electronic ...
Cool.
Buddha.
All down to emissions apparently...
Quote from: Danny500 on October 07, 2008, 09:14:52 AMHah! I totally agree about Chinese knock-offs rearing up... Kymco/Hyosung
Korean, not Chinese. ;)
Well, Kawasaki has shown that you can slap pretty fairing on an old-tech bike and the Starbucks crowd will eat it up; maybe Suzuki will catch on and slap a GSX-R-looking fairing on the GS500 and call it the GXSRVRR500FZZR. Sell it for $500 more than the current GS...
Yea, a 400 cc water cooled 4 valved fuel injected belt drive GS with a GSXR looking fairing ... like a GSXR 750 without the outer cylinders. I'll take one ... 10 years or so after its out, if its been made in unchanged format till then ... yea ... maybe.
Cool.
Buddha.
this was bound to happen sooner or later.
I'd LOVE a GS400 with 4 valves per cylinder, fuel injection and liquid cooling. but doesnt the older Bandit 400 cover half of those nicely?
what I'd REALLY like to see, is a 50HP I4 GSXR250 with fuel injection, and I'd be content. although I prefer the I4 CBR250RR more.