After gaining experience wrenching and riding your Suz GS500 - what do you want as your next bike!?

I've been eyeing up some bobbed Yamaha XS 650s on ebay.

No question im leaving Carburetion!
I got my eyes on a newer Kawasaki ZX-6RR with undertail exhaust.
But I gotta get the gs payed for and get a car first 

• Being 6'4" with a 36" inseam and bad knees, when I go post-GS500 I am leaning toward a Suzuki DL-650 (Wee-Strom).  Much bigger digs than what I have now.  Great engine.  Great price.  The SUV of the Suzuki line.
  
  
• In number two position is the Yamaha FZ-6.  I consider it the GS500's bigger brother -- similar ergonomics but larger engine.  Unfortunately there is not much improvement on the legroom.
  
  
• Rounding out my top three choices (and if money was no object) is the Honda VFR-800.  Almost bought a pre-owned 2004 last year but my finances were not up to the purchase price.  Would love a RED one with saddle bags.  Space-age instrument cluster and great sport-touring reputation. 

In this day and age there are no bad bikes.  Consider what you want to use a motorcycle for, how much you want to pay, save up and keep your eyes open for the right bike to come along.

sv650, seca II (fj600), v-strom 650, klr650, cb750, vx800, katana 600...

-ash

sv650 for sure.

DR-Z400SM

Oh wait...

SV650. Affordable, logical next step, and from what I can tell, plenty powerful and nimble too. Why not? 

Just got another zrx1200, its my second. I love those things... Plenty fast, and you can add a lot of hp with some easy mods. Its kinda piggy in the corners.
I'm on the look out for a sv650 or maybe a 1000, but I've got sell something first.   

P3

Triumph 675...i love that bike...its so narrow..i hate portly bikes, the sound is amazing, and the price is right... wheres my drooling emoticon?

Honda cb-350.  Or else maybe Honda c70.

Quote from: ashman on March 03, 2007, 07:43:50 PM
sv650, seca II (fj600), v-strom 650, klr650, cb750, vx800, katana 600...

-ash


The SV 650 seems very popular.  I came from the Kawa. Rider's Forum site and seems everyone there likes to upgrade from the Ninja 250 to the SV 650.  I personally have the Katana 600 that I got a good deal on from Ebay.  (2003 for $3000 1400miles)

bikes I have had or still have....
ysr50
rs50
ar80
xr80
xr100
rs125
rg-v250
tz250
rz-350
dr350
gs500
srx-6
tt600
f2
f3
srad600 awsome but a bit wide
sv650
87 gsxr750
zx-7
rf900
r-1
fj1100
fj1200




reality... good cheap reliable comfy and can hold it's own on the street and cheap, valve adj at 16-20k.....another F-3 for longer trips and riding the local twisties
and why not keep a GS as the all purpose rider.  no real need to get a bigger bike...they just eat tires faster

FZR 600RD

then an SV1000/RC51  got to have v-twins now nothing else will due

Datona 675.

When I eventually have my mid-life crisis & get a literbike, it'll be a twin. Probably a Ducati.

Tracking the GS & never selling it though.

I dont think I could bring myself to sell ANY bike.

I myself am looking to get a '06 or '07 GSXR600 in about 2 years

f%$k yea man Honestly I want anything that can stunn easily

Quote from: robbie on March 04, 2007, 12:29:50 PM
f%$k yea man Honestly I want anything that can stunn easily

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I'm seriously considering a SV650 soon. I'd like a supersport but theres no way I'm good enough to use one right. I don't think I've learned all I can from my GS, but I don't feel particularly safe on the GS. Between the suspension, the bars, the brakes, and the tires I just don't trust my GS to stay upright in the twisties. This is partly my own fault, but to upgrade all of those parts would be pricey and wouldn't convince me that the bike would keep running fine. I want a new bike that I know the full history of, and I want to stick some better rubber on it and take it to a track to properly learn.

Alternatively I'd like to sneak an Aprilia RS50 into the US and play with that.

Quote from: anthonyd5189 on March 04, 2007, 12:26:51 PM
As much as i love the Daytona 675....you have a 70% chance of wrecking it...they are the highest crashed bike out there.  So if you get one be safe.

I dont want to argue about the stupidity of that statement here:

http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=33603.0