Test Drove One Of These Today

[dlancer]

I'm on vacation this week so I thought for s@*ts and giggles I would test drive one of these. ( www. hyosungmotors.com.au ). When the site comes up click on cruiser. It was a GV650 cruiser. I was very impressed with the bike, but don't know about the reliability of Korean bikes.

[skreemer]

these have been on the market for awhile... They used the left over tooling from Suzuki's SV to make em. They are everything the SV is with like a step or two down in components. From all of the reviews it's heavier and the brakes aren't as good. The suspension from what I've read has been listed as adequate. Also by price here in the US at least the pricing hasn't been that competitive. It's only a few hundred less than the Suzuki SV650. Suzuki MSRP = 5949.00 and the Hyosung Comet GT650 was going for 5399.00... Mind you that's in US dollars.

Also the Hyosung is carbs while the Suzuki is fuel injected. The Hyosung only meets the Euro2 clean air standards and I think the Suzuki already meets the newer Euro3 standards.

It is an awesome attempt to gain a toe hold in the market. Unfortunately I think they should have driven the pricing a bit more for a bike that is "everything the SV has just slightly less"...