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I have half a notion to try and sell my oilhead RT and replace it with maybe an F700GS or F800GS. I've ridden the 800GS for a day up just North of Boise and loved the machine.
What say you?
thx.
I don't quite get why the 700 exists here in the US. It's a slightly detuned engine same as the 800, little lower with alloy tubeless tires.
I prefer to use the term retuned rather than "detuned". For a medium weight "street" (not track) bike in the US, peak horsepower is almost meaningless since nobody rides except for brief moments with the engine producing peak horsepower, if even ever. Midrange torque and engine versatility are what matters. If you intend to boonie bash and need the flexibility of spoke wheels and the long travel suspension the F800 is great. If you want good pavement behavior and unpaved roads then take a good hard look at the 700.
I know a person whose name almost everybody on this forum would recognize. He bought an 800. His wife bought a 700. He wishes he had bought one just like hers. He likes the engine better.
...I was parked at the edge of the road, at first in the dust and then in the mud, extracting and inserting inner tubes from and into the rear tire of my F650 where my disdain for tubes turned to hate.
......I'm also looking at a new Ural.
I don't quite get why the 700 exists here in the US.
I am quite happy it is on the North American market.
In late 2013, I traded an 800+ pound Victory Vision 8 Ball for a 2013 F700GS and it re-vitalised my riding.
No surprise that the F700GS is quicker, brakes better, handles better and is better finished than my former Vic. was. With the side Vario Cases, it can also carry more stuff (the 8 Ball Visions did not have the top case).
I don't do off road, my GS is strictly a street bike, I don't need a taller bike and don't want wire spokes.
I like the riding position and it handles the highway at 60 to 70 mph, all day, no problem.
I am 64 and have a bad right knee (arthroscopic surgery in fall 2014) and a sometimes painful back; so, I really appreciate the ease of moving the lighter bike in a parking lot or the garage, etc.
My wife rides so I don't need a big bike for two up.
At 6' - 3" bike seat height is not an issue so that was not a consideration for me as far as bike size goes.
I always said the only way I would have a bike with a chain is if I liked EVERYTHING else about the bike, never thought I'd find that, but the F700GS is that bike, for me.
I have half a notion to try and sell my oilhead RT and replace it with maybe an F700GS or F800GS. I've ridden the 800GS for a day up just North of Boise and loved the machine.
What say you? thx.
I don't want tubes on anything with more than about 30hp. The F8GS should be available with tubeless wheels and the Adv should come with tubeless spoke wheels