XSR900GP

[Potter]

Yeah it's a weird situation, you could have this ex-demo 2023 version in the garage for £8,500 - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155763566499 ... R9iy2syRYw

Or pay another £6,800 for the fancy paint, small fairing version with the fancy exhaust.

Doesn't really seem worth it does it.

[weeksy]

Yeah it's a weird situation, you could have this ex-demo 2023 version in the garage for £8,500 - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155763566499 ... R9iy2syRYw

Or pay another £6,800 for the fancy paint, small fairing version with the fancy exhaust.

Doesn't really seem worth it does it.

£7000 for 203 miles of use.... Heck.... The ex-demo seems remarkably WAY better value.

[Potter]

Yeah it's a weird situation, you could have this ex-demo 2023 version in the garage for £8,500 - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155763566499 ... R9iy2syRYw

Or pay another £6,800 for the fancy paint, small fairing version with the fancy exhaust.

Doesn't really seem worth it does it.

£7000 for 203 miles of use.... Heck.... The ex-demo seems remarkably WAY better value.

It does but it looks rubbish.

All it will do is put me off buying anything because the GP is too expensive compared to the base model and the base model is gopping.

[weeksy]

heathen

[mangocrazy]

All it will do is put me off buying anything because the GP is too expensive compared to the base model and the base model is gopping.

I'd hardly call any of the XSRs 'gopping' - some are more attractive than others I grant you. I can easily get along with the XSR's looks whereas most of the MT range I find visually 'challenging', no matter how good the bikes may be.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

All it will do is put me off buying anything because the GP is too expensive compared to the base model and the base model is gopping.

I'd hardly call any of the XSRs 'gopping' - some are more attractive than others I grant you. I can easily get along with the XSR's looks whereas most of the MT range I find visually 'challenging', no matter how good the bikes may be.

No, the XSR is goping, it's so ugly I bought a Honda instead.

[mangocrazy]

Most Hondas are gopping, to be fair. That may or may not include yours.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Most Hondas are gopping, to be fair. That may or may not include yours.

Mine's a thing of beauty, it's also fucking mental.

[Bustaspoke]

I'd hardly call any of the XSRs 'gopping' - some are more attractive than others I grant you. I can easily get along with the XSR's looks whereas most of the MT range I find visually 'challenging', no matter how good the bikes may be.

Apart from the 'GP' I''d call all the MT & XSR range visually challenging,so visually challenging to spend money on one!
They're the opposite of a Ducati,probably excellent bike's to own but so ugly I'd put a cover over it

[mangocrazy]

I'm a bit bemused by all the flak for the non-GP XSR900. So what we're saying is that putting a half-fairing on a bike and giving it an 80's Marlboro fag packet paint job turns a bike from gopping to desirable? The frame, swingarm, tank, wheels, suspension, brakes, electronics and dash are all exactly the same, but putting a posh frock on it completely changes the way you view it? Weird, I call it...

Anyway, here are the pair we're talking about - both images from Yamaha's web site and both from the same side view.

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and the gopping version...

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[weeksy]

I still prefer the blue or the black... but i honestly don't see what others really dislike about the bottom one.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

The faired one is as hoping as the unfaired, but a 2023 one for £9K is a bargain, but I'm not yet old enough to buy a bike just because it's a bargain

[mangocrazy]

I'd prefer the standard one to have red wheels, as that would give it a visual lift, and I actually prefer the black frame/swingarm over the plain ali of the GP model.

[Yorick]

I hate the backend and would never buy a big bike without a fairing anyway.

[MrLongbeard]

I still prefer the blue or the black... but i honestly don't see what others really dislike about the bottom one.

The seat, it's the only thing that makes me dry heave on that.
It's 80's-esque, how the pillion portion wraps around the subframe, it's chunky / disproportioned, just all wrong IMHO.

[Dodgy69]

I prefer this.

[MrLongbeard]

80's Marlboro fag packet paint job.......

........Makes anything 100% cooler.

[Yorick]

80's Marlboro fag packet paint job.......

........Makes anything 100% cooler.

I'll raise you the Rothmans colours

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[weeksy]

I still prefer the blue or the black... but i honestly don't see what others really dislike about the bottom one.

The seat, it's the only thing that makes me dry heave on that.
It's 80's-esque, how the pillion portion wraps around the subframe, it's chunky / disproportioned, just all wrong IMHO.

I mean lets be honest here, you can get a seat re-profiled and re-covered for what, £300 ? That surely can't be a complete deal breaker for people.

[Yorick]

I still prefer the blue or the black... but i honestly don't see what others really dislike about the bottom one.

The seat, it's the only thing that makes me dry heave on that.
It's 80's-esque, how the pillion portion wraps around the subframe, it's chunky / disproportioned, just all wrong IMHO.

I mean lets be honest here, you can get a seat re-profiled and re-covered for what, £300 ? That surely can't be a complete deal breaker for people.

Doesn't look like it could take a pillion.