rag review S-10
 

nicked again from ukgser. maybe a repost.
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/Ne...ld-first-test/

Interesting article, My Thoughts from a recent test ride of a 1200 gs was just how awful the bike rode : vague steering, rubbish suspension souless engine and I really wasnt impressed.

The Ducati multistrada was in a different league and will no doubt steel lots of sports bikes sales.

The New Super Ten has every chance of out selling both bikes as it looks like it will bridge the gap between hyper adventure bike and bavarian tractor.:southpark:

Yamaha just need to get Ewan and Charley to do another tour using Super Tens and they will sell like warm cakes

Roland Brown has done a quick review of the S10 in the Sunday Times ingear sunday paper mag supplement. ~He seems to like it , only critising the price and lack of in motion suspension adjustment ala GS / Duc MS. and that heated grips should be included FOC.

Agree 100%. Ordered some for mine.....�285.....:107:

They are so expensive due to the electronic throttle control being integral. To fit as original equipment would have cost Yamaha only about another �20 and the end user probably �50.
Still, I suppose if the throttle controler breaks, I will have a spare ???

:107::107: WTF!! Just for heated grips???!!!! :chairfall:

I see Yamaha really have pitched the S-10 into the Touratw*t/BMUU market


Out of my league - plus there's no way I'd pay more for a bike than I would for a car!!

Cars are for girls - JMo & Piglet excepted of course.

Besides, the sad truth is that this will probably be the last big bike I buy before I die !

Full test of the s10 in BIKE this month....

I'm just jealous I can't afford to spend (or even justify) that sort of money on a bike:crybaby2: even though it would be a tax deductable expense!

Thats what I like, good old fashioned jealousy....

wait a few years there will be plenty low millage examples (Ray's excluded)
going for less than half list price.

Nipped up to CMC Chesterfield Monday night after work to see the silver Yamaha press fleet one they had in there for a few days. Being a gurlie on my own, dressed in work gear driving barely �500 worth of car I wasn't worthy of much attention and didn't even get to have a sit on it.....

Which is a shame as when i have the cash for doing some serious mileage tours and want a bike to do it on this one will be top of my list. Although I wouldn't be using it for any serious off roading the styling of the alternatives don't appeal (remember it has to have a tuning fork emblem on it), even though an FJ or TDM would be a sensible choice.

I think it would be better in blue than the silver I saw as the plastics/fairing at the front appeared rather a large expanse without anything to break them up. Loved the wheels, disks, brakes, engine, frame, seat, tank. Tail unit not bad for a modern bike. Headlights seemed a ickle bit small in proportion to the rest of the bike, but i am a sucker for the 'frown' of the TDM900 and had hoped it would be a little more like that - though may be better when they are on. The exhaust was hidden behind the pannier which was a blessing from the little I could see of it, but that is the case on nearly all new bike these days and it would have to go in the bin ASAP for me.

Just my two'pennorth.

Selina