IS the GS any good in town?

[Warthog]

The GS is essentially fine except for one gripe I have: As with all the tall Trailie types I've owned, (TDM, Dommie, and GS) they are quite wide up top, so mirrors and bars are just the right height and width to clip van mirrors. These are unfortunately exactly the vehicles that, being wider, lead to narrower gaps when you filter, and so the exacerbate the problem...

 

[JohnC]

The GS is essentially fine except for one gripe I have: As with all the tall Trailie types I've owned, (TDM, Dommie, and GS) they are quite wide up top, so mirrors and bars are just the right height and width to clip van mirrors. These are unfortunately exactly the vehicles that, being wider, lead to narrower gaps when you filter, and so the exacerbate the problem...

Agreed

 

[Steptoe]

When in town, never wear brown .

Gs is great for riding over the reservations/kerbs at kingsway and Aldwych.

Apart from that, i'd get a suzuki bergman

 

[Fanum]

I use mine a lot in cities all over the midlands, as well as london; its great in traffic (a tad wide but not too much of a problem) but it does have a tendency to get very hot if the traffic's stalled. Anyone else get this problem? What do you do apart from park up and let it cool off? I've had the gauge up to 7 and touching 8 bars, and it wasn't happy!

7, 8 , it's fine.....mine does it in heavy traffic.....ignore that 101 lass, she lives oop north and they haven't had much traffic oop there since the dray carts stopped delivering warm pee to the pubs

Just make sure there's plenty of oil, and if you're doing it regularly, bung some 20/50 in rather than 15/50 or lower.....

I keep my panniers on pretty much all the time....and I filter

What you lose in narrowness, you gain in grunt and the high up position....plus they're so flick-able in between cars at speed it's silly

A scoot with a boot???

Puhleeease!!!!

 

[Commuter]

Commuter

Before leaving the "Island" as I refer to it now, I used 2 GS's for trips to work. Junction 12 of the M1 to Hyde Park Corner on a daily basis and then Holloway road to Hyde Park Corner on my second GSA. (Accident in between wrote of first bike). It is capable of all London offers.

I had used a Deauville, Pan and a F650: the GS was the most fun I had and I never had a problem using it through all the months of even bad weather.

This was the only Bike I enjoyed getting on over the weekends after over 500miles each week, I had never had that before.

Enjoy your ride.

Nick

 

[(RIP) Kaister]

over on this island they squeeze 3 lanes of traffic where 2 would be better - so i'm looking for a commuter alternative.

it depends how you commute ?

if you want to get to the front at every set of lights - forget it.
if you want to flick between lanes then its ok.

SV650 - no fairing,flat bars is perfect.

 

[judge]

A scoot with a boot???

Puhleeease!!!!

You're justifying a keeper, I'm validating a depature

That having been said I won't replace it with another if I have a commute into Lunnon, and I'll never sully the 'keeper' with such a devaluing as a 13 mile slog in heavy un-forgiving traffic. And if I have a coomute like last time 80 miles of mainly motorway each way then perhaps an RT joins the stable?

And I'm not alone either, look at what the IT God says.

Apart from that, i'd get a suzuki bergman

 

[GS TRV]

The GS is great for just about everything but hustling about in traffic - it's just too lardy and wide.

My Strom kills it.

 

[Butler]

Rochester to town everyday, no problems.
Top box only though

 

[EugenerGS]

I do understand what people say about a big scoot - I had a T-Max for a while, but had to get rid of it one day when 2 sv650s pulled up alongside me and started a conversation across me... like I was invisible. Then I realised I really DID want to get back to a 'proper' bike.

Scoot's are great and incredibly functional, but man are they boooooring!

GS test ride, here I come!

 

[Steptoe]

Scoot's are great and incredibly functional, but man are they boooooring!

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Not as boring as having to commute to work I have to walk 20 ft every morning, i know how you feel . It's a real pisser when it's winter and raining .

 

[LOLGEOFF]

Not as boring as having to commute to work I have to walk 20 ft every morning, i know how you feel . It's a real pisser when it's winter and raining .

Yeah..... but what's your chances of fiddling with the office bird, at the firms Christmas do?

And your wife doesn't count...

 

[Timolgra]

C'mon, be honest. if you're commuting in traffic and towns on GS it's to pose, feel superior, ride up kerbs and look at your reflection in shop windows.
So all in all, the perfect bike