Tiger v Bandit v Ducati900 v Kwak ZX-7R

[Suzuki Al]

In this month's Ride they tested the above bikes.

1998 ZX-7R - 14,000 miles
2000 (old model) Bandit 12 - 11,150 miles
2001 Ducati 900 - 8,400 miles
2000 Tiger - 7,550 miles

The winner? Yes, you've guessed right, the Bandit 12 and it was the cheapest.

Tiger - they liked it, but commented on the vague front end and the notchy gearbox.
"Overall we were impressed. You're getting a bike that will whisk you to work each day but also take you and the other half to France in comfort. What's more the Triumph has the build quality of a tank".

Bandit - "gearbox is superb .... extremely user friendly.......The Bandit's a tough old brute.......our test bike had stood up to the rigours of the British weather admirably.....front end far more planted than the Triumph.......this bike is a real surprise".

[alan]

the bandit 12 is on my bikes to have wish list.....

but i'm happy with my klr at the moment though:)

[XTreme]

the bandit 12 is on my bikes to have wish list.....


Stupid Boy! :Yen:

[Robbie]

In this month's Ride they tested the above bikes.

Tiger - they liked it, but commented on the vague front end and the notchy gearbox.
"Overall we were impressed. You're getting a bike that will whisk you to work each day but also take you and the other half to France in comfort. What's more the Triumph has the build quality of a tank".



Gearbox needs about 10,000 miles to losen up and oil type makes a differance.
as a 2000 model was it the 900i? later 955i have better damping and the 05 has revised front end, also fork oil in the tiger is a bugger to change and makes a big differance it should be changed at 12k or 2 years so a lot of low mileage bikes are running around with old oil.
Ride is the only comic I take any notice of, (and thats not a lot) they seam to be the most honest and least opinionated. The old editer had a Tiger for a year and came on one of our runs, he was an OK guy, (he bought lunch for 14)

[Suzuki Al]

It was the 885cc model, so I assume it was the 900i that they tested.

I too like Ride, even though they haven't tested the XT660 yet.:o:

[Suzuki Al]

the bandit 12 is on my bikes to have wish list.....


You won't find a better bike in any class for the money, or even for £50% more in my opinion - the best bike I have ever owned. They are very unfashionable and look very dated these days, but beneath its rather ordinary, old skool skin lurks a bike that'll run with anything.

[Stuart Fordyce]

You won't find a better bike in any class for the money, or even for £50% more in my opinion - the best bike I have ever owned. They are very unfashionable and look very dated these days, but beneath its rather ordinary, old skool skin lurks a bike that'll run with anything.

Since when were Bandits unfashionable? I see loads of them about here, and as many are B12's as B6's. That, and the local WH Smiths or Borders usually has many magazines devoted to the hobby of streetfightering your motorbike (and never any TBM :mad::devil::(). Also the naked ones still cut it in the looks department, and the faired ones were always hideous...

For a big, cheap, rorty roadbike it represents terrific value for money, and apparently is very tuneable. It doesn't mean I'll be buying one though...

[XTreme]

Am I the only one who finds a test between a ZX-7R, Bandit 12, Ducati 900, and a Tiger to be very odd?
After all they're four different categories: road based dualsport, sports tourer, sportsbike, and musclebike.
Sounds like they were the only bikes they could get hold of at the time and they had a deadline to meet.
Course there's plenty of terminally gormless people who believe anything the Mags say. :faintthud

[Suzuki Al]

It was a "what can you get for £3 grand" used bike test.

Makes sense to me.:)