Portrait Suzuki GSF 1200 Bandit

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Portrait Suzuki GSF 1200 Bandit

Portrait Suzuki GSF 1200 Bandit

The secret of their success

Huh, why secret? It is clear that the 1200 Suzuki Bandit is so popular because of its price. Or?

Yes. No. So yes and no. Perhaps. Maybe not. Because nobody orders? with the Chinese? Sweet and sour chicken breast just because it is two euros cheaper than Peking duck if it doesn’t like chicken breasts. Likewise, nobody will order a bandit if they don’t want a bandit, cheap or cheap. Means: If the goods do not meet the taste, the price does not cost anything either. An example? The GSX 1100 G, also from Suzuki. Same category, same engine, same price range, even with cardan. And, honestly, a real flop. The most attractive thing about this structure was the price? 1996 around 15,000 marks. The big bandit, on the other hand, has been pulling people’s money out of their pockets more often than anyone else since that year, initially just under 14,500 marks, now 7,850 euros. Even the name fits.
In Germany alone, the GSF 1200 N and GSF 1200 S made the Suzuki tills ring 30,000 times. 30000. Of these, the competition is ?? even the in-house ?? as far away as the Haueneberstein football club from the Champions League. For comparison: a Kawasaki ZRX 1100/1200 has only found 6600 buyers since 1997. The Yamaha XJR 1200/1300 has produced around 8500 units since 1995, and only 1100 customers wanted to make friends with the Honda’s CB 1000 between 1993 and 1996.
But they cost and cost more, at least a thousand. So the price after all? Sweet and sour chicken breast! And: Madonna and Stockhausen. Why can’t the pop flute sing about its records fast enough while the ancestor of electronic music is even further away from the charts than the football club Haueneberstein is from the Champions League final? It’s not because the singer’s records are cheaper than the composer’s. But the crowd confuses its sound works with noise. The crowd treats Madonna’s hits differently. She can sing along with them. Et voilà, the bandit’s secret of success: If you want to land a hit, you mustn’t polarize, you have to compose pleasingly. And Suzuki composed nicely. True to the swinger motto “everything can, nothing has to”, the Bandit is open to everything and open to everyone.
The accessory catalogs for them are thicker than New York’s phone books. It starts with A like anti-lock braking system dummy sticker, goes through H like rear wheel lighting, colored, and ends with Z like cylinder rib polishing brush. Ergo, the Bandit promises success, which rarely works like this with other partners: Everyone can bend it as they would like.
1.96 meters, part-time cashier with wanderlust? Great, the bandit fits. Wrapped in full cladding and hung with a case system including a back-leaning topcase, it rolls just as easily to the North Cape as to Haueneberstein.
1.58 meters, philosophy professor, two left hands and streetfighter airs? Great, the bandit fits. Tail shorter and higher, a pair of noble footrests screwed on and a devil’s head sticker on the tank. Then there is a lamp mask with an evil eye, and the bandit, this motorcycle without edges, comes along more terrifying than “The Critique of Pure Reason”.
1.78 meters, employee, two children, prefabricated house and only really break out on the weekend? Great, the bandit fits. Just leave it as it is, sit on it and drive. Works.
Works reliably, inconspicuously, without any real weakness. Or impressive, spectacular, with real strength. Because depending on your preference, the air / oil-cooled four-cylinder scrapes gently and smoothly at half throttle through the lower speed range. Or the muscle, which always pushes a few horsepower more than the specified 98, hits the pilot with the instruments in front of the visor when accelerating violently. And if you want to hit the no-frills round clocks really hard on the head, please: tuners that are guaranteed to elicit 150 hp and more from the unit that heated up the GSX-R 1100 between 1986 and 1991 can probably even be found in the phone book of Haueneberstein.
In addition: The Bandit engine is not a smooth block in a water jacket with the charm of a prefabricated building. No, this motor doesn’t just have pressure, it has charm, with cooling fins (very important!) And is simply beautiful. No different from the rest. Classic, but not old-fashioned. Timeless, that is the bandit’s line, and most people like it. Because even those who don’t have one have at least nothing against them.
A.It’s probably also true that at a price of 10,500 euros nobody would be interested in the bandit.

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