Pushes to crime
I start the engine, the sound is less sanitized than on the TDM or the Caponord. The saddle is lower than I feared, I engage the 1st. Box is soft like all Suzuki I’ve tried.
From the first hectometers, I understand that the city is not the domain of predilection for the engine of the V-Strom: at low speed it knocks and is all in all quite unpleasant.. As the engines of the TDM, the Multistrada or the Caponord know how to be forgotten in town, as much that of the V-Strom encourages to stay above 4,500 or 5,000 rpm. It promises…
I cross Toulon to join the covered river that I am up to the foot of the Col du Corps de Garde. The road narrows, begins to turn dry and I quickly realize that it is not made for these very small roads either. The on-off side of its engine means that it is not easy to take turns on a trickle of gas and if you feel that the power is there, it is obvious that it needs a little more space to express oneself fully. To take the pins, I hesitate between the second which knocks or the 1st which screams and which requires a careful dosage on re-acceleration … Not to mention the fact that once in two, when entering the 1st, I find myself in neutral … Another motorcycle that will gain by losing a tooth in the gearbox output pinion.
Side comfort, nothing to say for the saddle, the suspensions on the other hand have a large displacement generating a transfer of masses sometimes disturbing. But it also helps to erase the imperfections of the road. After the Broussan there are a few pieces of straight lines, short but sufficient for the engine to express itself … and it becomes magical. Indeed from the threshold of 4500-5000 rpm the cavalry arrives and I partly find the engine of the LRT. The extension allows not to juggle too much with the box. At the turn, my first impression of the braking is confirmed: much less biting than that of the TDM, it is good but nothing more. The engine brake makes up part of the difference but I prefer that of the Yam.
In Ste Anne d’Evenos I take the N8 towards Beausset which I cross to join the Castellet circuit … I know in advance that on the climb it will be severe, and I have a banana when I arrive in the 1st pin. SCRITCH !!! The footrest was remembered to my good memory, the ground clearance for a trail is not so good … Too bad, since I have to I will sway, just to take full advantage of this engine in its favorite range of use … Up to the top I stuff myself, the bike is easy to put on the angle and the turns are linked at high speeds … The slightest stretch of straight line is a pretext to blow up this engine in the turns. In front of the circuit I turn around, to go down again, gently rolling up. And even winding a simple rotation of the right wrist is enough to forget about any car.
Crossing the Gorges d’Ollioules allows me to have a little more fun before taking the motorway to Toulon. After a small peak – on the German motorway as they say in the magazines – I stall in 6th at 5500 rpm at 160. I have traveled a little over 60 km when I return the keys to the seller.
In short, a pity that its engine is not more civilized at the bottom, even if it is true that its side "pushes to crime" is endearing … Very at ease on beautiful viral roads, the V-Strom l t is much less on very small roads more or less correctly paved. In fact my ideal bike would be a Multistrada part cycle, with its engine at "low" speed and that of the V-Strom at the top, the comfort of the Caponord and the braking of the TDM. How am i difficult ?
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