Fair enough. But most of these things can be done easily via the aftermarket. Good they left these out. Not everyone will want them for a more road biased bike that would likely see light gravel at most.

Can mah. Adrian didn't let you take the bike on the NPE?

Air/oil cooled 250 single with 26hp sportbike?

Er.. pass. It's an Indian bike, not japanese. That price I would still stick to the Dominar 400

lol.


Better just pay a little more and get the Kawa 250 or R25/MT25

I get that there are benefits to that cheap simple lightweight engine, like in the Vstrom 250. But in a sportbike?

Even if your stack the vstrom 250@18k against the versys 250@25, that price differential isn't all that much, considering you do get standard factory panniers, crashbars, and foglights thrown in.

Yeah late to the party, and price jacked. Otherwise would have been a hit. I heard quite a lot of cancelled orders for the 800DE because some riders found it too tall. They should have just brought in the 800RE first. Most people don't do that hardcore off road after all.

Seen a few vstrom 800DE but have yet to see any 8s on the road yet.

I think the price is set too high. It's quite a lot more than the old GSX750s which I think many see as a downgrade from.

Then considering the basic z900 that is going for 44k and the upcoming NK800 below 40k. If anything the KTM mill on the NK800 is far better than the Susie twin. The Suzuki twin isn't a bad motor, just that the KTM motor has a little bit more up top.

I've tested the 8s, z900 and NK800 all recently and still seems the 8s looses out on quite some aspects....but mostly on pricing being a CBU unit.

If somehow Suzuki ends up down pricing the 8S, I'm hoping they bring down the upcoming 800RE as well.

10k rebate until end of this month.

Apparently so, thats what Adrian@ Premium sportcycle said. Just use the rebate as DP when I went back to look at the 8S. Although Excell bikers might be different.

The current 3k rebate GScycle is giving for other cfmoto bikes also can be directly applied to DP

Kawazaki just does one better giving you 948cc displacement for the same price.

Just too bad they don't have a full fairing sports tourer...next step up is the 1000sx and another planet's price point.

the current NX500 (and the outgoing cb500x) already got inverted forks and dual front brakes already. This is closer to the Tiger sport 660 though, with 17s. The CB/NX has 19s

I like that they are making sport tourers again. Not everyone wants a tall and overweight ADV. I had thought they are binning the vtwin.

I wonder how they would price this under the Vstrom 800RE. The new bike could be a winner if priced under 45k ....and below the 800RE's 55k. Remember the old vstrom 650 was sold under 40k, not too long ago....the new bike would undoubtedly more expensive than the outgoing vstrom 650.

The chinese are throwing everything in. The clone QJ650SVT is being sold discounted to around 33k new....with brembos and luggage thrown in.


Not going to consider a "touring" bike without cruise control. And with this being ride by wire, weird they left it out. Honda is another idiot of not even including CC on the 750s and even the 1000 hornet. Maybe the new, just announced 1000GT perhaps?

This post has been edited by jaycee1: Nov 10 2025, 02:31 PM

The SV WAS not 30k. Haha. Only the limited run final editions were. Those who bought it at that price scored a good bike.

The SV was selling at 37 to 38k when it was first reintroduced a few years back.

As for cruise control, once you have it, you'd never go back without if you do any distance work, even occasionally.