Picture-in-picture comparison between '14 and '17 model

[bosnjo]

Here is very cool GIF animation to compare '14 and '17 models. It clearly shows the difference in the beak design, size and positioning. Enjoy!

[greywolf]

Brilliant would have been better than cold for the site translator in this case. The really interesting thing for me is how most of the bike is unchanged so most aftermarket stuff will fit. It looks like the cowling and windscreen area and can end are the only real changes. It's a lot like the change between the K3 and K4 Vee.

[bosnjo]

Well, forgot about autocorrection on this forum. I'd never call such an animation "cold".

[vstroman]

Looking forward to seeing and test riding the new 1000 at some stage, that little bit of extra torque and better brakes would be great.

[superteso]

can I say that I like too much the old one? 

[Fat Rat]

Since when does a beak need a redesign? It just needs setting on fire.

[sharealike]

Nice animation. Thanks.

I rode one at the weekend. Posted in walk round thread.

More dolphin nose than beak to me but still no bottom in it for a bit of substance. Pyramid plastics could make one.

Front mud guard is a full one and reaches well below the lower engine cowl. Suggests keeping it clean down there could be easy with little or no road muck getting to the front pipe. Well done Suzuki. Fact they now manage without an oil cooler down in the muck also better. Thanks again.

I didn't count but has the later bike got more spokes? Animation suggests twice as many. I found the alloys finished with a nice gloss paint which would easily give up its muck. The finish to the casting rough before painting and nooks and crannies where spokes join hub were going to be tedious things to get clean though.

Once on the move you know straight away how its a development of what was already a brilliant concept. The engines character and the well designed frame and suspension shine through. Far better adventure styled bike than all the new metal off the drawing board stuff from Japan or Europe every year.

[bosnjo]

I didn't count but has the later bike got more spokes? Animation suggests twice as many.

Well, it looks to me whoever made the animation didn't "erase" anterior picture, so what we see is spokes of both bikes on the end of animation. The new model is just put on the top of the old one so we see "old" spokes through "new" wheel. I hope I'm right because it's already hard to keep the rear wheel clean.

[sharealike]

I wasn't being picky. Seen a bike recently with pairs of thinner spokes. Obviously no the Stroms. Just dug my brochure out to count them (which was a bad thing because its doing its trick in continuing to sell it to me even after I left the showroom). Guessing what's out of sight in pictures looks to be ten spokes each in front and rear wheel so perhaps the same wheels as for 2014 to 2016?