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Offline kwackboy

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Re: Name the new model
« Reply #40 on: December 24, 2017, 12:48:21 »
I prefer the nick names and often I have customers refer to their bikes as such . It's rather simple .  :shrug:

Looks like Pee-wee is in the running , good choice .  :thumb: can't help but wonder though .. what if a kiwi bought one ..?  :haha:
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Re: Name the new model
« Reply #41 on: December 24, 2017, 13:19:01 »
What if they bring out a Triple and we have to call it a Tree?

The real answer of course is that Suzuki haven't made a V-Strom since 2011 anyway  :stirpot:

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Re: Name the new model
« Reply #42 on: December 24, 2017, 14:56:56 »
Quote from: Fat Rat on December 21, 2017, 19:43:59
How about 'looks like a Chinese piece of shit with the daftest headlight yet'.

you took the words out of my mouth, the other one I considered was "shyte"
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Re: Name the new model
« Reply #43 on: December 24, 2017, 22:00:46 »
Quote from: MartinW on December 23, 2017, 08:56:08
Sold any yet Diver?

Not to my knowledge.  :shrug:
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Re: Name the new model
« Reply #44 on: December 25, 2017, 14:16:58 »
Sideways on, it does look a bit strange around the headlight. Reviews indicate a gutless motor and no redeeming features. Typical of Suzuki 'parts bin' approach. Not a patch on the 300 Versys and years behind the 390 KTM. 
Which is a pity.
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Re: Name the new model
« Reply #45 on: December 27, 2017, 08:40:26 »
Why the F... made Suzuki place a parallel twin (PT) into their DL250 and then give it a V-Strom badge? Sad that Suzuki didn't have a 250cc V motor for the V-Strom, but even a certain Chinese bike company came up with a 250cc in a V format. Why not buy it from them, as they do with a lot of other / Chinese made spare parts?
No, the DL250 parallel twin (PT) is basically a 1/4 Veek engine capacity @ 1/2 the looks of the Veek and @ 2/3 of the size....
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Offline Rich:-)

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Re: Name the new model
« Reply #46 on: December 27, 2017, 09:35:10 »
Yup. And Honda managed a 125 v-twin once.

Naming conventions are strange...
Where did the term parallel twin come from... We don't refer to IL4's are parallel 4's do we.
.. And technically they aren't IL4's either, they are transverse 4s.
So the 250 is actually a transverse twin, so it's a TT strom.
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Re: Name the new model
« Reply #47 on: December 27, 2017, 09:58:46 »
Quote from: Paul_Nicholson on December 22, 2017, 08:26:13
Isn't that what they call young gay men?

That's twink, I believe :)

Has anyone on the forum actually got the 250 model?
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Re: Name the new model
« Reply #48 on: December 27, 2017, 10:40:48 »
It looks like there are just 9 registered so far .....

https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=DL250&commit=Search

Probably all by dealers :)

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Re: Name the new model
« Reply #49 on: December 27, 2017, 11:25:58 »
Gone for minion as I am Dave and its got little to do with vee, wee, Veek or glee.

( Too late I know, but thought of " leak " as its a bit if a drip?  - and yes I can blame that on a head cold  :roll: )
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Re: Name the new model
« Reply #50 on: December 27, 2017, 12:17:00 »
One on my works' ones will be in that figure as one was just 'Built' and put on a stage with the others and the Red one got registered as a demo.
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Re: Name the new model
« Reply #51 on: December 27, 2017, 12:29:25 »
Rich:- a "Parallel Twin" because the cylinders are 'parallel' , next to each other. In the British twins of old the pistons went up and down together so that even the pistons and cranks were parallel although one was on the power stoke and other one was on the exhaust stroke (not exactly but you get the drift). The actual layout of the cylinders is not as important as the relative position of the crankpins so that engines such as the Yamaha TDM fire exactly like a V engine. Even V engines are not all the same.  Years ago when air-cooled the benefit of a V engine was cooling and it's narrow shape, however the disbenefit was the need for an elongated chasssis.

The common Japanese four cyclinder engine is in fact referred to as an "inline four" across the frame. Unlike the Henderson which was an in line engine, in line with the frame.
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Re: Name the new model
« Reply #52 on: December 27, 2017, 16:35:52 »
Mmmm, Henderson..... anybody see Chris Ireland's NSU-engined "Henderson-type" one off? A thing of beauty.
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Re: Name the new model
« Reply #53 on: December 28, 2017, 05:48:50 »
Searching on Google has produced a 250cc V-Strom with a V-twin engine!!
https://www.about-china-atvs.com/zongshen-V-Strom.html.  A top speed of 120 km/h is listed in the specs...  Almost too fast use in England and all their speed cameras plus country lanes :stirpot:
Guess there is a slim chance that Suzuki could wake up and smell the roses.... yeh if pigs could fly, maybe one day.
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Re: Name the new model
« Reply #54 on: December 28, 2017, 09:02:51 »
The filter is modifying Gert's link above .....

Change Strom to Storm and it will work :)

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Re: Name the new model
« Reply #55 on: December 28, 2017, 15:57:36 »
Thanks for the correction. If that does not work, Google Zongshen V-Strom 250cc
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Re: Name the new model
« Reply #56 on: December 28, 2017, 16:07:20 »
Oh my Lord. Isn't that a beauty of a bike  :slap_my_arse_hippo:
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Re: Name the new model
« Reply #57 on: December 28, 2017, 16:38:08 »
Quote from: Gert on December 28, 2017, 15:57:36
Thanks for the correction. If that does not work, Google Zongshen V-Strom 250cc
Except that the filter changed that message too lol you need to search for STORM not STROM
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Re: Name the new model
« Reply #58 on: December 29, 2017, 05:50:10 »
talk about double meaning..  :crazy:
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Re: Name the new model
« Reply #59 on: January 05, 2018, 22:00:10 »
So, P-Wee it is. Just in time for our first owner.

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