30-11-13, 08:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 30-11-13, 08:39 PM by nick crisp.)
(28-11-13, 10:31 PM)Drax link Wrote: Took a test ride one one of these a few weeks ago. Everyone is raving about it but i didn't like it. I wasn't keen on the riding position but....that snatchy throttle caught me out a few times especially coming out of corners.
Jumped straight on a Street Triple & was a much better ride - but not as good as the FZ1 test ride.
Great price but once you start adding a few extras (flyscreen / bellypan etc) it then starts becoming an £8k bike.
Hi and welcome to the forum Drax.
Re. the new MV Agusta Rivale: "...this bike also benefits from MV's increasing expertise with the triple's fuelling. An occasional touch of imprecision shows it's still not perfect, but generally the MV responds so cleanly that I'm not conscious of it." (Bike magazine)
So just goes to show things don't have to be this way with FI bikes.
There's a guy on the US FZ1 site who has just bought an MT-09 (FZ-09 over there) who says he got rid of most of the snatchiness by just taking up all the slack on the throttle cables, so might be worth trying if anyone buys one.
Regarding the extras you'd spend in modding to your own taste - wouldn't most people do that to any bike they bought? So the low starting price is still a bonus.
