22-04-14, 09:12 PM
(22-04-14, 08:56 PM)Stupid Luke link Wrote: I tried a Gen 2 and the z1000sx 2014 on the same day and both are, to my mind flawed bikes trying to be too many things to too many people.
I bought a Gen 1 for everything else.
Ironic isn't it. Here are two bikes you got the impression were trying to be too many things to too many people. And yet you wound up with one of the best "all rounders" there is, and yet it was pure accident that this is what the gen 1 turned out to be, as Yamaha's marketing was "son of R1" - pretty much portraying it as a hooligan streetbike, which it most definitely isn't, leastways, not in standard form.
I haven't ridden one, but got the impression from write-ups that the Z-SX would be too similar a machine to the gen 1 to go from one to the other. What made the gen 1 better in your eyes?
And from what everyone here says, I thought the FZ1 was meant to be more sports focussed than the gen 1, and yet you say it was trying to be too many things - I thought it's place was as a sports bike for people who didn't want the cramped, stretched-arms position of an R1/Blade/GSXR etc.