My wife and I are pretty much the last two people you'd expect to ever ride motorcycles. Then one day this summer her brother got one, naturally wanted to show it off to us, and I, at least, fell in love. Long story short we took the MSF class, got our licenses, and purchased a bike (Hyosung GV250).
The original plan was to share it between the two of us, but naturally that lasted about 2 weeks. Enter a second GV250.
So far they've been great bikes. Mine has about 1,400 miles on it now and hers has just over 500. The fastest either of us has taken one of them is ~90mph, only for a few seconds, but the bike felt like it could do at least a little more. MPG has been hovering around the high 50s so far, sometimes creeping into the 60s for both bikes. I'm sure if my commute to and from work was not 14 miles at 70-75mph each way, that would be better.
The main selling point for these over the V-Star 250 (which we were also considering) is the presence of an actual gas gauge, as well as a 28 (instead of ~20-21) hp engine. I've already added a tach to mine; next up will be a head temp gauge because I do find myself stuck in thick traffic from time to time, living in southern California.
To tie this into the general theme of oil, both bikes got changes at ~100 miles to clean the break-in [censored] out of them, again at ~500, I did mine again at 1,000 and plan to leave it for 3k from there on out. They initially saw Supertech non energy-conserving 10W-40 before being switched to Rotella T. That's what I plan to continue using in these until they die.
The original plan was to share it between the two of us, but naturally that lasted about 2 weeks. Enter a second GV250.
So far they've been great bikes. Mine has about 1,400 miles on it now and hers has just over 500. The fastest either of us has taken one of them is ~90mph, only for a few seconds, but the bike felt like it could do at least a little more. MPG has been hovering around the high 50s so far, sometimes creeping into the 60s for both bikes. I'm sure if my commute to and from work was not 14 miles at 70-75mph each way, that would be better.
The main selling point for these over the V-Star 250 (which we were also considering) is the presence of an actual gas gauge, as well as a 28 (instead of ~20-21) hp engine. I've already added a tach to mine; next up will be a head temp gauge because I do find myself stuck in thick traffic from time to time, living in southern California.
To tie this into the general theme of oil, both bikes got changes at ~100 miles to clean the break-in [censored] out of them, again at ~500, I did mine again at 1,000 and plan to leave it for 3k from there on out. They initially saw Supertech non energy-conserving 10W-40 before being switched to Rotella T. That's what I plan to continue using in these until they die.
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