SV11 VFL

[ray1151]

After looking for a long while and finally doing a test ride we are looking seriously at buying a proper green one. Does anyone have any history on the above plate?
Thanks
Ray & Julia

[StickyOne]

Hello Ray and Julia.
Welcome.
You're in the right place for any information.
I hope it turns out ok for you.
Barry

[O.C.]

welcome along ray, you'll find endless good information and help on here plus a good amount of p☆ss taking too, and all in very good taste.

Enjoy your new bike, Green is fastest colour by the way.      

[moayling]

Great bike Ray, especially in green. Sorry but no info on the reg.

Mo

[PRD]

Welcome. Incorrect info on here, the black BMW's are the fastest.

[zedmeister]

The grey ones are the classiest, TBH whatever colour you choose you can't go wrong, 

[Charlie farley]

All wrong sparkly moon blue are the very fastest 

[Icefever]

I was told that the green ones were the fastest that's why I bought an 11 plate one 

Any way up...welcome from another newbie Jay & Julia ....it's a grand forum....I'll tell what there brilliant bikes.

What's the condition of it??...mileage?..tyres?.

Brian.

[Tay]

Welcome!!

I'm not the newbie anymore !!

[ray1151]

Many thanks, I've been studying the forum for a while, looks like a great resource, already got a good idea of how to set  up the suspension for a fat bloke & pillion plus luggage. The bike's at Daytona in Ruislip, 1 owner 9700 on the clock. Looking at the government site the last mot ran out in May 2016. We just need to do 1 more test ride with a top box on before we commit but we both love the bike so if it's not this one it'll be another (green) one. Been riding a Guzzi Stelvio for the last 8 years so it's quite a change.

[StickyOne]

If it's any help Ray, my first ever test ride on a GTR was on a new one at Daytona where you're getting yours from.
Although I didn't buy from them (I couldn't afford a new one!) and they had no second hand ones at the time, I would have had no hesitation in doing so as I had a great experience of the customer service side of things from them.
Their other shop, which is across the road and round the corner at the traffic lights, is a Goldwing dealer. I had a Goldwing at the time, and the chap their had no hesitation in spending a good while with me sussing out a problem that I was experiencing with it.
They ended up gaining nothing in monetary terms from me, but I have put their name about a bit, and my son's friend ended up buying a smaller second hand bike from them and he's had no problems whatsoever.
Good luck.

[ray1151]

That's good to know. We went to test ride the green one but they had problems with it and lent us the demonstrator with under 400 miles on the clock. With distance touring, St Petersburg in 2015, it is very important my wife feels comfortable with the top box fitted, hence the hesitation. I can't think there would be a huge difference between the two bikes handling and performance wise. Except as the demonstrator is blue the green one would obviously be faster😉

[beegee]

Very welcome here😉
After my first ride, I was sold too😜

[kwarrgtr]

I saw that one the other day when I was trying a Africa Twin around the corner at HGB. It looks very nice. I noticed the crash bobbins sticking out the fairings and that has tempted me to remove my R&G Bars and replace with the bobbins as they look a lot nicer than the bars

[ray1151]

The new Africa twin is a nice looking bike, Hondas are great for going to work on but I just don't find them exciting.
After another row with Piagio I went to test ride the Crossdresser 1200, very nice, handled well but there's just something missing.

Anyway the reason we looked in HGB was that we just put a deposit down on the gtr.
We rode up to Oxford on the M40 and then back on the A roads via Aylesbury and Amersham, couple of issues;-
I did a .gov check on the bike and found out the last tax ran out May 16, so I knew it had been standing a while,
the brakes were full of air and the clutch pull decreased as we went along, finally leaving about 1 1/2" of pull, again probably air/duff fluid
after weaving all over the M40 at speeds of up to 70mph (ish) we pulled off and found the rear suspension adjustment seized
the glove box also kept opening randomly
when we stopped back at the shop an oil leak started, had a look coming from the sump gasket
also important the co-pilot really didn't like the seating position, on later investigation we have found MFW pegs that will drop her feet 2"
we both agreed the seat has had it and so will get it rebuilt once we've done a few miles, got a 600 mile trip coming soon.

Daytona as already mentioned were very good and will fix all the problems as well as doing an oil service, fitting a K&N and gps bracket.
Hope to collect next Saturday, meanwhile I have ordered the usual hugger/fenda extenda/duck tail combo, I went onto Pyramid Plastics own site was just about to press the button and the googled it, went to intobikes.co.uk and saved £35.

Off to the garage now to take all the saleable bits off the Stelvio, Mistral pipe anyone?