Where do they get this info from?

[Lonewolf]

I honestly don't know whether to get angry or laugh. I've just been reading Mays edition of RIDE and they have a feature on the top 20 sports tourers & tourers...........can you guess where the GTR came? It dragged itself out of the depths to just scrape in at number  20!!!

It was beaten by the Honda Deuville for God's sake which romped in as the14th best tourer . The BMW K1600 came in as the best bike in this class, (well, there's a surprise!)

Amongst other negative factors the GTR apparently suffers from....

1/  Skipping gears. (Never experienced that, nor do I know anyone who has).

2/  The remote fob can stop working, (I've heard that is possible if the battery goes flat but never personally experienced it).

3/ Final drive failure's. (Never experienced that, nor do I know anyone who has).

4/ Fiddly pannier fittings which the mag says are easy to get wrong. (How are they fiddly, you hook then onto the loops & lock them in place).

I can honestly say that since I've owned my first GTR, a 2007 model to the current date, owning a 2011 model I cannot ever recall reading sustained glowing reports on the GTR, why is this?
It's a stonking machine and if it wasn't for the fact I've just traded mine in for a Honda Deuville  I'd have kept it for many more years yet. (I'm joking about buying the Honda).

  Am I missing something? Is the GTR really so shite?  Who's been providing this info?

[Andy]

It's a bit like the Top Gear cool wall, not really based on anything tangible. Drop them an email.

[Richard]

Hi

1 - no
2 - no, from my reading on here more likely the switch under the stove knob not working
3 - no (but mine has a Sierra diff anyway lol)
4 - yea they can be a fiddle, its easy to miss the front locator, the mrs lets me put them on cos they piss her off

Richard

[PCPeteUK]

Well I haven't suffered from any of the listed problems........YET!! 

[shepster]

they put in the wrong magazine it should have in been  in farmers weekley it would have come out on top....
on a serious note i wouldnt take any notice of these surveys every model got its pro and cons....

[pross]

being a newbie you read things like this and it puts doubts in your mind ( which in mine I have to push something out to remember something new  )
unless you come to a site like this and speak to you nutters  . for genuine info
which makes these reports total B#*#*#*s. who Paid the survey fees BM or Honda

[100milesaway]

Steve, as soon as you mentioned Ride magazine  , I just knew what was coming next . That publication is little more than a comic, and I must say it is a good one,       because it's articles always make me laugh, ( I dont buy it by the way, I have it passed on ). It really is at the bottom end of bike publications.    It's  .

[O.C.]

I honestly don't know whether to get angry or laugh. I've just been reading Mays edition of RIDE and they have a feature on the top 20 sports tourers & tourers...........can you guess where the GTR came? It dragged itself out of the depths to just scrape in at number  20!!!

It was beaten by the Honda Deuville for God's sake which romped in as the14th best tourer . The BMW K1600 came in as the best bike in this class, (well, there's a surprise!)

Amongst other negative factors the GTR apparently suffers from....

1/  Skipping gears. (Never experienced that, nor do I know anyone who has).

2/  The remote fob can stop working, (I've heard that is possible if the battery goes flat but never personally experienced it).

3/ Final drive failure's. (Never experienced that, nor do I know anyone who has).

4/ Fiddly pannier fittings which the mag says are easy to get wrong. (How are they fiddly, you hook then onto the loops & lock them in place).

I can honestly say that since I've owned my first GTR, a 2007 model to the current date, owning a 2011 model I cannot ever recall reading sustained glowing reports on the GTR, why is this?
It's a stonking machine and if it wasn't for the fact I've just traded mine in for a Honda Deuville  I'd have kept it for many more years yet. (I'm joking about buying the Honda).

  Am I missing something? Is the GTR really so shite?  Who's been providing this info?

As Geoff has said Steve Ride magazine is, in my opinion, absolute shite, written by muppets and edited by a goon. Its only use is to wipe yer  with it and it probably wouldn't even do that properly.

I never experienced any of those issues with any of my 3 GTRs, and like yourself I don't know of anyone who has, apart from the muppet tester at Ride

[O.C.]

As Geoff has said Steve Ride magazine is, in my opinion, absolute shite, written by muppets and edited by a goon. Its only use is to wipe yer  with it and it probably wouldn't even do that properly.

I never experienced any of those issues with any of my 3 GTRs, and like yourself I haven't heard of anyone who has, apart from the muppet tester at Ride

[tapps]

I've never had or heard of anyone with the problem's mentioned in the so called RIDE magazine review & to be honest I couldn't give a  they dished the Yamaha xjr 1300 a few years ago.i have a 58 plate one & i'm more than happy with it,the same goes for my 12 plate 1400 gtr.i couldn't give a  what over people think about what I ride.as long as I'm happy that's all what matter's.

[garfield1974]

Amongst other negative factors the GTR apparently suffers from....

1/  Skipping gears. (Never experienced that, nor do I know anyone who has).

2/  The remote fob can stop working, (I've heard that is possible if the battery goes flat but never personally experienced it).

3/ Final drive failure's. (Never experienced that, nor do I know anyone who has).

4/ Fiddly pannier fittings which the mag says are easy to get wrong. (How are they fiddly, you hook then onto the loops & lock them in place).

GTR 2008 58000 km

1) No

2) Yes (when battery runs out ) 

3) No

4) Don't count how many times took them on and off and still all good and accounted for 

[Kwikasfuki]

They are talking 

I've only heard of one final drive failure

If they'd said something about batteries on the TPS we'd all be nodding our heads in agreement.

But what they've listed is a load of bollocks

[patrick]

I honestly don't know whether to get angry or laugh. I've just been reading Mays edition of RIDE and they have a feature on the top 20 sports tourers & tourers...........can you guess where the GTR came? It dragged itself out of the depths to just scrape in at number  20!!! It was beaten by the Honda Deuville for God's sake which romped in as the14th best tourer . The BMW K1600 came in as the best bike in this class, (well, there's a surprise!)

Amongst other negative factors the GTR apparently suffers from....
1/  Skipping gears. (Never experienced that, nor do I know anyone who has).
2/  The remote fob can stop working, (I've heard that is possible if the battery goes flat but never personally experienced it).
3/ Final drive failure's. (Never experienced that, nor do I know anyone who has).
4/ Fiddly pannier fittings which the mag says are easy to get wrong. (How are they fiddly, you hook then onto the loops & lock them in place).

I knew a guy who traded UP from a Deuville to aHonda CBF1000, and shan't be ordering one my self just yet!"

1) Gears have always bee trouble free on mine
2)Remote fob battery does need replacing but you get a warning on the bike and its a 30 sec job.
3)  Final drive has always does what its supposed to
4) Pannier fitting is so simple. how coudl you  get it wrong?

No doubt Winston will be along shortly to tell us ore on how these tests are done.

[Lonewolf]

I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't being kept out of some private loop of information. I feel suitably reassured now. 

Just to clarify though, its not RIDE who have drawn these conclusions and rated the GTR 20th best tourer, its the owners, its in a feature RIDE do called Rider Power, its described as the largest, longest running motorcycle satisfaction survey in the world whereby owners of specific bikes contribute their thoughts and opinions on the bikes they own and ride.  As for RIDE mag itself, I like it, its the only bike mag I actually do buy. Its the findings themselves which I find hard to swallow.

[Rusty]

Like many here I have been riding a "few years" now and although for me the Gtr has gone North it is without doubt THE best overall bike I have ever owned ... there are still one or two I would like to take out, you know those bavarian beasts are calling, but the chaps from Nippon have created what is for me a sublime bike and one should take RIDE for what it is ... a bike magazine that is entertaining to read, with plenty of glossy photos and little real content.