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I just picked up a brand new 2023 Versys 650 this week. This is my second bike, first being a 2007 Ninja 650R, though only because my girlfriend at the time was 5'4" and the Versys was too tall for her, we were both new to riding. I sold that in 2012 when I moved from the Bay Area, CA to the Northeast and now finally got to a place(location, time, financial) where I can ride again.
For the foreseeable future I have only one thing on the agenda: riding to places I can hike, then adding backpacking and camping in the Spring. I plan to do videos of this, starting with an initial review of the bike once I get the equipment sorted because I'd like to see more content from owner/operators, rather than websites and dealers narrating specs and ambiguous opinions.
Here's some obligatory pictures I just took to have something to show. For anyone interested in numbers, you can see the invoice. The dealer initially had $698 A.D.M. on the bike listed in the shop, but not online. I started the negotiation asking if there was anything they could do about that since I was planning on buying ~$2,000 in accessories. The radiator guard was out of stock and I decided to skip the large windscreen because the bike has a windscreen and I was a little peeved they even attempt to charge A.D.M. But, considering the availability of these bikes right now, I would have paid it rather than searching for another one, since the dealership I went to was 45 miles away(had to Uber $80 to pick up the bike) and the next closest place was 150+ miles in the other direction. I would have got the accessories from the dealership 8 miles from my house though.
This bike is everything I imagined it to be in 2007 and more, with all the improvements/upgrades since. The top case, frame sliders, rear spools and Kawasaki USB port are on order. $140 for a USB port is ridiculous but I haven't seen a single review or mention of it anywhere, so curiosity is costing me about a hundred bucks. It also appears that it might be the only thing that will easily fit in the right side accessory slot as it's a 3" upside down monopoly house shape, which I didn't know till I saw the bike in person. I was wondering why the socket kit looked like it did since everything else looks like circles.
I just picked up a brand new 2023 Versys 650 this week. This is my second bike, first being a 2007 Ninja 650R, though only because my girlfriend at the time was 5'4" and the Versys was too tall for her, we were both new to riding. I sold that in 2012 when I moved from the Bay Area, CA to the Northeast and now finally got to a place(location, time, financial) where I can ride again.
For the foreseeable future I have only one thing on the agenda: riding to places I can hike, then adding backpacking and camping in the Spring. I plan to do videos of this, starting with an initial review of the bike once I get the equipment sorted because I'd like to see more content from owner/operators, rather than websites and dealers narrating specs and ambiguous opinions.
Here's some obligatory pictures I just took to have something to show. For anyone interested in numbers, you can see the invoice. The dealer initially had $698 A.D.M. on the bike listed in the shop, but not online. I started the negotiation asking if there was anything they could do about that since I was planning on buying ~$2,000 in accessories. The radiator guard was out of stock and I decided to skip the large windscreen because the bike has a windscreen and I was a little peeved they even attempt to charge A.D.M. But, considering the availability of these bikes right now, I would have paid it rather than searching for another one, since the dealership I went to was 45 miles away(had to Uber $80 to pick up the bike) and the next closest place was 150+ miles in the other direction. I would have got the accessories from the dealership 8 miles from my house though.
This bike is everything I imagined it to be in 2007 and more, with all the improvements/upgrades since. The top case, frame sliders, rear spools and Kawasaki USB port are on order. $140 for a USB port is ridiculous but I haven't seen a single review or mention of it anywhere, so curiosity is costing me about a hundred bucks. It also appears that it might be the only thing that will easily fit in the right side accessory slot as it's a 3" upside down monopoly house shape, which I didn't know till I saw the bike in person. I was wondering why the socket kit looked like it did since everything else looks like circles.
