I've had mine new since 2023. Same thoughts about the stock tyres; they work better when warmed up. At 3000miles I'm ready to put new boots on. Advice on forums is to go to 190/55 (as opposed to 199/50) rear tyre as improves turning response so I'm going to try that. Only other niggle is the hot running tapping which i hope will need to be resolved with the tappet shimming (under warranty). Yours sounds fine, maybe they addressed it on later models. Lol I never realied the caliper was not Brembo on the rear.
@ninji5226 it appears to have resolved hot start tapping on idle. However if you raise the throttle to 3000rpm for example seeing the initial 30 secs of hot start you can still hear it until the oil reaching operating pressure. The bike felt smooth and fast when I got it back... but I put most of this feeling down to having a vtwin courtesy bike to ride which was really lumpy in comparison.
Just ordered mine in the candy red. I did put the heated grips on and I also put a rad guard on mine but that's pretty much all I changed. There's a bit of a beast in that bike..
Before 6 k, it is the most gentle comfy, easy to manage bike. after 6k + the dragon comes out and starts to breath and reminds you of its racing heritage. Every moment beyond 6 k feels like its warping into the next dimension. Be safe when doing so. Ive never personally experienced an acceleration curve as exponential as this machine. I bet a pure 1k cc sport version is more so, but yea, it jumps if you are willing to let her scream and will break every speed limit in america in first gear.
When I test rode one of these last year with the touring screen I stopped on the M25 as I genuinely thought something was wrong with the bike, the noise and buffeting was absolutely awful, returned it to the dealer and he changed back to the original and it was night and day better.
bigger is not always better. Esp with windscreens and even more so at speed. I have this bike and love the stock screen. Wind hits me in the chest/neck area as i am 6'5 and it leaves my head in the clean breeze which i like. On my DR i have an brittania fairing with an adjustable screen and a touring screen to swap with. If i am at speed, neither the small or the large screen fully up is good. They do a great job of blocking the wind but buffetting is abhorent esp with the touring screen. Basically what you DONT want is to block the wind in front of you because nature abhors a vacuum., so as you go faster, sure you block the wind from the front, but that space will be filled from the sides, underneath, and the back intermittently causing head bounce. So yea, you want a slipstream, not a wind blocker.
Most modern Japanese bikes sound like a sewing machine with stock exhaust 😳, to pass euro 5 of course but I totally get leaving it intact. I live in the states and bought a '19 mt10 with under 1k mi on it a couple of summers ago for dirt cheap. The first thing I did was yank that boat anchor of a catalytic converter from the belly of the beast and put a Yoshimura Alpha T 3/4 cat delete, sprint filter and had the ecu re-tuned or "flashed" which is CRITICAL if you pull essentially the whole emissions system off a bike. Yes, it's very illegal but cops never enforce it. It went from about 133whp stock to 151-152whp but it feels like SUBSTANTIALLY more. Mt10 has very short wheelbase, shorter than an R1, even shorter than a mt09, I've owned a '22 mt09 also. It is loud, sounds absolutely wonderful and let's just say it's wheelie happy! 3rd gear at about 70mph or so, you can just power it up no problem....no clutch needed. It will obviously go putt putt and go slow just fine. Very nice machine you have chosen. I'm sure it will give you many happy miles!
my chain snapped at 30 MPH 1000 miles very scary - I was lucky no damage - it sheared - think its a cheap chain - now have a heaver chain no problems now. I advise getting a better chain.
Hello, I can't flat foot but I'm not far off on the balls of my feet with my Daytona boots on... If you haven't seen these boots look at my two videos they have game changed the taller bikes for me so I feel comfortable 👍🙂
I am 5ft 8in and can flat foot with my old harley boots with no issues, but if I use more sports bike boots, I can flat foot with one foot but my other foot can only get the ball of my foot down, but I sit so high up that 90% the time I only put one foot down and it feels so secure to hold up
I test rode the Ninja SX after I rode the GT and I did find it better but got such a good deal on the GT that I went with it . I'm really happy with the GT and very impressed with the fit, finish and general build quality.
Is that 50 miles per gallon? How are you getting that i am just at the 600 mile marker with my bike and can only get about 38MPG, what are you doing to get that?
@@deezybe9489 When I use my bike I go for longer runs and don't do much town driving as I live in the countryside. Few spirited runs but yeah gets low 50 (UK) MPG.
@FuelwithDave if you can help me on this cuz I don't know is there a difference between mpg us and mpg UK? I know that over in that part of the world that it is common to see kpl and I have even seen kpg but more and more I have started to see mpg and it has been some years from when I was last over that way and don't know if there is a difference between UK and US mpg.
@@deezybe9489 Google search pulled this into so USA is always less. Plus we run minimum of 95 octane fuel over here. I put 99 in today to see how it runs. 1 liter per 100 kilometers equals 235.2 US MPG or 282.5 imperial MPG. At the same time, 1 US MPG equals 235.2 liters per 100 km. 1 US MPG = 1.201 UK MPG, while 1 UK MPG is 0.8327 US MPG. These are the basic equations of fuel economy conversion
@FuelwithDave yeah after looking it up the a UK gallon has like 20% more liquid then a US gallon so if I take your 50mpg and decide it by 1.2 to account for the extra fuel then you would get about 40 US mpg give or take, still better then what I get at 35 but I can't stop myself from getting on it
I've had mine new since 2023. Same thoughts about the stock tyres; they work better when warmed up. At 3000miles I'm ready to put new boots on. Advice on forums is to go to 190/55 (as opposed to 199/50) rear tyre as improves turning response so I'm going to try that.
Only other niggle is the hot running tapping which i hope will need to be resolved with the tappet shimming (under warranty). Yours sounds fine, maybe they addressed it on later models.
Lol I never realied the caliper was not Brembo on the rear.
Did the tapping go away? It's probably the only thing keeping this as my next bike. I have ocd so it would not fly hearing a ticking constantly.
@ninji5226 it appears to have resolved hot start tapping on idle. However if you raise the throttle to 3000rpm for example seeing the initial 30 secs of hot start you can still hear it until the oil reaching operating pressure.
The bike felt smooth and fast when I got it back... but I put most of this feeling down to having a vtwin courtesy bike to ride which was really lumpy in comparison.
Fabulous bike, I have the GSX S 1000 naked 2019. Love it, have considered the GT as well. Great review, and greetings from South Australia. 😎
Just ordered mine in the candy red. I did put the heated grips on and I also put a rad guard on mine but that's pretty much all I changed. There's a bit of a beast in that bike..
Enjoy, definitely a beast 😀
Before 6 k, it is the most gentle comfy, easy to manage bike. after 6k + the dragon comes out and starts to breath and reminds you of its racing heritage. Every moment beyond 6 k feels like its warping into the next dimension. Be safe when doing so. Ive never personally experienced an acceleration curve as exponential as this machine. I bet a pure 1k cc sport version is more so, but yea, it jumps if you are willing to let her scream and will break every speed limit in america in first gear.
When I test rode one of these last year with the touring screen I stopped on the M25 as I genuinely thought something was wrong with the bike, the noise and buffeting was absolutely awful, returned it to the dealer and he changed back to the original and it was night and day better.
Not just me then 😂👍
bigger is not always better. Esp with windscreens and even more so at speed. I have this bike and love the stock screen. Wind hits me in the chest/neck area as i am 6'5 and it leaves my head in the clean breeze which i like. On my DR i have an brittania fairing with an adjustable screen and a touring screen to swap with. If i am at speed, neither the small or the large screen fully up is good. They do a great job of blocking the wind but buffetting is abhorent esp with the touring screen. Basically what you DONT want is to block the wind in front of you because nature abhors a vacuum., so as you go faster, sure you block the wind from the front, but that space will be filled from the sides, underneath, and the back intermittently causing head bounce. So yea, you want a slipstream, not a wind blocker.
Enjoyed that vlog, thanks for sharing 👍🏻
Most modern Japanese bikes sound like a sewing machine with stock exhaust 😳, to pass euro 5 of course but I totally get leaving it intact. I live in the states and bought a '19 mt10 with under 1k mi on it a couple of summers ago for dirt cheap. The first thing I did was yank that boat anchor of a catalytic converter from the belly of the beast and put a Yoshimura Alpha T 3/4 cat delete, sprint filter and had the ecu re-tuned or "flashed" which is CRITICAL if you pull essentially the whole emissions system off a bike. Yes, it's very illegal but cops never enforce it. It went from about 133whp stock to 151-152whp but it feels like SUBSTANTIALLY more. Mt10 has very short wheelbase, shorter than an R1, even shorter than a mt09, I've owned a '22 mt09 also. It is loud, sounds absolutely wonderful and let's just say it's wheelie happy! 3rd gear at about 70mph or so, you can just power it up no problem....no clutch needed. It will obviously go putt putt and go slow just fine. Very nice machine you have chosen. I'm sure it will give you many happy miles!
20 hsp IS substantially more. You had it dynod before and after?
my chain snapped at 30 MPH 1000 miles very scary - I was lucky no damage - it sheared - think its a cheap chain - now have a heaver chain no problems now. I advise getting a better chain.
Wow not good. Not heard of any others doing that myself! 😕
May I ask, how close are you to flat footing? I'm of a similar height and obviously have issues with this on all adventure/sports tourers.
Hello, I can't flat foot but I'm not far off on the balls of my feet with my Daytona boots on... If you haven't seen these boots look at my two videos they have game changed the taller bikes for me so I feel comfortable 👍🙂
I am 5ft 8in and can flat foot with my old harley boots with no issues, but if I use more sports bike boots, I can flat foot with one foot but my other foot can only get the ball of my foot down, but I sit so high up that 90% the time I only put one foot down and it feels so secure to hold up
Greetings.
Did you test the Ninja 1000sx before settling on the GT?
Was to tall for me when I sat on one 😅
I test rode the Ninja SX after I rode the GT and I did find it better but got such a good deal on the GT that I went with it . I'm really happy with the GT and very impressed with the fit, finish and general build quality.
Bike is too tall for my short legs. Sat on one and fitted on this one better 😄
I did a back to back test with the SX. It's a brilliant bike (SX) but i found the GT more 'fun'.
Is that 50 miles per gallon? How are you getting that i am just at the 600 mile marker with my bike and can only get about 38MPG, what are you doing to get that?
@@deezybe9489 When I use my bike I go for longer runs and don't do much town driving as I live in the countryside. Few spirited runs but yeah gets low 50 (UK) MPG.
@FuelwithDave if you can help me on this cuz I don't know is there a difference between mpg us and mpg UK? I know that over in that part of the world that it is common to see kpl and I have even seen kpg but more and more I have started to see mpg and it has been some years from when I was last over that way and don't know if there is a difference between UK and US mpg.
@@deezybe9489
Google search pulled this into so USA is always less. Plus we run minimum of 95 octane fuel over here. I put 99 in today to see how it runs.
1 liter per 100 kilometers equals 235.2 US MPG or 282.5 imperial MPG. At the same time, 1 US MPG equals 235.2 liters per 100 km. 1 US MPG = 1.201 UK MPG, while 1 UK MPG is 0.8327 US MPG. These are the basic equations of fuel economy conversion
@FuelwithDave yeah after looking it up the a UK gallon has like 20% more liquid then a US gallon so if I take your 50mpg and decide it by 1.2 to account for the extra fuel then you would get about 40 US mpg give or take, still better then what I get at 35 but I can't stop myself from getting on it