hugo7-
It was a very fine bike, but i'm quite tall (195 cm) and i couldn't get a comfy enough position for multiple hours in the saddle. I've been a long time fan of Ducati, but this one was, at the time, the best i could get my hands on. Every possible upgrade, fit wise, was too expensive to justify from the start (think of rear footrests or bar risers, undoable without changing every single brake/clutch/throttle line to a longer one).
I made the mistake to think of it as a sporty touring bike, while in reality it's just a less stretched Monster. A part of me would have loved to keep it as a second bike, but i really can't justify the extra cost.
Here's a (potato quality) photo of me and my partner riding, you can see how high we sit and how the front windshield is almost useless. The GS is a bigger bike overall, both for me and for whoever i'm riding with.
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Marcootsee
First time posting here; here’s my oh-so-basic 2010 GS Adventure.
Bought it almost one year ago, after a couple years on a 1st gen. Ducati Multistrada 1100. After thousands of kms riding a smaller and sportier bike, suffering for the wooden seat and the ridicoulous air protection (and noise), i’ve finally found my happy place.
Right now my long term plan is to keep it basically OEM+, ride year-round and haul everything i want/need without taking the car. I love the feeling of the cable-actuated throttle and i don’t want more electronics than the bare minimum (TCS and ABS).
The bike will clock 80.000 km in a couple weeks, but i’m fairly confident that his boxer engine will be mumbling smoothly up until the end of civilization (and possibly beyond).
The biggest modification i’ve done for now (and probably will do) it’s been a set of 2nd hand Bitubo Shocks. Although the ride quality has been greatly improved, i still need to swap the rear coil, because the bike is too harsh and unbalanced (almost zero static sag, probably the previous owner wanted it to behave better with a passenger and a ton of luggage).
In the coming months i’ll add a couple of farkles and get a decent tune with an Akrapovic slip-on. For now i’m just trying to enjoy it as much as possible before the winter.
Big bike, big miles, big smiles.