MotorcycleDaily.com: 2014 Suzuki V-Strom 1000 ABS: MD Long-Term Ride Review

Website www.motorcycledaily.com have posted their long term review of the new Suzuki V-Strom 1000 2014+

From the article:

You can call it ‘common wisdom,’ ‘group think,’ ‘Zeitgeist’ or maybe even ‘mob mentality,’ but as a product ages, the general narrative about it solidifies into a widely held belief. When it comes to V-Stroms, the narrative went, the 1000 is a pretty good bike, but the 650 is so much lighter and fun to ride it more than makes up for the horsepower deficit, so just get the 650. That’s probably why the 650 outsold the 1000 two-to-one in the USA, but after 600 miles on the revamped 2014 V-Strom 1000, I think that’s going to change.

The old 1000 model, first introduced in 2002, was, well, old. I will refrain from describing the dimensions of its teeth, as we have done that in great detail in other stories…oh Lord, I can’t help myself. It was long in the tooth. Our man Willy Ivans did a great job describing the changes made to the new bike, so please read or reread his outstanding first-ride story. The nutshell version of it, in case you can’t be bothered to click on the link, is that Suzuki really pulled out the stops to re-do this bike—it’s not just pretty new bodywork or new instruments. It’s much lighter (503 pounds gassed up), more fuel efficient, more responsive, better handling, better suspended…there are about 100 reasons why this is a better bike than the old one, which (at the risk of offending my many V-Strom 1000-mounted friends) was kind of a pig, if you want my honest opinion (you probably don’t).