Yamaha Stryker Makes Loud Knock When Changing Gears UPDATED
Yamaha Stryker Makes Loud Knock When Changing Gears
2014 Yamaha Stryker. Photos: Jeff Crow (Sportlibrary.com.au)
The new Yamaha Stryker is the second in the comprehensive Star cruiser line-upwardly to feature a modern, minimalist style, following on from the Bolt.
Yamaha calls it their "tattoo" expect compared with the heritage fashion of the rest of the line-upwards. Yamaha Moto Australia marketing guru Sean Goldhawk aptly refers to the Bolt and Stryker as the Offspring in a reference to the heavily tattooed stone band.
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The 950cc Bolt and 1300cc Stryker are the beginning of a raft of new Offspring models featuring less chrome, more than gunmetal surfaces and a modern, minimalist await.
But while the Bolt is a blank canvas for young customisers to slice and dice, the new 1304cc Stryker rolls off the factory floor as a fully customised cruiser at $14,999 for the "raven" gloss black and $15,299 for the matte grey with tank graphics and the new Bullet Cowl in camo light-green for $15,599. That's a very competitive price and it comes with an impressive five-year, unlimited-kilometre warranty similar the rest of their cruisers.
This positions it below the XVS1300A ($15,999) and XVS1300AT ($18,299) which were previously the pick of the bunch for their balance of weight, handling and performance.
Sean says the Stryker won't replace the current XVS1300 models, but will be an addition to the fleet giving Yamaha more metric cruisers than any other Japanese manufacturer in Australia. Stryker brings the cruiser total up to an even dozen, one more Suzuki and near twice as many equally Honda or Kawasaki.
It sits toward the upper-capacity end of the Yamaha line-upwards which starts with a 250cc, then the 650s which are the tiptop-selling cruiser in the market. The ultra-trendy 950cc Bolt models are the most recent additions. The 1100cc model has been dropped, but there are still a couple of 1300cc and 1900cc models to cull from and you tin fifty-fifty course the VMAX every bit a muscle cruiser. Quite a line-up with all gaps and cruiser styles plugged.
The ambitious-looking Stryker is powered by the aforementioned liquid-cooled 1304cc 60-degree V-twin, but the bike has a kicked-out chopper-style forepart, less chrome, modern LED taillights and that minimalist "tattoo" expect.
The engine has 4 valves per cylinder, delivers 100Nm at 3000 revs and loves to rev more than most cruiser engines. Even though information technology's water-cooled information technology still has the traditional cooling fins and the blacked-out radiator is discretely tucked in betwixt the cradle frame. It is driven by a depression-maintenance and repose belt drive. In fact, the whole drivetrain is very quiet, allowing the rider to enjoy the deep bass of the muted twin single-sided exhausts.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and the chopper look doesn't particularly plow me on, simply this mean and ambitious car does turn your head, thanks to the extended forks and swirling 21-inch magazine cycle. For the tech-heads, the forks accept a forty-degree rake with 109mm of trail and a 34-caste caster.
That fork rake, skinny forepart tyre and 210mm rear tyre would indicate it will be slow to steer and volition be prone to standing upwards in corners. However, as nosotros shove off on the launch ride from motorcycle café, Gasolina on Melbourne'south Southbank, it speedily becomes axiomatic that the steering geometry works.
Information technology doesn't flick around like a sportsbike, but the steering is lighter than expected. It's not "lite and nimble" as Yamaha suggests in its spiel, simply information technology's no barge, either.
Early in the ride, the ergonomics propose long and comfortable runs with a low 670mm deep-dish seat that should accommodate well-nigh every sized rider. It has generous width and a lower dorsum support that rises up to the pillion seat. Notwithstanding, pillions won't like their modest perch and the high-mounted pegs. I'd propose most riders will ditch the rear seat and get a solo seat option with rear rack.
The apartment and fat 1" bars are up on an extended riser and so you punch the air like the Sons of Anarchy. The controls are conventional with a nice quality feel to match Yamaha's typically impeccable build quality that features steel fenders on all Yamaha Star bikes.
A glaring bibelot here is the strange-shaped musical instrument panel surrounded by chrome-painted plastic. It looks out of place. Such a modern pod would be expected to be a modern unit with digital display, just it houses a large counterpart speedo with a tiny LCD screen that shows odo, two trip metres, clock and fuel gauge, all of which I found difficult to read in any light weather. Importantly, you can toggle between LCD displays via a switch on the bars, simply it'southward on the right rather than on the left where it should be.
There is no tacho, but I can tell you the gearing is very loftier. You will do most suburban corners in beginning gear and, on the highway, you will need to drop from fifth to fourth or even 3rd for overtaking manoeuvres. In that location is no sixth gear on whatsoever Yamaha cruiser, only 5th feels overdriven anyway.
Gears are very positive and they don't accept that awful mechanical clunk as they engage that we wait from such a torquey drivetrain. Instead, they lock into place with an assuring thud. Neutral is relatively easy to find.
At that place is plenty of torque available in the lower reaches, simply when you climb the revs, it really gets excited and rips your arms off.
Stopping isn't great with a single disc upwards front end which matches the stopping power of the rear brake. Together, they work quite well. There is also good feel from the lever and pedal. Sean says ABS is not offered because information technology adds $yard to the toll. "This is quite a price-sensitive market and there are not enough people worried nearly it," he says.
Ride is business firm with a difficult-sprung rear shock that bounces me out of my seat on several occasions on the bumpy country Victorian roads. It even launched a few of my colleagues who weigh nigh double, nonetheless none of them reported the bike bottoming out. The front bump steers a bit and the fat rear tyre tracks on longitudinal cracks and ridges.
However, treatment is pretty practiced and you can touch down the footpegs with confidence on virtually corners every bit information technology doesn't wallow and there are no hero blobs underneath to dig into the tarmac.
Our launch ride included a couple of extended highway stunts that bespeak you tin ride reasonable distances before yous start fidgeting in the saddle. Fuel stops volition probably pull you upward nearly the time you get saddle sore with 14 litres in the teardrop tank and a 2.2L reserve.
Then you tin step back and admire the long and awesome machine, accept the praise of the trendy guy at the side by side fuel pump and compare tattoos.
Star Stryker XVS1300
- Price: $fourteen,999 (black), $fifteen,299 (greyness), $15,599 (Bullet Cowl in camo green)
- Warranty: 5 years, unlimited km
- Engine: 1304cc liquid-cooled, 4-stroke, four-valves, V-twin
- Bore x stroke: 100 x 83mm
- Compression: 9.5 : 1
- Transmission: 5-speed, chugalug bulldoze, moisture clutch
- Intermission: 41mm forks, 135mm travel, rear swingarm, 100mm travel
- Caster angle: 34º
- Trail: 109 mm
- Brakes: hydraulic 320/310mm single discs
- Tyres 120/70-21M/C 62H; 210/40R18M/C 73H (tubeless)
- Length: 2535mm
- Width: 860mm
- Meridian: 1130 mm
- Seat: 670mm
- Wheelbase: 1755mm
- Clearance: 150mm
- Moisture weight: 293kg
- Fuel tank: 15 litres, ii.2L res
- Oil tank: 3.7 litres
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