Excellent review with frank and proper feedback. I remember when Hyundai and Skoda were cheap budget cars. not anymore. I welcome the competition into this, as you say, expensive market.
People love to rag on KTM at every opportunity for some reason. If I'm being generous, maybe it's because they think KTM is/was special and is losing that as it becomes this massive corporate blob.
I'v got a riding circle of around 10 fokes, and i swear the 4 KTM's are ALWAYS in disrepair. Meanwhile my mate with a VFR basically has decided that he wont EVER maintain it, and it just does not give a flat fk about it, fires up perfectly everytime.
Fit & Finish is Superb. Standard spec is unbelievable and includes 3 part metal luggage & frames - which Chris asked to have removed. If you order an F900GS to the same spec it's almost 20k! Because Everything is an optional extra on the Bee-em - heated seat, heated grips, quick shifter, sat nav, dash cam, hand guards, bash plate, engine guards, centre stand, adjustable screen and luggage. All standard on the Voge...
Interesting point, this is only the third '74 plate I've seen so far. A Bentley in Ipswich, a Ducati on the Norfolk coast yesterday, this Voge on a youtube video. 3 weeks, couple of thousand miles, only three plates. '24 plate was the same earlier this year. Things have become too expensive, people are not buying the shiny new things as much as they were and when they are they are picking up cheap. £9k for the Voge or £12.5k for the (poverty spec) F900 (£17k for a like for like spec)? For middle weight, middle aged, bald me, that extra £8k in my pocket is doing me a lot more favours than a roundel on the side.
I have a 525 dsx and i've done 5k kilometers in about 3 months, i can say the bike never had any issue not even the smallest... it's a great bike and i really love it.
There has to be affordable bikes for the fresh blood coming through. There's certainly several Chinese manufacturers that have good quality control and offer great value - it might save motorcycles (along with Enfield and bsa).
The catch is the inferior engine control software, driving modes and lack of IMU compared to the BMW. Suspension better compared to F850GS, worse compared to F900Gs.
Great to see more and more exceptionally keenly priced motorcycles on the market in recent times. *That Guy on an Africa Twin* (CRF1000L) proves that if you really take the trouble to develop your riding skills over a long period, you can wrestle all sorts of machinery through some ridiculously extreme terrain. The secondhand market is your friend.
Fair play for having no damage after that sesh hahah! Like you say, see how it goes long term but you gave it a good stress test where it’s not designed to go and it handled itself well!
Everything still fully intact Jon, just a small dent in one of the cats in the down pipe. Can't complain about that after 6 hours grief on Enduro tracks! It's a bit dirty though...
@@inspectorclouseau3880 Your suspicions are indeed correct. Voge are a subsidiary of Loncin, one of Chinas most respected and established motorcycle manufacturers who produce 2.5 million motorcycles per year and 3 million engines...for BMW, Honda and Mv. Loncin have exclusively produced all BMW's F series of parallel twin engines and their working partnership is almost 20 years old.
Could you make a video about Kove 800X Pro? I am going to buy it next year and want to hear your opinion on it. Thank you a lot love your videos Chris.
it's but at your own risk for longevity? I suppose it's good value for the kit, let's hope they buyer get to enjoy the bikes long enough. I'll stick to second hand bikes (with known qualities and issues) for now Cheers Chris
Well seeing as it's uncannily similar to the F900GS I think it might've been intentional perhaps? Park them next to one another and you'll see how similar they are...
Similar list price to a lightly used new model transalp. That'd be an interesting comparison. 150cc difference but similar HP. Transalp is lighter too.
@@TheOriginalCoda I wasn't a fan of adventure bikes until I rode some and now I know why they're so popular. 1 word...COMFORT. They cope with crap roads, any roads, sometimes no roads ! They're just a superb all rounder you can ride All day at a more than reasonable pace and for most people, most of the time - that works. They're fast enough to be entertaining but still easy to ride and without being boring or bland.
@@rodgeskell4218 I can understand that, especially the crap roads bit. I relegate my sports bike to the track, and for the road I bought a scrambler, pot-holes be damned.
@@Terraceview Why? It's Only £9 grand Brand new & fully loaded inc 3 part metal luggage - the equivalent F900GS with the same optional extras weighs in at just under £20 grand. I think I'm pretty confident which one will suffer more depreciation...
