Recently changed my fx 650 to a transalp after two years of happy riding.

Good points: nice ride, reliable, easy handling, easy to work on, great for city and secondary road (80 k/h), enough power for highway and pillion, big enough range (200 km before going to the gasstation)

Less points: strong one-cyclinder characteristics which means that you will becoming a little bit tired on the highway. Good enough for tarmac, but not for offroad.

Major drawback: no documentation, information, accesorry parts or other riders available because this bike is rare (at least, in Holland that is). I had to wait 4 weeks to replace the part around the frontlight after a crash

The FX 650 is the luxury version of the SLR including a bigger tank. But this also makes him more vunurable when going offroad.

This bike is great, really! I did change to the transalp because I have to do a lot of highway too. The second reason was that I wanted things like documentation, information and other riders to share experiences. First thing I ordered for my new bike where crashbars. Something I never found for my Fx.

But for the city, best bike available, absolutely!!!!!!!!!!!

ps. I used the bike last winter in cold weather, wet weather, slippery roads and busy traffic. No sweat because the bike felt always like I could trust him.


[This message has been edited by borus (edited 06 January 2006).]