Greetings ye merry ol TDM:ers!
Fredrikâs the name and Iâm from the land of rain and beautiful women , Sweden. Married and a resident of the lovely city of Gothenburg. I have been looking for quite a while for a bike that might punch my ticket, Triumph Tiger, Bonneville (blame my 55 year old cousin for that one) Honda Varadero, Transalp, V-Strom 1000 and so onâ¦but there was always something missing, build quality, warranty, how the major forum of a certain bike would be talking about their problems and so on (have you looked at the tiger 1050-forum for example? If I was <b>really</b> hot for a Tiger then yes, I might overlook all-those-problems people seems to have with everything from gaskets, that the engine was not correctly mounted, bolts left unscrewed, oil leaks, oil consumption, electronic malfunctions and the list goes unfortunately on and on. Pity as the Tiger seemed really nice.) [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif[/img]
Then I took a hard long look at the TDM 900. It had ABS, It had a lovely twin, over 80 bhp, was tall enough for a guy thatâs 1,93 meters, had a supple amount of goods to hang on it, good price compared to the Tiger and Varadero and let the wife arrive at the destination with a backside still round, and not flat. So, Itâs going to be a TDM in the spring. I think I have read about 30-40 pages here and I still havenât found anything major against this purchase. Great to read things like âIâm going on a trip, any one wants to come alongâ instead of âMy poor Tigger hit a pebble and got the housing cracked and it is leaking, and the odometer wonât move, and the third cylinder has jammed and wrecked the whole interior of the bore, but hey, nothing has happened in..ohâ¦a week before that so the bike has really shinedâ. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whatcha.gif[/img]
Anyway, Iâm back to lurking now. Nice to see you guys have some people from the Nordic countries here as well.
Fredrikâs the name and Iâm from the land of rain and beautiful women , Sweden. Married and a resident of the lovely city of Gothenburg. I have been looking for quite a while for a bike that might punch my ticket, Triumph Tiger, Bonneville (blame my 55 year old cousin for that one) Honda Varadero, Transalp, V-Strom 1000 and so onâ¦but there was always something missing, build quality, warranty, how the major forum of a certain bike would be talking about their problems and so on (have you looked at the tiger 1050-forum for example? If I was <b>really</b> hot for a Tiger then yes, I might overlook all-those-problems people seems to have with everything from gaskets, that the engine was not correctly mounted, bolts left unscrewed, oil leaks, oil consumption, electronic malfunctions and the list goes unfortunately on and on. Pity as the Tiger seemed really nice.) [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif[/img]
Then I took a hard long look at the TDM 900. It had ABS, It had a lovely twin, over 80 bhp, was tall enough for a guy thatâs 1,93 meters, had a supple amount of goods to hang on it, good price compared to the Tiger and Varadero and let the wife arrive at the destination with a backside still round, and not flat. So, Itâs going to be a TDM in the spring. I think I have read about 30-40 pages here and I still havenât found anything major against this purchase. Great to read things like âIâm going on a trip, any one wants to come alongâ instead of âMy poor Tigger hit a pebble and got the housing cracked and it is leaking, and the odometer wonât move, and the third cylinder has jammed and wrecked the whole interior of the bore, but hey, nothing has happened in..ohâ¦a week before that so the bike has really shinedâ. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whatcha.gif[/img]
Anyway, Iâm back to lurking now. Nice to see you guys have some people from the Nordic countries here as well.
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