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Steve H Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1223 Spartanburg, SC Gender:	Re: Return of the small bike... Reply #15 - 11/13/16 at 03:29:46 That little Honda is neat. Looks like the XR200 engine with the addition of electric starter over the transmission. I'd like to try out one of those.
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5107 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Return of the small bike... Reply #16 - 11/13/16 at 11:57:00 Yeah in Japan !
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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Return of the small bike... Reply #17 - 11/13/16 at 19:52:10 Ruttly wrote on 11/12/16 at 18:17:35: What is that a 500lb 250cc v twin bowloflard ? It does look like it needs to go on a diet before Thanksgiving!
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Reply #19 - 11/16/16 at 12:27:00

Ruttly wrote on 11/12/16 at 14:59:31:

I like that little Honda it's cool
I hate it when they won't import the cool bikes
Good eye Papa Bear

That's almost a dead knock-off for the SYM Wolf classic. No wonder you (I) like it! Also please consider the new Ducati 400 Scrambler Sixty2. At $8,000 MSRP, tho, they probably won't fly off the floor.

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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5107 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Return of the small bike... Reply #20 - 11/16/16 at 12:37:03 Haven't seen the 400 duk yet. Is it a thumper ?
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Rodger Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 256	Re: Return of the small bike... Reply #21 - 11/16/16 at 14:27:03 According to the Feb 2016 test by Cycle World, the Duc 400 is a vtwin. But $8,000?? Too bad the small, entry-level, affordable bikes of yore aren't available to new riders today. P.S.: Just curious....does anyone know the MSRP of the first-year Savage?
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Steve H Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1223 Spartanburg, SC Gender:	Re: Return of the small bike... Reply #22 - 11/16/16 at 15:15:04 $5,499 MSRP 1986 according to totalmotorcycle.com
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HAPPYDAN Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 270	Re: Return of the small bike... Reply #23 - 11/16/16 at 16:27:51 Ruttly wrote on 11/16/16 at 12:37:03: Haven't seen the 400 duk yet. Is it a thumper ? https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_cpOSoyLdLA/maxresdefault.jpg Technically an "L" twin, 41 screamin' horses with the famous desmo valves. A friend took one out for a test ride and it got away from her. $1500 for repairs and still no bike.
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Re: Return of the small bike...
Reply #24 - 11/16/16 at 18:01:04

Rodger wrote on 11/16/16 at 14:27:03:

According to the Feb 2016 test by Cycle World, the Duc 400 is a vtwin. But $8,000??

Too bad the small, entry-level, affordable bikes of yore aren't available to new riders today.

P.S.: Just curious....does anyone know the MSRP of the first-year Savage?

If memory serves, $1999 was what they actually sold for on sale, but that went up fairly quickly.

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Reply #25 - 11/16/16 at 18:35:31

$1999 in 1986 dollars would not be too far off. According to a couple of online inflation calculators, $100/1986 = $217.60/2015, so rough-figuring, $4349. With all dealer charges & sales tax, my 2015 S40 cost just over $5K.

FWIW, my first new bike, a 1973 CB350 twin was $867...but I was getting paid $2/hour as a gas station pump jockey/light mechanic.

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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Return of the small bike... Reply #26 - 11/16/16 at 18:39:03 I've got a larger version of this ad somewhere.
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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Return of the small bike... Reply #27 - 11/16/16 at 18:42:47 Here's a slightly different version.
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5107 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Return of the small bike... Reply #28 - 11/16/16 at 20:27:13 I been eye ballin that big azz single since it came out , but didnt get one till 2012
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