A new (highly updated) Suzuki DRZ-400 after a quarter century…

https://youtu.be/-0ErhThmz7s?si=Hd-9NceC4sFWOMuP

https://youtu.be/Zjdyz8CZlcA?si=VATdLg_yySvnZyHu

https://youtu.be/SkmWOpKOiwk?si=5rwQsXdjza9fpC0d

 

Believe me, I definitely approve of this!

 

Still a 5 speed though
Hopefully the ratios are revised.

 

Really? I’m sort of shocked by that.

 

I'm still waiting for electric start, water-cooled, six-speed DR650. Just kidding. They should never change it...well, a six-speed would be nice.

 

I think the DR/DR-Z are the 4Runner equivalents of the motorcycle world.

 

Even if they revise the gear ratios so 5th is useable at 80 mph, having only 5 gears is retarded. I can probably count on one hand the number of bikes with 5 speed gearboxes and they are all dino-fucking-saurs that used to be hot shit in the dual sport market 20 years ago. KLR, DR, DRZ, XRL. I think that's it. Revising the DRZ and not giving it a 6th gear; they may as well not have bothered.

And I say that loving all those old tech enduros and having owned several KLRs, DRs, and a DRZ.

 

I share your heartbreak.

The other problem is 1st gear being a little too tall for technical trails. At least for my preferred speed.