Tips and advices on how to buy a Honda Transalp
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2022
- In this video I am going to share with you some tips and advices on how to buy a Honda Transalp or any used bike.
I will go to the process of checking the common flaws that Transalp have and other checks that can apply to any used bike.
I have the same bike from 2008 till now and have been traveled from Greece (where i live) to Bulgaria, Romania, Skopie, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia and Bosnia-Erzegovina. I have also traveled to Italy - Swiss - France.
Transalp 700 is a great tourer. I wish you to have nice kilometers all over Europe or wherever you like.
Hey thanks for you kind words! I hope that one day I can cover as many places as you did. Thanks. Take care.
Φίλε καλησπέρα, σκέφτομαι να πάρω τέτοια μηχανή αλλά με προβληματίζει το 5αρι κιβώτιο, είναι καλό για ταξίδια παρότι δεν έχει 6η;
Thank you for all the advices!
You're more than welcomed. 👍
I would recommand to check also the tires on wear as well as on dotnr. The dotnr ( 4 digits) gives you the week and year of production of the tires. Once tires have a certain age, they are no longer good, dispite they' re worn or not. Further once you make a tesrdrive, see iff the bike wants to tend to one direction. This might be caused by the pavement you drive on, but also , and that is worse, it might be the frame which is not straight. Finaly have a look at it from way behind and check iff the tailend is straight, if not, it might be the supportframe beïng not straight. Also check iff the kms or miles correspo d with the wear of the handlebars, the levers of rear and frontbrake, the clutch and the gear selector. Finaly wear on the frontside of the forks can tell you more or less wether the kms or miles are correct on the odometer.
Great info Kurt. Thanks for sharing
Looking to purchase a 2009 xl700v here in New Zealand, great tips on what to look for especially the rust and bearings check, the bike has no recorded service history but the current owner is a professional bike mechanic so I’m hoping it’s been loved on a bit, it’s done 66000kms but being a V twin I’m not thinking that’s high mileage really, keep up the great vlogs, Simon
Greeting from Ireland Simon! Since she is owned by a mechanic, I would expect that all maintenance have been done properly. But take that with a pinch of salt as they say, as mechanics can also be lazy. Have a look at the general state of the bike and it will give you an idea if she is been loved or not. Do the recommended checks. Transalps have a solid engine, so I would not be too concerned about the milage. Rust is the main issue especially underneath the exhaust and the wheel spokes so have a look to see how bad it is. If all is good, you should have a bike for another 66k. So good luck! Hope everything works out for you. 👍
Thanks for the reply, the bike’s rust free in the areas you pointed out so that’s good. Probably because they don’t salt the roads very often in the north of NZ.
Keep the vids coming, you do a great informative job 👏 I’ll keep watching with interest, Simon
@@simongrimme417Great Simon. Good luck! Thanks.
I’m looking at buying one off these for a three month tour off the uk and next year on how it performs I’m going to jump over to eu ,Thnks for the vid .
Welcome. Good luck!
Bela máquina, estou querendo compra uma infelizmente a mais nova e 2014 aki no Brasil
Olá greetings from Ireland! E Honda parou de fabricar lá em 2012. Mais não importa qual o ano se ela for bem mantida ela pode durar muitos anos. Honda lançou a nova transalp 750 neste ano na Europa não sei chegou aí. Abracos
Hey you
I would like to know what kind of holder you have for GPS / mobile ??
Kind regards from
Denmark
Hey Dane. Greetings from Ireland. The holder I made myself using couple left over brackets from ikea. No welding was required as I used a screw to tie them together and used the existing screws from the panel to hold in place. At the moment I am using it for my phone as I have already a GPS holder for my TomTom Rider. I found it hard to find one specific for transalp that would fit at the top of the bike dash. Not difficult to make one. Have a go. Regards.
@44 Degrees
I myself am a blacksmith, and reasonable to get good ideas, but yours looked really good, and then there is no reason to invent anything ;-)
Thanks for your reply, and good luck on the road !!
I need one of the users to buy
My Transalp 700 is very jumpy below 3000rpm, I have to drop a gear as soon as I drop to 3000, is this normal of should the bike pull better in lower revs? Thanks.
Hey James. Sorry to hear that you are having trouble with you Alp. When you say you have to drop a gear what gear are you dropping to? I don't have the same issue as you are describing. Unless you are in the wrong gear, this should not be happing. Try to start with some basics. Plugs, cable throttle, air filter and see if it makes a difference. If not try post to this forum - transalp.org. the members are very helpful and someone might sure have had the same issue as you are having. Good luck and let me know how you get on.
@@44degreesmotorcycleadventures Thanks for the reply. Plugs didn't resolve the issue but did improve performance some what. I'll try the filter next, current one looks good but maybe needs replacement.
Also try synchronice your cilinders, this made the problem your talking about on my cb500 a lot better
@@jamesmccann8127 Did you solved the problem?
Try maintenance, these bikes should work perfectly.
Thanks, I am eyballing an 08 model with 16k km locally. Guy bought it 2nd hand in september and put his order in for the new 750. There is hardly any decent review on this bike.
Welcome Marc and good luck with the purchase. Hope you will be as happy as I have been with my one. All the best!
one of the problems you missed is the countershaft problem...
Thanks for sharing. 👍