Sweden - Emmaboda: Ronnie Skarner [08-Feb-04]
Driving in West Africa and the Sahara with my offroad modified Diversion 900 (se Bike Pictures=Offroad), was a piece of cake. The Diversion is a great allround bike, but the suspension have to be modified for comfort and performance. Change to harder fork springs and fork oil to 15 or 20 with some ml Slick50 to reduce internal friction. Rear chock absorber have to be replaced to something much better, as it doesn't have any adjustments (spring preload doesn't count!). - Then test different settings and feel the difference, you will be surprised! |
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Sweden - Göthenburg: Torbjorn Olmhagen [15-Jan-00]
Hi! My name is Torbjorn Olmhagen and I live in Gothenburg SWEDEN. I'm 24 years old and bought my very first bike last year in May but got my licence in July. I use my bike to get to work and summer vacations :). 1999 I spent most of the time of the vacation in Sweden *5000km trip!* This year I'm heading for Europe and Switzerland.. this trip will probably exceed the 5000km I did last vacation. for my bike I'm building up a website containg EVERYTHING about the bike and Camping information.. www.diversion.nu is the URL. |
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Sweden - Göteborg: Christian Lachonius
Until recently, Christian has been a one-cylinder-only bike rider (Suzuki DR650 RSE to mention one...). In 1996, he switched to a XJ600S '95 and he must confess that it's a great bike. The only thing he still does not get used to is that he sometimes miss a 7th gear. If you have not been riding a one-cylinder-bike, he can tell you that it's a big difference between 4000 rpm at one cylinder and 4000 rpm at four cylinders (something like 'boom-boom-boom' versus 'oouuuiiiiii...' |
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Sweden - Helsingborg: Anders Trulsson
Anders did ride a Kawasaki Z400 but did find that very exciting. A Divvy it must be and he was proud to announce that he bought himself a red 1993 XJ600S Diversion in januari 1997. The best of it was that the bike only had driven 6400 km. It's like brand new! He will sell his Kawa in a few months. Like Jimmy already told, in Sweden most new bikes are sold with less hp than in other European countries. But this bike doesn't have that limit. Because of the weather he had only driven 33 km with it, from the guy he bought the bike to his home. He can hardly wait for the temperature to rise.. |
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Sweden - Kumla: Lena Wallenbro [27-Jan-00]
My name is Lena Wallenbro and I live in a little town called Kumla in Sweden. My 900S did I buy in october -99, he´s red and beautiful. He´s my fourth bike and my third Yamaha and second Diversion. I ride my bike so often I can at the warmer part of the year. |
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Sweden - Orebro: Gunilla Ahlund [13-Jan-00]
Hello. My name is Gunilla Ahlund and I live in Orebro in Sweden. I have bought my XJ900 Diversion in september last year. It's a 1998 model and it's a blue one. This will be my third summer with mc and this is also my 3rd bike. I started with a Yamaha Virago 535. I still have a HD Sportster 883 and now I also have a blue fine Yamaha XJ900 Diversion. |
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Sweden - Ronneby: Jimmy Kjellson
I had some nice e-mail's conversations with Jimmy. He has a red 1992 XJ600S Diversion and rides a lot with it, not only in Sweden but also in the rest of Europe. I told him about the Swedisch bikers I have seen last year in France. The drive straight from the boot directly non-stop to south of France, arriving more dead than alive on the camping. I was also suprised to see that a lot of them have heavy machines (1000cc or more). On one think we both agree, Swedisch people like beer! Due to the weather conditions in Sweden the motor season is a lot shorter than in the rest of Europe. Jimmy has plans to go to France in 1996.
After reading my talking about the low powered Diversion XJ600S, Jimmy told me something about the situation in Sweden. In Sweden most new bikes are sold with less hp that in other European countries. That's because the insurance is much cheaper for these low powered machines. About 99% of the people buy such a machine, make the first 1000 km with it and than remove the things that limits the power. Illegal of course but it seems to be a silent agreement between the bikers and the insurance companies. For as he knows nobody has been caught for this delict.
The Swedish version of the Diversion XJ600S has only 50 hp. The only thing that limits the power is a thicker rubber between the carburators and the valves. It takes about one hour to get rid of these extra rubber. Another more extreme example: The original Honda Fireblade 900 has 125 hp but the Swedish version has only 50. Only one hour work gives you 75 hp extra! |
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Sweden - Stockholm: Roger Sandberg [04-Feb-00]
I own a XJ600s -98 Dark red metallic. Used to own a Suzuki GSX400FWS-84 that was stolen spring -99. Problem was: we had booked ferries etc. for Isle of man and this was only two weeks away. So we quickly bought an XJ600 and it worked fine during the whole trip. We did about 5000km in four weeks. The only problem with this bike is checking and filling oil all the time. Mine consumed 1,5 litres before the first service and Yamaha claims this is normal! |
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Sweden - Stockholm: Peter Sederlin [07-Aug-97]
Peter wrote: I use my Diversion almost every day (except for the winter) both back and forward to work and touring. |
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Sweden - Stockholm: Klas Ahlin [29-Jul-97]
Klas works a MIS at Telia Passagen, a Swedish ISP and is the very proud owner of a red Divvy 600 -96. |
