在十年前还记得，当天然气便宜，我们都在我们的口袋里有钱？Back then, Honda’s CBR250 had single-handedly made the Kawasaki Ninja 250 obsolete, so Kawi responded with the Ninja 300. Yamaha fumed, late to the party as always, and doubled down on the R3 project, while Triumph worked on a made-in-India 250 plan that ultimately went nowhere.
在中间，铃木决定尝试不同的东西。Suzuki代替市场，而不是从日本工厂带来新的小型CC机器。那辆自行车是GW250，10年左右，猜测可能是什么，为什么自行车是失败的......或者是吗？
Ahhhh, what a hulking brute. Wait, is that only a 250? Photo: Wow Motorcycles
肌肉看起来
When the GW250 hit North American markets, it was an odd mash-up. With brash B-King styling, it had muscle bike visuals—until your leering eyes dipped below that oversized headlight and noted that, instead of a muscular four-cylinder powerplant, the GW250 had a parallel twin engine. At a quick glance, it looked like a weedy leftover from the 1970s.
不可否认，GW的SOHC发动机是燃料注射的，当时，这是讨价还价自行车课程的新发展。它也是液体冷却的，但是散热器填充到框架中，发动机看起来像第一眼就会空气冷却，就像来自GS线的东西一样。
也许是故意的，也许不是。无论哪种方式，GW的长冲程引擎都不同于2010年代初与讨价还价自行车相关的人。这种设计是否带来了更多的扭矩，这是一个妥协，即许多骑手将是什么？它没。最大输出是80马力，8,500 rpm的马力，最大扭矩为2,600转/分钟。阅读了这辆自行车的当代骑行评论，他们通常会说低新利体育ios速公路，周围骑行有很多功率，但一旦你进入高速公路，就会在拿起速度时迅速耗尽蒸汽。你可以携带公路速度，但是一旦你到达那里，就没有大量加速。为了拿起速度，你真的不得不把自行车的脖子拧出，这意味着你出色的燃油经济会下降。
So, you had a bike that looked like a muscle bike mixed up with a retro tiddler. That was a bit odd, but the weirdest thing about the machine was … it was made in China.
虽然自行车在其发动机（以及过于沉重的情况下，超过400磅），但至少它看起来像一个适当的摩托车，而不是中国先前在北美销售的尺寸预算自行车。照片：哇摩托车
来自中国的日本自行车
Back in the early 2010s, we were at the tail end of the first imported batch of Chinese motorcycles. Companies with unfamiliar names were bringing containers full of low-powered dual sports, dirt bikes, scooters and even some sportbikes and cruisers into North America, with pricing half of the Japanese counterparts. Mostly these bikes ended up as rust-scabbed heaps of frustration when their owners didn’t maintain them properly or couldn’t find parts. But for those who took the time to learn how the Chinese industry worked, and how to take care of their bikes, they realized China wascapableof making proper motorcycles, as long as someone was keeping an eye on quality control.
这似乎是铃木的计划:建立自行车in China with careful supervision of the production process, and then sell said bikes all over the world at a price far lower than the entry-level machines from Japanese competitors. Indeed, reports on the GW often said that, for a Chinese bike, the finish was actually pretty decent, and I know that I certainly never heard any tales of unreliability about them. At one of the magazines I worked with, we ran a GW as a long-term tester for a whole riding season, and there were no problems at all with the bike, even when it served as a two-up tourer.
Speaking of which: Because the GW was made in a Chinese factory, it also came with a decent accessory line, far stronger than many other budget bikes. The Chinese motorcycle market is extremely practical, and offers all sorts of utilitarian add-ons that you can buy on the cheap at small local shops. That ethic was carried over to the GW250, and Suzuki had a pretty healthy line of bolt-on parts that made the bike more useful.
苏兹库在GW平台周围建成了一系列，但他们不是北美的大卖家。但其他市场看到了这个价值，你仍然可以在亚洲购买GW系列。照片：哇摩托车
高希望
铃木不仅仅有一个预算友好的裸体自行车。多年来，铃木扩展了GW阵容，包括一个半公平的版本，一个完全公平的Sportbike，甚至在一些市场中的一个adv-ish自行车，轴承看起来像它被剥夺了V-Strom的整流罩，then shrunk to fit the 250. That model didn’t make it to our market, but if you look online, you can find reviews from Europe.
GSX250R Sportbike是那些使其成为北美的旋转自行车中的最后一个;它最后列出了on Suzuki’s US websitein 2018. The Chinese 250s might have made money for Suzuki, but they were never as popular as Honda’s 250 series in particular, or the other made-in-Japan competition. Suzuki’s pricing was good, but the bikes themselves weren’t enough to draw buyers in. In Asian markets, customers were happy to have a bike that had只是足够的表演e，看起来有点凉爽。在北美，他们希望随着肌肉骑自行车的表现而过度的性能能力。
It’s too bad, because if it was here now, it would be the perfect bike for riders who want to save money on gas, andcan’t find a Navi at their local Honda dealership。但北美的损失是亚洲的收益，而其他国家仍然可以购买GW250（在inazuma徽章下）。结果，如果您想要一个可靠的可靠的机器来在全球范围内旅行，您可能真的找到中文铃木的一个不错的选择。配件的选择和体面的构建质量意味着您应该能够为长途运行套装GW250，并将其与当地采购部件一起遍布地球仪。
那么这些照片中的机器呢？这是乔治亚州的2017年型号Wow Motorcycles那with 7 miles on the odometer, and a price tag of $4,460. Um. I can remember when you could easily find these things new for that price, or less, in Canada, with a pretty decent warranty. But with 7 miles on the odo, this is hardly used-up, is it? Is it worth the $4,460? Depends how much you want the enjoyment of a small-cc bike with that new-bike smell. You can certainly find an excellent used machine for that price with far superior performance, even in the world of COVIDnomics.
