Does Honda's XL750 Transalp live up to the hype? | Long-term test

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[marianovadillo]

Why is everyone complaining so much? Everytime I see any review for every bike it's just a bunch of people complaining about the tiniest details as if they were professional top 1% riders where every detail is important in their performance

I feel it's an first world country thing to complain about everything and it creates so much confusion for so many riders around the world who are not doing the the kind of rides where suspension, tubeless tires and what not are going to be noticeable and most likely if they are, they just flow with it. Most people in other countries just want a bike to take them from point A to B with reliability and good pricing and "fun factor" or "cool factor" isn't a thing.

This bike (as most japanese bikes) is that. It takes you where you want to go with cheap and available parts... and as long as you are not doing curves at insane speeds, extreme offroad and jumps it will be okay, as most middleweight adv bikes will. Enjoy your god damn bikes for fuck's sake.

Edit: When I mean everyone is everyone on the comment section.

[flatcapcaferacer]

I'm good with different experience level testers doing these long term reviews and appreciate the reviewers telling us up front what their riding experience has been. Not everybody has 20 years of testing and everyone has start somewhere. I thought he did a good job and answering the questions asked.

It is understandable that only four years riding limits the reviewers to do a lot comparisons to competitors but that is okay with thses reviews . Actually newish riders often bring out a unique perspective with less emotional baggage of more experienced can bring.

[CRFLAus]

Having owned an Africa Twin, this bike seems really good. Nearly as much power a lot less weight. Also standard tyres are underrated, you'd be surprised what you can do on stock tyres if it's not muddy. For the price point this sounds like a really good bike. I couldn't give 2 sh!ts about cruise control on a motorcycle unless all you ride is highway. People in the comments are so fussy and picky about silly stuff, go buy a GS.

[scubarubanzaii]

My dad’s been a dirt biker exclusively for about 50 years.

He recently got a Transalp and now runs that as his only motorcycle. It’s capable.

(We are Utah residents and have been all over)

[billparke]

These videos are well done. Thanks, MCN.

[izzy]

All these people moaning about tubeless tires dont understand you dont need em for going to the coffe shop, Be realistic about your riding style and most importantly skill. Its a fantastic bike despite the suspension and tires being small hurdles. If you wanted a bike with better suspension and and tubeless tires then youre not going to buy this bike anyway.

[bretonnian]

Really enjoy these MCN segments, thanks!!

[matthew]

V2 of this bike is going to be awesome.

[timjones]

I love my xl750, it’s the best bike I’ve had

[podunkman]

Great bike with limits:
- Very budget suspension
- Tube tires
Cruise Control would be nice to have gadget.

[marcoaguiar]

Im just going to add something unrelated but important you guys should make the subtitles available on your vids for the ones that literally cant hear you but would very much like to...

[MikeK]

I like the guys at MCN and feel they do a "great" overall job of describing their thoughts & feelings regarding various motorcycles they test. In the end, one should use these "reviews & impressions" as a guide only and not as a final verdict.

[andrewonmyway]

Nothing about fuel consumption? That’s important today for many.

[marcusgeorge]

Possibly the headlight issue was down to rider/pannier weight causing the rear to “sink”. Instead of fiddling with the headlight perhaps just dial in additional preload on the rear to compensate this. Nice review. Thank you.

[davidrichardson]

Alp has pre load adjustable forks and rear shock pre load adjustable, so said to many people cry over stuff they don't reseach, or understand, any ways my 2024 alp is a great bike,

[swlvzpo]

Looks great in this colour. I prefer the lines of the T7, though.

[Wheelo]

I have ordered the electronic cruise control from Veridian Cruise. Not surprisingly they are a month behind in deliveries. But this will fix the biggest problem.

[paulcoverdale]

Had mine in the late 80s an ideal bike for travel, workin around London an up to Birmingham, Manchester etc, awsome wkender, reliable an great all rounder.
If I could, this would be my first choise again.❤❤❤🙏🙏💎💎🪬🪬🥃🥃🇬🇧🇬🇧

[dgomes]

A road focused version with 19/17 inch wheels and tubeless tires and 4 pot callipers with cruise and it would be a nice all rounder and light travel bike

[whomcares]

Tubeless tyres are great for highway running. If you ride off road in hard terrain the tubes just save you so much hassle and time. The amount of times we’ve had to try and fit tunes to tubeless rims due to dents and buckles cousins measured in weeks. The tubed bikes just save pain off road long term. Until you’ve regularly done this type of riding you just don’t know. The bikes with tubeless and TPM systems also don’t go well with tubes either. I bought the CRF. 1100l specifically as I need tubed rims where I ride in Australia