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47 Comments
Waiting for these to start hitting the used market. Someone will do it. Lol. Loving the info coming out on these bikes and the hype seems correct.
Well done. Seems like Cove has come up with the lightweight ADV bike we've been asking for and falling on deaf ears. I like my T7, but that Cove checks so many boxes. And those snowbikes look like a hoot!
Another excellent real world review to corroborate Jimmy Lewis, Tyler (eveRide) and a few others. I'd like to see a comparo of the Kove 450 with my 2003 KTM 640 Adventure. 20 years difference in models but what about performance for its intended purpose? Would be interesting since they're both thumpers.
The criticism of the power band is ignoring the fact that this is designed for Rally use, not Idaho single track. There is a huge difference. Watch any Rally video, they are mid to high speed hare scramble type races. No 1st gear technical riding, no grunting up a slow steep incline where you need bottom end torque. They are 200 to 350 miles per day across varied terrain. in 4 to 6 hours.
The Kove 450 is not an ADV bike it is an enduro bike.
Have you ridden the Tuareg? How does it fit in? Between the two?
Is the gearbox comparable to old jap dualsports, like the xr 600, xt 600. If there, then it is perfectly acceptable.
I took a Kove demo ride at the Giant Loop Rally in early June, I was totally impressed.
Not buying a Chinese bike. Sorry. Not Sorry.
dying to try a Kove 450, hoping it makes it to Europe and all the crazy emission regulations we have at the moment… great video! I learnt a few features I did not know!
How about the 690? I mean that is the one right between those two.
Okay don’t get me wrong but how was the Big Dick road you’re heading to?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 It was showing on your navigation while on the T7 just when you hit those two tunnels🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Great review gents👌👌👌
I assume you have to have a Big D place to ride there🤣🤣🤣🤣Take care from Arizona
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About the thin carbon bashplate: It's the easiest thing in the world to lay in the inside a few layers of cevlar cloth with a suitable resin and it'll be a (literally) bulletproof bashplate. I've replicated my plastic/metal bashplate in a 990 Adventure R and that required a LOT more work to get it there, but in the end, the carbon/cevlar bashplate, was the lightest and toughest plate on a 990, period. It would take rocks and stair hits without a scratch! It cost be about 300 Euros to make in materials.
The T7 is a nice bike and definitely 'one of' the most dirt bike ADVs out there. It is not only heavier than a dirt bike, it's top heavy. A bike can be heavy but be more manageable when it has a low center of gravity. The T7 has a high center of gravity. Consequentially, the Ducati DesertX which weighs more than the Yamaha T7, has a lower center of gravity for its mass. I only mention the DesertX as an example of how bikes handle depending on center of gravity for a given bike, weight being somewhat distantly similar.
Dirt bike vs. Adventure bike?
Ok, let's get started:
Kove every 2000 km maintenance
T7 service every 10,000 km
T7 engine durable.
Yamaha has many workshops worldwide.
Spare parts supply.
Long-term care.
“political situation” danger of war in Taiwan, embargo ..
Definitely T7 for traveling on unpaved roads.
and in the near future, Kove will be allowed to be driven in fewer and fewer countries because it is too loud. As an example in Tyrol Austria.
Kove is more an adventurized dual sport but the adventure unicorn still does not exist because it has to be a light twin under 400lbs, 400 to 550 cc range. T7 is bomb proof but out dated. Aprilia Tuareg is the current bench mark.
Nice vid!! 👍 In you're final statement i'm missing the Husqvarna 701 or KTM 690 that are also the ones to choose from in a comparison in this weight, costs and performance class. Or don't you agree?
13 min in Dzus fasteners! are great!
Ok what's the 4th bike? Honda or older Husqvarna? We like info. Years, size ect…
Might get to see you late spring. Base out of Ronan. See where work has me.
it looks like Kove offers a rack option for the 450 rally
I have my DRZ400S for the dirt and my VStrom 1000 for the road (asphalt or gravel). I’m set
I'd be curious how a 690/701 fits into the T7/Kove 450 comparo. I just picked up a 701 and coming from an Africa Twin, it's a massive improvement in the dirt. The slab to/from the SF Bay Area to the eastern Sierra wasn't bad either.
Nice vid! That Kove looks pretty legit…
Lowered bikes are always harder to wheelie. The high suspension one will be much easier to lift a wheel on.
Honestly, the entire comparo is biased. The close to 10k$ limit is blown anyway as the Kove Rally Factory you used is (at least here in Switzerland) closer to 16k$.
So the real comparison should be between the Kove and a Dakar-proven Rally bike like the KTM 450 Rally. Now that would probably be a totally different outcome.
Don't compare Rally to ADV bikes, flatly said.
Насколько большая вероятность при падении повредить бак ? 😮
Where did the great graphics set for the T7 come from???
Dat Honda 500 😀
Do you think dropping 1 tooth on the drive sprocket would help the low end a little bit?
I like the Kove a lot. I have a KTM 890R and I would love to have to Kove for the dirt bike quality to it. Would love to go from the garage to the trail and home again while having loads of fun on the trail. The 890 I have is fun, but you wouldn't tackle the stuff you would with a single cylinder 350 or 450. Having 8 gallons of fuel seems awesome as well having run out of fuel once or twice on the trail. Time will tell if it passes the test.
I agree, but the 690 is much easier to adventurize. Loading, pannier racks, etc. for moto camping.
You cannot get a street title for these motorcycles in most states. I live in Indiana and there is no longer any way to covert an off road title to a motorcycle title.
Apples to oranges comparison. You are not going to ride Kove down the highway like you would the T7 and you wouldn't ride the T7 where you would the Kove. The T7 is a true ADV bike. Doesn't matter because the first time you drop it and break something or it breaks down you will never get parts.
I want this KOVE !!!
You probably are going at a higher speed with the T7 in those corners 😊
Some Chinese motorcycle enthusiasts built this brand and 450 rally initially for Dakar racing
Good review. I think you guys hit it right on the head. It's not a T7 or a KTM690, but a dirtbike with a mini fairing and long range to boot. Perfect size bike for the offroad guy that has a 250 or 300 2 stroke singletrack bike !
I am actually out of Missoula. I had a 2014 690 Enduro for over 45K. loved it. bought a 890….its awesome, but I miss the lighter bike. If you have any experience with the 690/701… I'd love your thoughts of this Kove vs. the 690/701…. mostly ADV /dual sport stuff, alot of BDRs
12:56 Dzus fastener, also known as a turnlock fastener or quick-action panel fastener, is a type of proprietary quarter-turn spiral cam lock fastener often used to secure skin panels on aircraft and other high-performance vehicles. It is named after its inventor William Dzus
With such high revs, do they bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz through your feet, legs, balls and bum? I'm having real issues with my G310GS doing that around 5000 revs up.
I think that Kove inadvertently stumbled into a segment of motorcycle market which there is no competitors. When Honda, Yamaha and KTM realize this, they will find Kove competiting in other segments.
It would be interesting if Kove make a sumo with the same engine.
Adoro kove refogada com alho !
Both slow and heavy