Pan European (Honda Pan European ST1100)

Member Name: madmax

Product:	Honda Pan European ST1100
Date:	13/06/00 (4982 review reads)
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Advantages: looks, comfort, reliability

Disadvantages: none

Since 1997 I have been responsible for puchasing and maintaining our fleet of six Paramedic Pan's. These bikes have proved to be ultra reliable and although they come with Honda's standard two year warranty and AA cover none of them have needed anything more than their routine servicing
(excluding accident damage).

Each bike covers about 25000 miles per year under extreme conditions so they have a very hard working life.

Ours don't carry pillions but due to the medical kit they have to carry they are loaded up to the maximum weight allowed by the manufacturer and are ridden none stop for eight hours at a time.

We also operate five BMW's and although they are older, the difference in their maintainance and running costs has proved to be significantly in favour of the Honda

The only part of the bike that is changed before it's put into sevice are the tyres ....my advice is to fit BT's as soon as possible they are superb in all conditions.

They aren't a sports bike by any stretch of the imagination but in the right hands they are more than capable of making a sportbike rider look pretty silly.

Their main job is for carrying large loads together with rider and pillion across vast distances in supreme comfort at very high speed and at this moment in time I dont think that they have an equal.

I was lucky enough to be asked to ride one from Staffordshire to Strasbourg last year and totaled about 1300 miles in a weekend thrashing around the French countryside....before we left I asked the organiser what were the arrangements for picking up broken down or stranded bikes on route ....he looked at me and said we are all going to be on Honda's we wont need one and sure enough thirty bikes and riders did the entire trip with not one mechanical fault.

The service bikes are mostly standard except they have slightly higher bars than normal and an uprated electrical syst
em in order to cope with the strobes, radio, siren, head light flasher etc

the only major disadvantage is that carrying maximum weight means rear tyres need changing every 3500 miles.

The latest have abs and traction control .....both superb bits of kit and highly reccommended ...it's the bike of the decade for my money

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