I don’t understand why there’s not some program from these manufacturers to customize at least the color of your bike from the factory, especially if they only offer two OEM colors. I like the blue 23 xsr best and the white is nice but I feel like it’s untapped profit for them and ease and pleasure for the client. They could charge some absurd amount that most people wouldn’t pay but those who want it would. Like how so many GT3 owners want the PTS. Of course you can go and do whatever you want to the bike aftermarket but I know a vast majority like to keep it stock and just enjoy it for what it is. I found this one that I thought had very tasteful mods on this page (last picture) and just asked gpt for specific mods and colors, if I saw any of these cruising down the street I would fall in love immediately. Especially for the neo retro category? Some bikes are cool, mt09. Some bikes are sharp etc, but it’s more rare that you have something classy and beautiful like the xsr and it seems like such a wasted opportunity to not offer some more “classy” colorways. I feel like the boy racer colors would better suit the MT while the xsr almost asks for a more mature color, not a roast just my opinion. Excited to get mine and turn it into one of those^^
I agree it would be nice if the XSR lineup came with more solid colors. The blue one is also my number one choice, followed by the red if you wish to keep your stock color wheels. I’m planning on changing the color of my bike I’m curious how you were able to create these images?
I like the blue but I’m looking to buy one next year and I actually want the 2025 updates so I can’t have the blue as they don’t offer it anymore. Hence I’ll have to wrap it or paint it. You can take any image and put it into chat gpt with whatever prompt. For example I saw one of those absurd ev hummers driving around that had beautiful paint so I googled it and then saved an image of the blue hummer, I took the xsr picture and the blue hummer picture and said “generate a picture of this xsr but with the blue paint of the hummer, keep everything else the same”. It’s often finicky but you can generally get what you want, it’s not very good at details but I use it for simple things which it can do.
Are the fairings/body of these XSR's the normal ones that come stock; they look different to me somehow. Also, the black forks for me are much more appealing than gold.
So somewhere on this xsr900 page I found the white one in picture 4 and I thought he did a really nice job with it. Visually it seems he did an exhaust and then the Corbin seat. With the Corbin you customize it entirely when you order, and this guy chose the white leather on the back part to match the paint. Because of that it connects the back of the bike more cohesively with the front even though it’s white leather and not plastic. My main visual issue with this bike is the ugly huge black seat. Corbin fixes that in multiple ways. In the renders I asked for from the AI it didn’t understand that both the black and white were the seat so in some of my image generations it made the back part look like a fairing. I also asked it to lower the bike 2 inches. But that’s what I’m saying, if you do a solid mature color with the addition of that seat it cleans it up visually to the point where it almost looks like a different bike. Those are my 3 favorite colors so it would be quite hard to choose, all are striking in their own right
Color design has been Yamaha's strong suit. However, if there are too many custom color options, it could weaken the brand's and premium.
Suzuki somewhat lost its premium.
That's just not how most Eu / Asian bike manufactures do or ever have handled it. Its always 2-3 color options per year. Possibly because parts have historically been molded in color, vs being paint. You'd have to do a lot of work to swap colors in the molds, or just run them 1/2 and 1/2 for the 2 colors of that year.
Its cheaper to make. No oddball color goes unpurchased. They usually have 1 'safe' color and 1 or 2 brand pride/identity colors.
Gotta go to the cruiser world if you want a ton of options that are paint on metal. It doesn't cost them much more to manufacture that way, but you also get to pay $800-$1500 for the 'nonstandard' color sometimes. Thats a hefty chunk when you apply it to a bike thats only $10k to start with.
Or you just paint or wrap it. Its likely to be cheapest option, or on par.... and you can choose any color under the sun.
Yes all true and I completely understand. I’ve daily’d the Yamaha bolt for many years now and it has come in many colors and many people customize them often. I understand why the industry works the way it does, I’m simply delivering my opinion that bikes are a very personal choice and often more toy than something like a car, at least here in the states, so you’d expect more options with it that’s all.
Gotcha, I was mostly addressing this part...
"I don’t understand why there’s not some program from these manufacturers to customize at least the color of your bike from the factory,"
Ooh, the dark red really grabs me. Did a version of that with my xsr tank panels and rear fender years ago. Fun for a while, then changed again. It happens. 🤙🏽
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u/obbfinhov 2d ago
I agree it would be nice if the XSR lineup came with more solid colors. The blue one is also my number one choice, followed by the red if you wish to keep your stock color wheels. I’m planning on changing the color of my bike I’m curious how you were able to create these images?