I'm Mike, and I live in the south of Sweden. I work in IT and I have loved being on two wheels since I was young. It started with a Suzuki K50 at 15 years old, then life got in the way and it was not until my late 20s that I started thinking about motorcycles. I have gone through a few of them - Kawasaki Vulcan S, BMW F800R, Kawasaki VN1700, and a roaringly tuned and deafening Harley Davidson Fat Bob.
In early 2026 I went to my local motorcycle dealer looking for an adventure bike. I had a fairly fixed idea of what I wanted, which was a BMW R1200GS or R1250GS, and I was there to see what they had in stock.
One of the salesmen mentioned a brand I had not heard of. They had just signed up as an official Voge dealer, and he handed me a brochure for the DS900X. Three things caught my eye: the looks, the price, and the equipment list. They had none in stock yet, but bikes were on the way.
That was enough to get me interested. I went home and worked through every YouTube video about the bike I could find, and the more I watched the more I wanted one.
The DS900X comes with a lot as standard, such as quickshifter, full LED lights, heated grips and seat, keyless start, centre stand, luggage rack, USB outlets, switchable traction control, cornering ABS, and the list goes on. Mine also came with a five-year warranty.
For the price of the DS900X, I could compare it to a ten-year-old R1200GS which would be about the same in cost. If I were to look at the new BMW F900GS model I had to pay almost double to get the same level of equipment as the DS900X comes with stock. Worth highlighting here is that the F900GS uses the same Loncin engine as the DS900X, in a higher state of tune, which is another huge selling point for the Voge.
The test ride
The day their demo bike was ready I was there to ride it. It was cold, which turned out to be a decent way to test heated grips and a heated seat, and I signed the papers when I got back.
They told me delivery would be about two months, since they were still waiting on the bikes they had ordered. Two weeks later I got a call to say mine was ready. They had put one of their first arrivals aside for me, which I appreciated more than they probably realised.
I picked it up the next day and took the long way home, in lovely spring weather and with a huge grin on my face.
Where this site came from
Buying an unfamiliar brand is mostly a bet on the dealer, and mine has been good so far. What I did find unnecessarily difficult was locating the owner's manual, and texts about problems and fixes.
The first thing that happened to mine was self-inflicted. On the day I bought it I topped up the tank past the first shutoff, the way I had always been able to do on my old Harley, and saturated the charcoal canister. That became the first troubleshooting page on this site.
Everything here grew out of that pattern: something happens, I go looking for a straight answer, and I write down what I find and where I found it.