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06-03-2008, 11:04 AM
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One Liter Duc Eater
Member #6676
Posts: 710
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Land of the Long White Cloud
Sportsbike: '98 TLR
Riding Experience: a few hours here an there
Trader Rating: (8)
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 I'd have an SV650 as a ride around town or buy one (ready to race) as they have their own class here - a couple friends have a lot of fun doing this But it ends there for me. I definately wouldn't buy one to replace the tiller. A mate has the SV1 but only cause he's a short arse and can't touch the ground sitting on the tiller There is no after the TLR for me, but I'll buy an RC8 or the 1098R as a track whore, when I've saved enough
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06-03-2008, 11:57 AM
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Member #301
Posts: 7,862
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: long beach, ca
Sportsbike: 97 tls, 05 sv650, 87 kxOdeath IS SOLD!
Riding Experience: 22 yrs
Trader Rating: (90)
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i love my SV. 20K miles without issues, 50 mpg,
wheelies as easy on the TL, likes to turn... im glad i went with the upright model and id recommend it to anyone who needs a good all around daily rider. sorry you didnt like it. how bout a picture of your replacement  your right, the suspension needs some love, and its not a screamer but ive gone on the twisties with guys from the zone with my sv and there TL's. the sv does just fine. 
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06-03-2008, 12:26 PM
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Member #38
Posts: 3,604
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Kingsport, TN
Sportsbike: 01 929
Riding Experience: Not Enough
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I pick up the replacement Friday. Have to drive a few hundred to pick it up.
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06-03-2008, 04:08 PM
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Member #301
Posts: 7,862
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: long beach, ca
Sportsbike: 97 tls, 05 sv650, 87 kxOdeath IS SOLD!
Riding Experience: 22 yrs
Trader Rating: (90)
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cool. that will be a fun bike.
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06-03-2008, 09:42 PM
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Chief Moderator for my kids Julia & Kristen
Member #260
Posts: 7,368
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Parker, CO
Sportsbike: '97 TL1000S for 8 years, Now an '06 FZ-1
Riding Experience: Into the old guy zone...
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Odd. My last track day the instructors were all on SV650s and they had no problem flying by all of us
 After riding N2's SV, I think it would be the perfect bike for the sub 100 mph road and for track days on anything but the really fast horsepower tracks. The Streets of Willow, and Buttonwillow too for that matter, would be great SV tracks. The SV is the kind of bike that is a giant killer as long as it is tight enough that they can't pull the horsepower card. The SV felt chuckable, a bike I could simply grab by the scruff of the neck and ride the shit out of, soft spongy suspension or not. All that said, lazy bastard that I am, sometimes I just love pulling the throttle cable on my modded FZ1 using the damn horsepower card. 
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06-03-2008, 10:38 PM
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Pygmy looking for a new name
 
Member #2230
Posts: 15,716
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: DFW
Sportsbike: 2003 Yamaha FZ1, 1998 KTM 250 EXC
Riding Experience: 9
Trader Rating: (22)
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Whats funny though Duken, is that a quick look at the specs will show that all but the Gixxer 1K are lighter than the SV650, and the 1K only has an additional 2 lbs over the SV.
 Must be that mass centralization V-Twin thing. 
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06-04-2008, 07:15 AM
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Member #38
Posts: 3,604
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Kingsport, TN
Sportsbike: 01 929
Riding Experience: Not Enough
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Not everyone can be comfortable on every bike and for me its a sv650. I traded bike and rode a old street triple with bent bars smoother than I could ride my own. Zx9r same way same weekend of riding. The reach to the clip ons felt all kinds of wrong in agressive riding. I thought of the bar conversion, but didnt want to drop value on a nice little bike and possible still not like it.
Im not the only one. I posted a thread on SVrider too, and there were several owners come foreward saying they are having the same issue. Of course the blame is being tossed around tires and suspension probably still, but I dont doubt a bit it was me not being able to find a comfort zone between me and the suspension without throwing alot more money into a bike I wasnt all that thrilled with to begin with.
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06-04-2008, 07:38 AM
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Member #2058
Posts: 3,058
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Eureka ca A.K.A=The Friggn BOONIES
Sportsbike: TLS-THE DEADSEXY ONE!!
Riding Experience: 22 yrs riding street
Trader Rating: (21)
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Did you ever swap out stock tires? I put some Pilot Powers on my wifes.. wholly crap... the bike handled and did not wallow any longer. Crazy how just the tires made such a HUGE difference. Sorry to hear it did not work for ya.
I too love my wifes bike almost as much as my TL. I did put a stage 1 kit in the carbs and the full race system, and k&n, and heli bars on it. The front is a bit soft, back worked ok. That thing felt like a bicycle on steroids under me when i rode it!
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Scorpio SE-i500 system,TLR MOTOR, pc2,yosh full system w/titanium cans ,(thanks 00tiller) k+N filter, UFO tail light kit-sweet! Corbin seat,Heli Bars, Throttle miester, six pot tlr caliper system, dble bubble screen,Galfer ss brake lines front&rear,tl tank protector,Bitubo rear shock-thanks Origin8tor!,clear clutch cover, CRG Levers,clear tailight lens-new paint, front end reworked by Aftershocks, fresh Powdercoated rims and front Wave rotors via TODD at Cal sportbike,as well as a SPEEDO HEALER from him,  ,fan mod-thanks et79,gpi gear indicator w/ATRE-thanks again cal sportbike. MY CUSTOM R/R WIRING HARNESS TO GET CHARGING SYSTEM UP TO PAR! check frequent mod section out!!
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06-04-2008, 07:54 AM
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Member #38
Posts: 3,604
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Kingsport, TN
Sportsbike: 01 929
Riding Experience: Not Enough
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Yeah I put a set of Diablos on it.
636 rear shock raised rear 1 in jet kit cam swap 9.5 springs and spacers rear geared +2 in the rear Most of that within a month of owning it. I just put the jet kit over the winter. Most that had the bars love them, seems most that had the clipons did bigger conversions to the front end. Maybe if I had bought the other model I would have liked them more. ? ahh 2 more days 
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06-09-2008, 08:26 AM
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Chief Moderator for my kids Julia & Kristen
Member #260
Posts: 7,368
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Parker, CO
Sportsbike: '97 TL1000S for 8 years, Now an '06 FZ-1
Riding Experience: Into the old guy zone...
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That 929 looks very sweet. It is perhaps the sharpest handling of the Honda literbikes with aweseome front end feel. I think you are gonna love it for showing tail light to lesser riders on newer hardware.
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