SVR Special

[zunkus]

Met my friend Ray yesterday and he was on his special SV. If anything deserves an R after its name this does. Check it out...
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/zunkus/Ray_s%20SVR/RaysSVR.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/zunkus/Ray_s%20SVR/IMG_0143.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/zunkus/Ray_s%20SVR/IMG_0145.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/zunkus/Ray_s%20SVR/IMG_0147.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/zunkus/Ray_s%20SVR/IMG_0150.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/zunkus/Ray_s%20SVR/IMG_0151.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/zunkus/Ray_s%20SVR/IMG_0152.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/zunkus/Ray_s%20SVR/IMG_0153.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/zunkus/Ray_s%20SVR/IMG_0155.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/zunkus/Ray_s%20SVR/IMG_0160.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/zunkus/Ray_s%20SVR/IMG_0161.jpg

[mister c]

Lovin That front end, must have cost more than the bike's worth

[Skip]

That is one mean machine! 8)

[plowsie]

Looks like a pointy headlight on it, naked conversion too, very good loooking bike.

[petevtwin650]

Some of it is interesting, but the seat locaters are pants. Rear brake is nice, but it's got the standard horrible chainguard. As for the lights, they look like they've come off a Securicor vehicle.

Forks are actually too meaty. Like on a Bimota.

7 out of 10.

[Malfunctioning-eddie]

Met my friend Ray yesterday and he was on his special SV. If anything deserves an R after its name this does. Check it out...


Nice - out of interest what make at the front fairing lowers? they don't look like the original suzi ones - a bit better in fact

[ThEGr33k]

It looks nice! But it looks like its been lowered too much. Needs much more ride height imo... :)

[Grinch]

Another one I need to look at when I get home.

[ThEGr33k]

Another one I need to look at when I get home.



I have that issue at work too :(

[markmoto]

Ooh thats nice he has splashed the cash on that like it alot bet it handles like a dream. :cool:

[kwak zzr]

very very nice indeed :p

[Dangerous Dave]

Nice - out of interest what make at the front fairing lowers? they don't look like the original suzi ones - a bit better in fact
They are 2wheeljunkies fairings, come as as a top and bottom set only (although nolonger available) and will not work with standard fairings.

Ooh thats nice he has splashed the cash on that like it alot bet it handles like a dream. :cool:
Bet it doesn't, waste of great suspension!

[Girth]

Nice......




















For a curvey :)

[Grinch]

Ok, not keen on the lights and I'm rather confused by the seat, but the rest of it is rather lovely. At least its not the same old stuff.

[ady]

awsome!

[dizzyblonde]

Have to agree with Pete, the seat is pants,hes obviously a fair weather rider being in a nice foreign sunny climate, but bet that battery gets peed on when he gets caught in a shower. Funnily enough without reading anyone elses posts I thought...flippin load a money but the scrooge kept the chainguard. I likey the Brembo rear brake set up and those nice front forks-never heard of them but they looksy nice

[pencil shavings]

Ok, not keen on the lights and I'm rather confused by the seat, but the rest of it is rather lovely. At least its not the same old stuff.

Yeah, the seat looks like its got springs or somthing on it like a hardtale??

[dizzyblonde]

don't know what that steerin dampers about, is it really needed? I don't need one...but I seem to remember one of Zunkus's vids and his mate was a hardcore rider...wonder if its the same one?

[shifter]

I can't believe he's done all that to it, and not fitted a tail tidy?
does look nice though:D
Or small indicators?

[Tim in Belgium]

I like it, a good way of providing more leg room, lifting the seat. Something different too.

How does he find it rides Zunkus?

[Demonz]

I like all of it except the tail lights. One of the nicest I have seen in fact - even like the colour.

[zunkus]

OK, loads of questions here. Be kind gentle folk, he's a nice lad, true sometimes I just can't understand him. Normal people would start to modify the bike by changing the indicators, cut off the horrible mudguard and put in a gold Regina chain. Oh no not our friend Ray, he goes fitting in a superbike spec front and rear suspension which as someone here pointed out cost more than the bike itself, when new!

The fairing is from twowheeljunkies correct.

The bike has been lowered as Ray is erm a bit vertically challenged, so don't blame a man for trying to make his own bike fit him better.

He likes what he did to his front lights, only uses it for sunday blasts and because he likes to thinker so good enough for him, good enough period.

The standard chain is quite a good chain actually, I challenge anyone to say otherwise, the weather is kind to us over here so lasts well if given some care, if it didn't cut it believe me he would have changed it.

You don't have to be a fair weather rider over here, we hardly ever get rain. I know you lot are jealous but believe me I'm more jealous of your lovely great roads.

The distance piece on the seat is because at first Ray lowered the seat right down, he's making another one but in the meantime he's playing with what he's got to find a better position for himself.

The bike handles like a dream and goes as well, he's made his own larger airbox with RAM-air which works. You wouldn't believe its a 650 twin. It sounds different too when on the move, I'm guessing the airbox is the main difference.

He is a hardcore rider, regularly goes to sicily, neighbouring island, with his brother and cousin on track. I surely can't keep up with him, nor my brother and he's a fast one.

[r4ce_e3nd]

Nice bike (suspension and all the stuff)!

But.
Still confused about lowering the bike and then raising the seat.... Please explain. :confused:

[zunkus]

The seat. You're all right. It does look fugly. Ray knows it too. He's just playing around at the moment to find a good riding position. The Bitubo front forks aren't very tall so to make the bike work he had to lower the rear. Originally he bought those forks thinking they'll be a blessing in disguise as he's not a tall bloke so a lower bike might be more confidence inspiring for him. But making the front to rear distribution suspension balance ended up with a lower than expected bike thus the weird seat. He'll do another as soon as he finds the answer.

[northwind]

I like it... Well, there's lots on it I'd change but it's a million times better than the usual renthals-and-dual-headlights ;) I think his priorities are all sorts of messed up but he's obviously built a bike he loves. It looks reeeeally low though, I mean not just a little bit low but tooooo low, front and rear. Not a lot of clearance... I like the headlights, they're kind of cool in an odd way.

I mean, he could have taken the budget from the forks and built a bike that would almost certainly work better- Ktech or similiar internals in a GSXR fork would cost about 1/2 as much and would work brilliantly (as well? Can't say) leaving plenty of cash to bring other parts up to the same standard. Why the damper? That's just odd on a lowered bike, they're even more stable than standard, and with that quality of suspension he shouldn't ever need it unless he offroads at 100mph :smt025 (and if the roads are rough enough to justify it he should be fighting for ride height and suspension travel)

Put it this way, once I sort out my front end I reckon mine will work better as a package, but my total budget for all mods is barely more than the front forks alone. But still, it's a bit different and it's totally his bike, you have to admire that surely folks?

(something odd about the forks, they're totally different from the ones on the Bitubo website... Are they OEM off an exotic, or are they off-the-shelf? The ones Bitubo picture have external reservoirs, they look like gas forks.)

The standard chain is quite a good chain actually, I challenge anyone to say otherwise

Think it was chainguard, not chain ;)

[Ollie_07]

Good man for being different! :)

[sv-robo]

Very nice bike:thumbsup:...but very(ahem,dare i say it?)curvey:(

[zunkus]

What's wrong with curves mate?
Points are only good in presentations, and that to me is boring, my friend :)

[Alpinestarhero]

Ruddy hell, that looks like a weapon!!!!

The rear end looks very low though?

Thats one SV i wouldnt have a topbox on

Top marks to your mate :D

Matt

[dirtydog]

As for the lights, they look like they've come off a Securicor vehicle.




Nah, we never had lights like that on our vans ;)

[zunkus]

Seems like our friend Ray took your comments very seriously, he just called me on my mobile to meet him and take some more pictures to post. Said he fixed the rear seat, which seemed to bother most people here :) Pity I'm at working till 7pm. My job sucks sometimes, being a sunday and hearing all sorts of bike engines reving up from the open window and me not being out there. Well, just hate to miss my Sunday ride:(
Pictures will have to wait it seems, boss told me I'm working day duty next sunday as well! I only meet Ray on Sundays.

[Stig]

It's a special. It's not necessarily supposed to make sense. I like it.

[shonadoll]

I love it.

[kitkat]

ooh shiny