Do you still have an SV?

[Dicky Ticker]

The day a manufacturer makes the ideal all round bike,to fit every bodies tastes,at the right price it will be totally ignored as apparently the SV is the best thing since sliced bread-----------------------LISTEN TO YOURSELVES-----------------------don't you have a wish list??????There are loads of better bikes than the SV but they may not suit your needs or circumstance. Lets be honest if money was no object you would have a custom bike built for you,after all most people are not happy with the standard SV and start changing bits here and there,cosmetics,tyres, sprockets,suspension to name a few--------bringing us back to a custom built bike.
In truth,how many people have a completely standard SV complying to original build and equipment.

Variety is the spice of life

[neio79]

so what your saying is......you ride like a big girl in the wet, and you want some confidence inspiring rubber;)


:( yeah thats about the long and short of it. I am 200% diferent in the dry compared to the wet.

[dizzyblonde]

:( yeah thats about the long and short of it. I am 200% diferent in the dry compared to the wet.


well, perhaps you ought to get out more in different conditions, and your confidence will grow.You can't just blame tyres
No good having a super duper bike if you can't ride it to its full potential in most conditions. Although I joke about polishing mine and keeping them pristine, its only a vehicle after all, and its meant to be ridden!

[neio79]

well, perhaps you ought to get out more in different conditions, and your confidence will grow.You can't just blame tyres
No good having a super duper bike if you can't ride it to its full potential in most conditions. Although I joke about polishing mine and keeping them pristine, its only a vehicle after all, and its meant to be ridden!

I have not done bad on it 7K in a year in most conditions. I also have the CG for winter.

And trust me i dont want 105BHP through the rear in mid jan on ice LOL.

[fizzwheel]

You can't just blame tyres


Actually I tend to agree with Neio about the Sporty Bridgestones. I had 014's on my GSXR and they were terrible in the wet, once they lost temperature it really was orrible to ride on. They had grip but you couldnt feel what the bike was doing because the feedback was non existant.

[G]

I dont have an SV anymore, I wouldnt mind another one.

I have the 600rr now which does everything I want it do to, it could do with a better tank range though....I would worry touring in europe on it incase I got caught short for petrol.

[dizzyblonde]

I have not done bad on it 7K in a year in most conditions. I also have the CG for winter.

And trust me i dont want 105BHP through the rear in mid jan on ice LOL.

oh aye fergot you got a CG, thing is how the hell do you get on with it, having the other in comparison:confused:

[Skip]

You know what twin to get... Aprilia :D (falco if you are cool). :cool:
Nah I am cooler than that - a Tuono ;)

[Skip]

I dont have an SV anymore, I wouldnt mind another one.
I would have another naked curvy - I really liked mine - want to keep heading up the CC tree before I come back down though :)

[Dicky Ticker]

Sports tyres have different make-up to standard touring tyres. Different treads and compounds for different conditions where as the standard touring tyre is a compromise of most conditions you are likely to have in normal riding. You wouldn't ride in the wet with slicks or even sports,you change to a set of wet tyres.
There are performance variations in different sports/touring/road tyres and even taking the same tyres but on two different bikes can be the world of a difference.

[dizzyblonde]

I must say, for all the bikes that Im Indoors has, even after riding the Raptor all summer, when he got on Suzy after we rebuilt her and took her out(even with me on the back) the grin he had on his face was a mile wide
:smt040
''I could have some real fun now the suspensions been sorted, still a girls bike though''

One of the reasons he gave her up was that he'd started to go a bit too far, in the way of, the SV is so forgiving he could do some really stupid stuff and get away with it....now do the same on the Raptor and it would eat him for breakfast, not that he hasn't tried, he likes to get the extreme out of a bike, or he ain't interested

[neio79]

oh aye fergot you got a CG, thing is how the hell do you get on with it, having the other in comparison:confused:

Its funny, the CG is more confident in the wet. probably down to the tyres bein more up to wet cold conditions. I can throw it around so easily, almost like a supermoto bike.

You do notice the dif jumping back onto the kwak. like brakes, almost put myself over the bars first ride on the kwak after due to the CG having drums and me getting use to pulling hard on them.

Honestly yhe CG makes me giggle everytime i go on it.

[yorkie_chris]

Lol CG drums... early form of ABS :-P

[kwak zzr]

I had a CG for a while, little bikes are a hoot to ride! ev now and again i will take my dads yamaha cygnus x 125 scooter for a bimble :) it always shocks cars off the lights :)

[neio79]

Lol CG drums... early form of ABS :-P

:p yeah cos ther are working, oh no now they are not. commonly used in conjunction with heels to slow the thing down. lol

[dizzyblonde]

Its funny, the CG is more confident in the wet. probably down to the tyres bein more up to wet cold conditions. I can throw it around so easily, almost like a supermoto bike.

You do notice the dif jumping back onto the kwak. like brakes, almost put myself over the bars first ride on the kwak after due to the CG having drums and me getting use to pulling hard on them.

Honestly yhe CG makes me giggle everytime i go on it.

Im Indoors jumps on the SRX for winter, its a proper comedy bike. Wafer thin tyres, a whole 33bhp for a 600cc, maybe lighter than a CG, kickstart, hmm tyres verging on the balding..lol, no back brake for a while, you can power slide em round corners for fun....big difference from the 115bhp man eater..lol

[neio79]

Yep winter hacks are great fun you rag them and dont have to worry. In some respect the CG is more fun on the back country roads to work.

[dizzyblonde]

Yep winter hacks are great fun you rag them and dont have to worry. In some respect the CG is more fun on the back country roads to work.



THe SRX has had many a moment when its taken on the big boys and won:cheers: its cornering skills are unbelieveable and it don't half shift for a piece of rusty bolts:cool:

[philbut]

My winter hack weighs 200kg and has 100bhp :p The ammo crates welded to the side serve as very good crash bungs though!

[STRAMASHER]

My winter hack is a SV:-dd:smt003

Wearing its "urban winter camoflage/ road keech" rather well too.

[yorkie_chris]

:p yeah cos ther are working, oh no now they are not. commonly used in conjunction with heels to slow the thing down. lol

Try turn your pockets inside out, cut my stopping distance in half on mine :-P

[neio79]

Try turn your pockets inside out, cut my stopping distance in half on mine :-P
Thanks for the tip. or a deployable parachute.

[rob13]

I knew it, there would be more than 20% of the regular posters on this site having moved on from SVs. This place will be the new Visordown if it keeps on going.

What is the biggest biking message board?

[ThEGr33k]

I knew it, there would be more than 20% of the regular posters on this site having moved on from SVs. This place will be the new Visordown if it keeps on going.

What is the biggest biking message board?


Couldn't say... But the numbers are interesting :D I know there are more people on the AF1 forums (http://www.apriliaforum.com/forums/index.php) (look at bottom at posts and threads active members etc) though. :( Saying that though they have less mean (average) posts per member! :mrgreen:

[startrek.steve]

My ZX6R G1 gets 53 mpg. That's better than 45 from my SV so why use the SV? :smt102

Well my curvy does 62pg thats why!

[startrek.steve]

so what your saying is......you ride like a big girl in the wet, and you want some confidence inspiring rubber;)

YOU ride like a girl!

[G]

I knew it, there would be more than 20% of the regular posters on this site having moved on from SVs. This place will be the new Visordown if it keeps on going.

What is the biggest biking message board?

This forum could not be further from visordown

[joshmac]

This forum could not be further from visordown
Thank God for that!! :D

[G]

Thank God for that!! :D

Exactly the only thing they have vaguely in common appear to be a mutual joy for bikes......

[rob13]

Exactly the only thing they have vaguely in common appear to be a mutual joy for bikes......

I meant in the sense that this would be the biggest bike message board on the web, not that it would be full of guys with fast bikes, small ***** and the hardest man ever behind a keyboard.

I think Gixxer Junkies is probably bigger than the org though? Possibly GSer?

[Lou M]

We both had SV's, matching number plates as well.

Mr Lou now has a CG for getting to work, and a Transalp.

I've got the Triumph, always said I didn't want to die without owning a Triumph. I can die happy now!!

Love the forum, so am staying:smt019

[joshmac]

We both had SV's, matching number plates as well.
When you say matching I guess you mean similar and not the same, right?
That'd go down well if you were out together on a ride and you got pulled with the same plate on different bikes :lol:
Love the forum, so am staying:smt019
Good good, after all 28.47% of people (at time of posting) on here don't have SVs :D
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[jessie]

sold my 99 sv650s in 2005. Got a SV1000S now which really is a different sorta machine. Sometimes miss my nimble we 650 especially on the really twisties.

[larigos]

looking at the sprint ST 1050, but love the SV (first bike etc etc) oh choices choices may just keep it but can't ride both at the same time ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh what to do?

[zsv650]

looking at the sprint ST 1050, but love the SV (first bike etc etc) oh choices choices may just keep it but can't ride both at the same time ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh what to do?
get both:p

[ThEGr33k]

Bump. To get some more voted and see how things are.

[AndyW]

Bump. To get some more voted and see how things are.
Bump? I think to restart a thread this old you need a Van der Graaf generator, electrodes, a lightning storm, a castle on a mountain top and a friend called Igor.

[plowsie]

WTF, why link to your own thread in the current "who still has an SV" thread, then bump it :lol:

[ThEGr33k]

WTF, why link to your own thread in the current "who still has an SV" thread, then bump it :lol:


Because some people might not read the idle banter and might be interested in knowing. No other reason to be honest.

[Chewie]

Erm, i bought one 3 weeks ago.. and still have it so all is going well!