Looking to get a SV650 K3/K4

[jamesterror]

After passing my test last Monday, I've decided I want to get a SV650 K3/K4.

My budget for a bike is £1800, I spoke to 2 mates who have/had an SV they said for that age that should be a fair budget to have, my main reason for that about is because of insurance and me being 17 its going to be about £550 for TPFT which is a ball breaker.

(Originally I was going to wait till I was 18 but the difference is approx £22)

I've looked on fleabay, not my preferred method to buy though, as well as autotrader locally and I can't seem to find many of this model, unless I'm obvious and very blind.

As its my first bike, wondering if anybody could give me advice in relation to buying? The riding questions will come after I've been out for the first time and left brown stains.

Cheers

[DanSV]

Congrats on the pass, sounds a fair budget might see a you a slightly higher milage bike tho.

I'd shop around for insurance i paid less then that when i was 17 for my SV brand new.

Im now 22 left the biking world for 2 years (how foolish was i) and have lost all my NCB because i didnt run a policy so im starting again and got it this time for £325 again brand new and even un garaged. IIRC that was using confused.com who found Hastings to be the cheapest for me.

HTH

DAN

[paiste]

Here you go :p
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=127769

[rowdy]

Only advice I can give you is to try get k4 onwards really as the k3 has a few parts that are unique to that year so parts are harder to find second hand if need be, the only real advantage of the k3 being that the mirror arms are slightly longer (don't know why Suzuki changed this on later models).
Edit; mirrors only apply to 's' model

[Dave20046]

Congrats on the pass, sounds a fair budget might see a you a slightly higher milage bike tho.

I'd shop around for insurance i paid less then that when i was 17 for my SV brand new.

Im now 22 left the biking world for 2 years (how foolish was i) and have lost all my NCB because i didnt run a policy so im starting again and got it this time for £325 again brand new and even un garaged. IIRC that was using confused.com who found Hastings to be the cheapest for me.

HTH

DAN
hastings only insure 21+'s

[jamesterror]

Here you go :p
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=127769

Cheers but its an S, I prefer the naked.... :) But i'll give you a shout once I'm on the road as your only a stone throw away!

And yeh hasting is 21+ parents are with them.

A friend has a K4 the mirrors are pretty awful, well its either K3 or K4, whatever comes up.

I've seen a K3 13,000 for £1,600 all standard which is tempting, have emailed the bloke about it regarding services / tyres.

[Dave20046]

sounds cheap!

[jamesterror]

sounds cheap!

Just got a response off him too, problem is I can't get collect as not insured however there must be someway of getting insured for a weekend or 7 days.

Hes got somebody viewing on Friday, fingers crossed they don't take a greater interest (sorry if its someone off here :) )

[Dave20046]

google it, think it's ebike or someone that does it. best bet's getting a van though.

[jamesterror]

google it, think it's ebike or someone that does it. best bet's getting a van though.

Yeh that'd be the other option, he said he'd deliver if he had to but has already had interested, however i'll keep looking.

[pencil shavings]

Only advice I can give you is to try get k4 onwards really as the k3 has a few parts that are unique to that year so parts are harder to find second hand if need be, the only real advantage of the k3 being that the mirror arms are slightly longer (don't know why Suzuki changed this on later models).
Edit; mirrors only apply to 's' model

K3s are also taller than the K4+ models

and they have been reported to rust slower than the newer SV

[Dave20046]

K3s are also taller than the K4+ models

and they have been reported to rust slower than the newer SV
I've heard the engines are made worse though.:smt017

[pencil shavings]

I've heard the engines are made worse though.:smt017

really? havent heard that one

[rowdy]

I've heard the engines are made worse though.:smt017
Crank issues apparently (having had one crank snap I can believe that:cry:).
Still all the more reason to save up for a billet crank and bore my spare engine to 750.

[pencil shavings]

really? I was under the impression that the SV motor was just wonderfully understressed and if you looked after it it would pretend its a duracell bunny and just keep on going?

[pencil shavings]

Im not implying that you didnt maintain your bike correctly though!! :)

[rowdy]

I think YC once said there was an issue with the crankshaft oil ways on the early pointys, my crankshaft snapped of like a carrot so this could be the case.
Nothing wrong with the rest of the engine though the cylinder bores still look like new after about 20,000 miles.
Was riding it pretty hard for a few months before it decided to snap though so that wouldn't of helped matters.