Restricting a Pointy? Again.

[mjf65]

My mates son has just passed his test :D and is looking at SV's. The last one we had was a silver 2001 curvy with the washers fitted (or not!) which my son should never have sold (the best first bike in the world), bought a ZX636 crashed it etc, etc.....

Anyway, for the newer FI models, what is the restriction method? And is it worth buying a full power and then getting it restricted or finding one already done?

Thanks in advance for your help

[shonadoll]

The newer ones are a plug in restrictor, two minute job. They often come up for sale on the forum for about £40.

[mjf65]

Thanks, I see there are a few on FleaBay at the moment.

[Jayneflakes]

As above, buy a new restricted ECU. I rode a washer and throttle stop restricted K9 recently and frankly it was horrid. My K3 was ECU restricted and that rode lovely, with full throttle action and a nice power delivery. Don't try to fit an after market kit, just get the ECU, you will appreciate the bike more.

[mjf65]

Thanks Jayne.
It won't be me riding it, I've got my silky smooth 1050 Speed Triple :-).

I do remember riding the carb version with the blanking plates fitted and that was fine, it just lacked the top end power compared to the full fat version. Stll a nice bike to ride though even with just 33bhp, I like SV's.