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Do you own a SV?
Are you tired of people telling you that it's a girl's bike?
Complete the poll for definitive proof that you don't in fact own the most girly bike on the planet!!
Ceri JC
17-09-07, 07:58 AM
No one has ever refered to my bike as a "girl's bike" in real life when I've been in earshot, apart from one of my friends who jokingly calls everything other than an R1 a "girl's bike". As it happens, I've actually had it someone describe it as "a proper man's bike, not like these poofs with their barn door fairings" once.
If someone called it a girl's bike it wouldn't worry me. If they are faster than me, so what, I'm on a girl's bike. If I am faster than them, oh dear, they got whupped by a girl's bike. :)
wheres the i dont own a girls bike option?
on a side note, after the SV was refered to as a sports bike on the TV a few local peeps took the wee-wee a bit, saying it was NOT a sports bike it was a girls bike.
so............. how come it can keep up with your 1200 bandit
:winner:
Luckypants
17-09-07, 08:04 AM
No longer have my SV :( Can I vote?
wheres the i dont own a girls bike option?
People who don't own a SV are excluded from this poll, go make your own...
My old SK3 is a girls bike. Her name is Lynn.
Alpinestarhero
17-09-07, 08:08 AM
My bike is supposedly a girls bike. Which makes me, supposedly, a man very much in touch with his feminine side. Some truth in that - I get a bit shreiky around bugs.
But I don't think my bike is a "girlie" bike, which I guess means its not a very "tough" bike. Its bloody tough. Its bloody hard to ride fast, to keep up with supersports 600's and gsxr750's. Its got a deep growling motor, with the most awesome overrun sound in the world, even on my road legal can. Sometimes, I wonder what a group of SV's with loud cans would be like. And I'm often drawn to a song where the opening line is "Down the plains come hell riders", which is exactly how I picture a group of SV's with loud cans coming full chat toward me.
So is it a girly bike? No. Them silly little tiny piaggio zip scooters are girlie bikes.
The SV is a wolf in sheeps clothing.
It does, after all, have some DNA of the TL1000s.....
Matt
i'd love to see a girl at full tilt on my naked SV her head would come off, never heard it called a girls bike but the seat height is probs why girls and short ass's can ride em, someone should tell Suzuki and they can do a pink one
Sticks and Stones I think.
If you get insulted by Girls Bike, just think there are many girls on here that ride equal to or better than most men.
I for one would rather attempt to ride my SV well in the knowledge it's going to forgive my many mistakes, than get a "macho" machine and try to maintain that image while extrqacting saind machine out of a hedge.
someone should tell Suzuki and they can do a pink one
i want one
i want one
We know you do.
kwak zzr
17-09-07, 08:19 AM
i've owned 2 girls bikes:) and i'm looking for another:)
Alpinestarhero
17-09-07, 08:32 AM
Sticks and Stones I think.
If you get insulted by Girls Bike, just think there are many girls on here that ride equal to or better than most men.
I for one would rather attempt to ride my SV well in the knowledge it's going to forgive my many mistakes, than get a "macho" machine and try to maintain that image while extrqacting saind machine out of a hedge.
Quite a matcho thing, to be able to pull a bike from a hedge...
I came to the conclusion that an SV with some suspension upgrades and minor upgrades to the brakes makes the perfect road bike. The engine is more than fast enough...I mean, who needs to go faster than 135 mph on a public road anyway?
Matt
Quite a matcho thing, to be able to pull a bike from a hedge...
I came to the conclusion that an SV with some suspension upgrades and minor upgrades to the brakes makes the perfect road bike. The engine is more than fast enough...I mean, who needs to go faster than 135 mph on a public road anyway?
Matt
135? are you gonna be disappointed when they deristrict your bike
kwak zzr
17-09-07, 08:44 AM
Quite a matcho thing, to be able to pull a bike from a hedge...
I came to the conclusion that an SV with some suspension upgrades and minor upgrades to the brakes makes the perfect road bike. The engine is more than fast enough...I mean, who needs to go faster than 135 mph on a public road anyway?
Matt
i could'nt get mine out the hedge, not with one arm anyhow:)
fizzwheel
17-09-07, 08:45 AM
I'm not Keithd, but I used his vote option. I dont care, I never will and I never have, people who call the SV a girls bike have small willys. So ner !
I'm not Keithd, but I used his vote option.
Kieth is Kieth and he used his own option, FACT.
I'm not Keithd, but I used his vote option. I dont care, I never will and I never have, people who call the SV a girls bike have small willys. So ner !
Yay!!! :smt041
(They do...)
I'm not Keithd, but I used his vote option. I dont care, I never will and I never have, people who call the SV a girls bike have small willys. So ner !
Yay!!! :smt041
(They do...)
There goes that whole "feet" myth...
21QUEST
17-09-07, 09:22 AM
Here we go with the usual denials :p.....didn't vote as no applicable option :mrgreen:
I'm not Keithd, but I used his vote option. I dont care, I never will and I never have, people who call the SV a girls bike have small willys. So ner !
Yay!!! :smt041
(They do...)
:shock: [-X :smt020 hehe
Ben
Doh, presse d the wrong button, clicked i am a girl and own a pointy!!
I dont think they are Girls bieks at all.
They are great bikes, just because they happen not to have full fairings as standard and cant do 160+ does not make them a girls bike.
There are plenty of people who can ride them al ot better and get more out of them than a lot of people with R1, XZ10's etc. You just have to see the mad squirrel hunter to know that. .
Most peole will take the P but cant really ride their fast bike properly. I would much rather spend my time for a few years learning to corner and ride properly on a forgiving bike that can still kick the ar*e out of all car on our roads.
Then when i am ready and comrertable get a litre bike that i will be able to at least get the best out of cos i have learnt my roadcraft a bit first.
I bet most people who take the P are back to biking older blokes who know no better and like sheep have got a litre sports bike cos theieri mate reccomended it and think anything less is not worth concidering.
I am happy wit hthe SV, love its Looks( well the pointy LOL ) , its sound, and the way it rides.
Like Alpinestar says, with a few tweeks is the perfect road bike.
Filipe M.
17-09-07, 10:02 AM
Doh, presse d the wrong button, clicked i am a girl and own a pointy!!
Freudian slip perhaps? ;)
Doh, presse d the wrong button, clicked i am a girl and own a pointy!!
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sounds about right to me?
i love my sv, but whatever gender it happens to be, i feel the lack of power in its engine. going from an aprilia falco and an r6 to the sv, i feel like i have been going backwards in terms of power.
i will be buying something stupidly quick and powerful next time, and it pobably won't be a girls bike either.
oh, and i'm a girl!
I'm the opposite going from an R6 back to my SV it feels like more power the R6 feels like you have to be thrashing the sh!t out of it to get the same torque
SoulKiss
17-09-07, 01:30 PM
i love my sv, but whatever gender it happens to be, i feel the lack of power in its engine. going from an aprilia falco and an r6 to the sv, i feel like i have been going backwards in terms of power.
i will be buying something stupidly quick and powerful next time, and it pobably won't be a girls bike either.
oh, and i'm a girl!
And when people tell me I ride like a girl I point at you and say - no I dont - shes quick and a bit of a nutter :P
Sometimes I wish I did ride like some of the girls in the .org.
No one has been able to catch me to tell me I've got a Girl's Bike ;)
Seriously though, I've only had the Curvy about 2 months but I'm already able to find it's limits and that's with uprated forks. I can come out of a turn, over at 45 degrees and have the throttle on the stop. I can lock the front wheel coming into turns. I can basically take it as far as it's able to go and then a tiny bit more.
I can ride it 101% and *that's* why I own an SV650.
I'd *never* be able to ride an R1, Fireblade, ZX10 etc to it's limit on the road so what's the point of having one?
I've had bigger bikes before but always seem to drift back to the 600 and even 400's as you can use them to their max.
It's also probably why I'm still alive :)
Carl
colinsv25
17-09-07, 01:58 PM
i love my sv, but y does the poll ave i own a wussy pointy[-X,a pointy is now the fashion,the currvy's r outdated:smt045
That's the difference between Fashion and Style ;)
Filipe M.
17-09-07, 02:10 PM
That's the difference between Fasion and Style ;)
=D> =D> =D>
edit: oi TSM, the clapping smiley is broken!
gemma1675
17-09-07, 02:20 PM
I had a GPZ500 before the SV. When I bought it (from a big heterosexual bloke) it had adonised pink bits all over it. WTF? :confused:
My SV is positively butch compared to that.
(although my SV obviously is a girls bike given my gender) :cool:
scarlett
17-09-07, 05:26 PM
'm a girly and got a pointy K3...... so theoretically....its a girls bike, cos it belongs to a girl and is ridden by a girl .....but I dont seriously think of it as a girls bike.
I think the 'girls bike' label is more applicable to curvys and purely because curvys are fairly low, therefore are often recommended for shorter riders, the majority of which are girls.
The pointies are taller, so that theory doesnt apply.:rolleyes:
CoolGirl
17-09-07, 05:39 PM
I'm a girl and I had it both ways, if you see what I mean....
slark01
17-09-07, 05:54 PM
Hmm, let me think...I don't have a job because I look after a baby and do the housework. I own a silver/blue pointy named Anna-mai ( which is actually written on it ), and every week I go to a mothers meeting.
Yet i'm a bloke named steve, with meat and 2 veg in the right places.
Who gives a sh*t if someone thinks that i've got a girls bike or not, not me that's for sure. Like to see them do what I do every day....nappies, yuck :)
thebluelion
17-09-07, 05:58 PM
I used the Keith option cause i dont really give a F--k what people think,oh and by the way a small fact one of N.Irelands road racing legends rides one and thinks its the business.
Does it matter if 'some' think it's a girls bike? It shouldn't. Does it matter if you can ride it to its limit? It shouldn't. Does it matter what other people ride? It shouldn't.
The important thing is that you are happy with your bike and enjoy riding it. Have fun and enjoy the experience of a cracking middlweight with a wonderful engine.
plowsie
17-09-07, 11:38 PM
My new one is too good for the millenium edition blade owner who took the **** outta my old one calling it a girls bike!
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