LEXINGTONONE

I know it,s a little off topic (but isn,t everyone else anyway!) but as for the why try and lighten the sv, although it,s not the heaviest (especially in feel) bike in the world, lightening any bike is about the best thing you can do to it, it helps in every department, on that subject one thing (and this is nearly back on topic!) that I have given some thought to is that huge rear disc and caliper, why so enormous ! anyone ever fitted a smaller disc and caliper (something off a moped or the like would do as we dont use the back much do we ?) also I am surprised to hear the comment that gixer forks are lighter than the sv ones, I have been told by more than one reasonably well informed expert (?) that the gixer ones are quite a bit heavier as are most usd forks in comparison with rwu,s,