Fair point.
I would say its also to do with the same thing that all these nerdy hacker types download a linux distrib, tinker the crap out of it, and make it theirs.
The SV650 gives you a nice cheap bike out of the traps, and then lures you cleverly into modding just a couple of bits, bits that obviously
need modding, and before you know where you are, your name is northwind, you know every piece of your bike, and love the poor thing to bits.
Maybe
