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09-11-18, 08:35 AM | #11 |
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Re: SV650sy - the past eight years.
Ha ha! Probably the end of next year at this rate.
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Re: SV650sy - the past eight years.
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09-11-18, 11:52 AM | #13 |
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Re: SV650sy - the past eight years.
Glad you are enjoying the bike Gary, and good to hear some people on here still own and more importantly ride their SV's!
Mine makes me smile too, especially now it has new tyres, chain and brakes that work! I do wonder about other bikes - having never owned anything other than a YBR125 before my SV. However when it does die, hopefully from some non catastrophic reason. I think I might be getting another one. Mainly because I'm always skint and this one has treated me well. Plus 11,000 miles a year and I can't justify a brand new bike, or an expensive one the mileage would devalue it far too quickly. Not unless I could afford two bikes. And then one would be an SV anyway! Obviously not a Curvy though - their ugly. |
09-11-18, 12:19 PM | #14 |
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Re: SV650sy - the past eight years.
Ha!! Heresy! Burn all the heretics. Or make them ride a 1970s, 250cc CZ stinkwheel!
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09-11-18, 12:43 PM | #15 |
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Re: SV650sy - the past eight years.
Not knowing what a 1970s, 250cc CZ stinkwheel was I had to google it.
Looks better than a curvy. Still not sure why stink wheel though? Last edited by shiftin_gear98; 09-11-18 at 12:44 PM. |
09-11-18, 01:09 PM | #16 |
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Re: SV650sy - the past eight years.
CZ's scramblers and enduro machines were very competitive, but I think Gary meant CZ's road bikes:
'Stinkwheel' comes from the fact that 2-stroke engine burn oil because of their pre-mix or oil injection systems. I happen to like the smell a lot |
09-11-18, 02:26 PM | #17 |
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Re: SV650sy - the past eight years.
Yep, still looks better than a Curvy.
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09-11-18, 03:28 PM | #18 |
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09-11-18, 03:57 PM | #19 |
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Re: SV650sy - the past eight years.
Ha! Stylistic philistines the pair of you. |
09-11-18, 07:45 PM | #20 |
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Re: SV650sy - the past eight years.
I've owned mine from new, exactly the same as yours in the fab candy blue. 18 years of happy and largely trouble free ownership.
I've done 40k miles on mine, and agree with you about them being brilliant bikes. Track days, touring, commuting, Sunday fun, it does it all pretty well. I have other bikes, most of them far "better" than the little SV, but I know which one of them will never get sold! Last edited by andy650; 09-11-18 at 07:48 PM. |
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