Re: How does your restricted 33bhp pointy SV650 feel?
 

This is a blast from the past.
but heres my 2p on it after about 6000miles on a 33bhp curvy;

I don't like the 33bhp law, for the purely selfish reason that more power is fun and the fact that I can whack the throttle wide open on many bends with no fear of anything untoward happening, this bit of the learning curve is something I'll have to do when the restriction ends. I also don't like the fact that it restricts what I can modify, as I like tinkering.
Overall I think its done me good as its good practice to overtake with less power, means you have to plan better, the same with cornering.
However I do think that 2 years is excessive, I'm doing about 250 miles at the moment and have ridden much faster tackle than the SV without ending up in a hedge. 6 months or a year on 33bhp would be more appropriate IMO
I would like the extra power, even if there is more risk of an off, but am not prepared to accept the legal risk. Fairly simple logic.

Chris

Re: How does your restricted 33bhp pointy SV650 feel?
 

Okay right havent read onwards from the post about where you say how they are restricting it. From reading a post about Girths thou he has just bought been restricted, that has some sort of throttle stop to restrict the bike. AFAIK the pointy is a ECU chip? On the Curvey it's washers somewhere in the carbs.

Re: How does your restricted 33bhp pointy SV650 feel?
 

One of 2 options:

Suzuki kit: Carb slides with holes in, dumps the vaccuum above a certain amount, stopping the slides from raising so far

FI kit: Washers on the inlet rubbers just after the carbs. £70 for 7p worth of washer.

Re: How does your restricted 33bhp pointy SV650 feel?
 

Thats correct! And you're gonna see it soon enough!

Get about a 5th of the throttle. My Pointy 650 was ecu restricted, but i think the throttle restricter is a better way of doing it, espesically for a new rider, due to the fact the power is the same on a restricted and full power until the throttle stop comes into action.

Re: How does your restricted 33bhp pointy SV650 feel?
 

Also doesn't mess up the jetting.

I want to build some sort of device, basically a programmable rev limiter, dyno the bike and set it to kill the ignition when it hits it.
No performance change up to the limit and can be re-set to account for getting the bike jetted right with a freeer flowing filter etc.
Will see what my electronics guru mate has to say about it...

Re: How does your restricted 33bhp pointy SV650 feel?
 

The ECU restriction on the Pointy 650 doesn't mess up the bike at all - it runs absolutely fine .


You've... restricted... a. 1000? WHY!!!!!?????

Re: How does your restricted 33bhp pointy SV650 feel?
 

Stu have you seen the bike????