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...not sure if many of you knew we were expecting but the bent banana's little sister was delivered at 5.05pm on Friday night.

This one should be an easy one, but try and guess :p

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I know ;-)

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hehe, the yellow misfortune's a bit worried she might replace it...tbh quite rightly!

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vfr 400?

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Nah, slightly more fun.

Still fathoming how to chuck it round corners though. I miss my lovely wide renthals - they were effortless.

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sv650s? I just read it in the other thread.

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http://hdforums.com/forum/attachment...ut-pichers.jpg

come on gizzz a flash:p

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Spoilers :thumbdown::p

go on then ;) Since my phone's memory card's decided to corrupt I'll recycle some of richie's photos
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/3...721640x390.jpg
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/7849/...821541x480.jpg

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mwahahaha I knew it. I just happened to fall in Richies for sale thread, and made 4 with 2+2 :-)

But I did keep quiet...as it was you!

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Ride for Ride comparison curvy naked for pointy SVs: the new one fits me better. Are they taller or something?
I'm yet to figure out which one's can sounds nicer (as I can't hear over the new one's induction snort!...which is stupidly satisfying)
The SVs is definitely nicer looking (although I like the curvy in it's own way, but something was never quite right for me) but I can't help but feel the SV-s is too nice for me.
I'm not getting on with the handling on the SVs just yet, the naked could be dropped into corners effortlessly I didn't even know I was doing it, with the clipons the bike takes some pulling about.
The SVs has nicer rear suspension (cheers richie :thumright:) but I'm used to "forks o' iron" up front on the naked (they were a bit too stiff though) and the standard setup on the SV-s really is a bit wallowy, so I think that's my first and last job (as far as I can see*fingers crossed*) on it, although you never know I might just get used to it I know loads of people leave it standard..
The SVs seems to have a bit more boot too as I've never had the front end up on the curvy, but it was a case of cracking the throttle on the pointy (that test ride almost went very wrong!).
Hoping with more miles under my belt i'll get along with the handling on the pointy, but as is,despite that, I still prefer the pointy. Really will miss the curvy though, is an awesome bike.

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you'll most likely find pointy S takes off better. A friend of mine rode Suzy a few weeks back, used to have a nakid pointy and said she did feel sluggish in comparison to his, but thats the fuel injection AFAIK.
You'll get used to it soon enough...it works for starters ;-) Its not as if you;ve just bought a cruiser...now they do handle badly!

oh yes, an S has a turning circle of a bus, but you'll find the knack eventually.

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Oi, the curvy works fine! That bikes awesome, I only complained about it because I like a good moan. Really gonna miss it. I didn't realise how well I'd got to know it til I tried another bike. I'm dead scared I'm going to want it back once I've sold it! ****ed off I'd just fully serviced it and fitted new avon storms and new DID chain (gold,xring) and sprockets too :hackedoff:

I just hope the f.i doesn't break! I 'get' carbs :rabbit:

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Just try not to loose bits of the EFI this time :p

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EFI?

You referring to the palava with grace's "piece of crap fuel injected,plasticy sportsbike ****e.....gay fairings *mumble mumble etc.*"?
Mr hypocritical :mrgreen:

By coincidence that nut finally arrived from honda today!

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I'm not hypocritical - nothing ever went wrong with it on my bikes, because I knew to leave it alone ;)

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Nah I meant I was hypocritical for all the moaning I did about graciepants's bike then look what I went out and bought :-dd

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So how is Ollies bike doin??

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Last I heard, it was on the bench for exploratory surgery yesterday - hence the comment in one of the other threads about warranties :p

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Glad you like her...

I shed a tear last night. ( but dont tell anyone else..). as I've a picture of her above my computer that Amarko5 took going over hartside...
Got to get him to take another one noe...

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Aye, I really do. It was the high level exhaust that did it I always said I'd never buy a SV without a high level exhaust or if I did I'd swap my leovinci system over. (I'm still tempted!). But no; I just saw the bike and wanted it.
If you have any other pictures I wouldn't mind them if you have a min to pm me them :smile:

How did you find the front suspension by the way? Did you just get used to it? I've had a few wibble wobbles/dips on corners and it threw a bit of a wobbler hitting a pot hole on a corner, just wondered if it's something you get used to. Seems to take the urgency from the brakes too actually.

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NOOOO that Leo Vince is horrid and scruffy, it would be lowering the tone. Leave her alone already :-) ;-)

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I just let the front end do its own thing, as long as it was going the direction I wanted it to go...
as to your last post .., iv'e a load more photos. ;-)


I really do love your bike. seams strange that someone else owns her now.

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Nice bike Dave :cool: I could tell you would soon get a pointy
when you kept drooling over mine and deejay's.

Can't comment on the difference in handling cos the pointy
is the only one I've owned.

Of course yours must be restricted to 33bhp.............me thinks NOT!!!:D

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Lol! :smt082


Dave, the leo system won't fit.

Regarding it being slow handling, what tyres are on it? I know richie had something wierd on the back, didn't appear to slow him down much though.

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So you're selling the banana :( :( :(

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I'm sure he'd do you a good deal if you batted your eyelashes at him :p

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Are you selling the banana?

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i think he'd want more than me batting my eyelashes at him!!

he better not be selling the banana!

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Guess that just depends on how good a deal you want to get :cool:

I must admit, it would be odd to have Dave on a reliable bike - maybe it'll help his timekeeping ;)

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dont worry, he's told me K3s have a design fault where the engine likes to blow up or something, so its not 100% reliable.

and its not the bike that makes dave late!! having tried to pry him out of bed in order to get to maccyDs to meet you before the GM at 930, and spending a weekend in a wigwam with him - that boy has NO sense of urgency whatsoever (but dont ell him that cos he shouts are you :smt085)

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Its also a 6 year old bike - any blowing up it might be inclined to do would probably have been done a long time ago, I suspect. I'm told it usually happens in the first fortnight or so :smt090

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Dave, as long as you don't let Orose on it you'll be fine with the bike. Orose seems to have some sort of special power to disable bikes. :lol:

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he did manage to fix mine though \\:D/

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Doesn't seem to work on SVs - I did nigh on 30k on mine before trading it in :p

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'Jesus Christ' was my catch phrase of today, shame I didn't catch it on camera (no batteries) but pulled a cracking involuntary wheelie. I'm starting to like ECU restrictors, I don't get the annoying huge dip of power at 6k. Handles okay but I really do want to sort the front suspension, might sharpen up the braking amongst other things.

Yes the banana is for sale :( Which is a shame because I'd just got it spot on.

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Yeah I'm happy with the art can that's on to be honest I'll let the lucky buyer of the nana enjoy the leo. Wish I could afford to track bike it.....
It's got a pirrelli something by 70 by something up front and a 180 michelin rear. I'm undecided on whether or not I like the set up, might try some good old storms next and see what I make of them in comparison.

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Nice looking bike that ;)

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Art can you say Dave. I got one of them on Suzy. They're a rarity these days so look after it.


oh and the bike as well;-)