Is your SV still fun?
 

ive had my bike for 4 years now...done 45k and its still going strong.
cos of the weather i tend to not rag it all that offen and get used to it and start to think nothing of the performance.

then that one good day comes around..so i go to my fave back roads and give its legs a stretch...wow!
i tend to forget whats it real capabilities till she roars like a duc and the front jumps up on the slightest sniff of a hill or bump!
its great!

im not getting rid of it any time soon!

http://upload3.postimage.org/118883/R0013309.jpg

and this is after just teasting the new 06 blade, that wasnt anywhere near as fun!
v twins in the blood!

how bout you guys? still love your sv?

I do, but I'm definately going straight four next summer if finances permit! After riding an R6 a lot over the weekend, I'm addicted. Plus, my best mate just bought a brand new (well, k4 on an 06 plate) SV1000S fulyl faired and crash bungs for £5.2k, I can't copy him cos thats what I wanted next :( We already both have 1.1 peugeot 106s lol, look like a right pair of idiots then.

ive always had il4's and usually keep them for about a year or so until i get fed up and then i change them, ive had my sv now for nearly 2 years and IF i do think of selling it it will be for another "V" twin but as it stands for the moment its staying.

Re: YOUR SV STILL FUN??????
 

Dunno? Ask Grinch!

Yes! i still luv my SV! but i am going to sell it soon and get a XJR1300! and probally a supermoto as well (for a winter hack) :twisted:

I'm not sure I'll ever get rid of mine, I paid £2.5K for it last year but spent well over a grand on bits for it already, with a current part ex value of around £1800.

Can't afford anything new this year or maybe even next year, so with a further two years depreciation on it, I'll be lucky to get more then a grand for it, hardly worth chopping it in.

So that leaves me with the b-plan, the cafe racer project. The suspension is now Hagon all round, with EBC pads and a "Fuel" exhaust. Now with the addition of some SVS clip ons, a set of Harris rear sets (non adjustable but certainly of the bling), a sigma slipper clutch, goodridge lines, seat cowl, K&N filter and dynojet kit ( and maybe even the Poly26 old school fairing around the single headlamp ), thats about £1-1.2K of extras over the next couple of years, for a bike that will roughly make 50 lb/ft of torque and at most 72bhp. A total outlay of about £4K, a value that will NEVER be recouped

so I sincerely doubt I'll ever flog Daisy, just probably run it "as well as" to the "Prince of Darkness" GSX-R 750 I've always wanted

I was a little worried at first that buying an SV after owning a Ninja would be a real big step backwards in the smile factor. But my sliders say otherwise. Get out on a good day and much fun can be had on the SV even if the front end is a little wobbly when pushed hard. And the noise is sooo cool, everyone looks! :D

I still love my SV, it might not be the fastest in a straight line but I couldn't honestly care less. I love the way a smaller, less refined bike involves the rider, like I was saying in another thread. I wouldn't say no to a second bike, mind, but at the moment I've only got space for one and there's no bike I'd prefer. And it's not for want of looking! I must have testridden 20 different bikes in teh last year, there wasn't one that I preferred.

my sv still fun??

no.
(it blew up)

i do have to ay though, people made it out to be a beast with loads of power before passing my test. the only ascertainable diferences from the cb500 i rode and my sv are the handling is better, the engine breaking is more. other then that, not much. its a bit of a pussycat really.

Hell Yes :twisted: