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Originally Posted by BigApe
The suspension on the SV is quite adequate for a newbie rider. It's even quite adequate for someone that does not want to ride particularly fast. However, for someone such as yourself that has ridden some rather better quality machinery and have substantial miles under the belt. The your going to find the one major weakness of the SV. The suspension. For a budget bike you get budget bouncy bits.
I changed the fork springs and oil for the front and put a GSXR shock in the rear. The resulting change to the handling of the bike is quite remarkable. No more pogo suspension. No more high speed weave and far less dive on heavy braking.
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Thanks Simon, This is what I need to hear. I needed to know that mine wasn't a completely shagged out shed, and that they are all "this" bad when you really start to push on a bit.
I'll still throw some wonga at ithe suspension cos I love the engine, brakes aint that bad either, I've had worse on more expensove bikes <looks at Triumph>.