[SV650rules]

Welcome to the forum, nothing wrong with the Gladius as a riding tool, but Suzuki took a lot of flack about the 'girlie' styling, yours looks good in black and white.


https://pyramid-plastics.co.uk/acces...rtNumber=05020

Fitted one to my 2016 AL7 - black matched the existing mudguard, but yours is white. That radiator is exposed to getting a stone into it, a radiator guard would not go amiss, fenda extenda will help with stones getting to radiator and also help keep water off the front plugs (although on Gladius and later they have 2 plugs per cylinder so water in one 'plugole' not as serious as earlier models, which could badly misfire, normally cured by using heaps of silicone grease). To fit extender you only have to drill 4 quite small holes, I did take the front mudguard off to do mine and its not difficult. main problem was getting the brake pipe anchor point out of its hole.



http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=227521

You are never gonna get a legal beam off an HID bulb in a reflector designed for a filament bulb, the nearest I found is the Phillips chipped LED one in this thread -


As suggested by other posters, just get on the thing and enjoy riding it - good advice from Bibio will save you money, not too much wrong with standard Suzuki setup riding at legal speeds, if and when you reach the limit of standard setup let us know. You are about the same weight as me and I find handling absolutely fine - my 'chicken strip' is pretty narrow, but still there.

I think ABS is more use to a road rider than uprated shocks, it has cut in a couple of times on mine on slippery surfaces like banding and probably saved my sorry 4SS from an 'off'.