New to SVs.

Originally Posted by GavinD

hey twanky - the rear shocks are often not transplants - you can buy them for £450 from ohlins to fit the SV specifically - my minitwin had that shock.

Thanks for the info Gavin. Will have to have a look at some other mods that people have done

looks cool can i have your suspension please

There are cheaper mods out there for the rear shock. Depending on your build, you can fit ZX6, ZX10, GSXR or Busa Shocks to Curvys. Some do require adaption to the battery box. I had a look at Flymo's Elka rear shock on his pointy and that did indeed look very bling Bordering chavvy I'd say

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Twanky

Ok, so i'm back on the road after a 3 year hiatus, and i got myself a 2000 SV650.It's the 1st V twin and also the 1st Suzuki i've had ,so i have a couple of dumb questions if thats ok.

One of the reasons i bought this particular bike, was because it had Ohlins USD forks and Ohlins rear shock.Is this just a straight transplant from the GSXR 750/1000 ? Is there anything else that can be transplanted ?

2nd.....and here's the dumb one... what's a curvy ??? Is it the early bike before the 2003 upgrade

Anyway only done 100 miles on it so far, and i'm well pleased.
Look forward to contributing to what looks like a great forum

I'll do any bits of servicing it needs if I can have a go

It depends on what ohlins they are. they make ohlins kit for the GSXR but it depends entirely what they've used.

Ohlins shock is quite possibly SV specific, or a GSXR one would fit too.

Closer inspection, they look more like GSXR1000K1-K3 forks with an ohlins sticker on them.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Closer inspection, they look more like GSXR1000K1-K3 forks with an ohlins sticker on them.

Bugger Still better than the stock SV's i suppose

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

I'll do any bits of servicing it needs if I can have a go

Already have someone who does my bikes,but thanks for offering

That is one nice curvy.
Just needs a bit of a clean!

Yeah i'll get around to it asap

[yorkie_chris]

A great deal better, the shock especially, so long as it is set up for your weight.

The GSXR1000 ones are good forks, and who knows what the ohlins sticker means. It could be anything from bugger all, to full aftermarket internals.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

A great deal better, the shock especially, so long as it is set up for your weight.

The GSXR1000 ones are good forks, and who knows what the ohlins sticker means. It could be anything from bugger all, to full aftermarket internals.

Thought i would check the fork and shock settings as i was going out for my 1st blast on the bike today. Would you believe that the Compression, Rebound and Preload were at their softest settings Christ i thought it was a bit spongy on the way home from the dealers, but i thought it was just me after a couple years off the bikes.
Anyway, i adjusted them to 1/2 way plus 2 clicks towards hard. Massive improvement off course I'm probably 15st so may need to harden it a touch more.
I will post some pics of the bike soon, but it seems that it has the GSXR 750/1000? (How can you tell?),forks, yokes ? standard SV wheel and brakes(with a nice adapter plate). What i don't understand is why the guy didn't just use the GSXR wheel and brakes? Is there a problem with this.. I really need to trawl through this forum to find all this out

[yorkie_chris]

GSXR discs and wheels are expensive, probably worked out cheaper to get the plates made.

Look at caliper mounts, that tells you it is K1-K3 GSXR or any SV1000, forks are USD so must be 750 or 1000. Forks are gold, and they only came on the 1000 (ohhh god).

They could be ohlins, but all the ohlins road and track forks I've seen have had bolt on caliper mounts and not black bottoms and caliper mounts like these. Of course I could be wrong there I know little of ohlins.

What I wonder is why go to the effort of fitting these, then leave the stock calipers on. ridiculously easy improvement for you there, just flog the SV bits and swap for the front wheel, discs and calipers off a K1-K3 600/750/1000.

Also, why put pukka performance stuff on like the forks, and shock, and then fit a totally stupid exhaust system which adds no power just more weight! I'd get rid of that right sharp and put a proper system on it (I think dave20046 was selling a leo vince system not long ago)

Edit: on inspection the yokes look like the K1-K3 ones. Does the steering lock work?

Just been looking on Ebay and hell, the GSXR wheels are dear !!!
Forks dont have radial caliper mounts. Could have Ohlin internals, or just a couple of stickers .

I will be looking to put new wheel and calipers on.

I quite like the exhaust set up, and sound and at my age and weight a couple of kilos isnt going to make a lot of difference.But on saying that, i have not actually heard of the makers. Fast by Fabritech

No the steering lock dosen't work

thanks for all the info btw

[yorkie_chris]

If you want steering lock to work you can fit some SRAD750 yokes. There's a chance the GSXR discs might fit SV wheel, not sure of bolt BCD though.

Never heard of those, they could just be the cans. It's the pipework that matters.