Evenin' all

Luke, get the yellow curvy and bugger the insurance... It'll come down. I've had my SV a month now, first bike (only bike!!) and, with my limited skill / experience / gonads if I can love it then you will bloody fudging love it. Get it. In fact, get it now.

Oh, and of course, yellow and curvy is such a good combination! Whaddayawaitinfor man!

OK, sorry, reign it in. Excitement over.

(do it.)

Actually, I'm a very happy man now as e-bike have quoted £460 TPFT

welcome!

SV as a first bike wise choice! Buy a curvy they are much better!

had the sv since i had 1 years no claims at 18, insurance was 400 quid i think,

Now 22,

not had any problems with screws, easy thing if your worried, buy a bag of replacments from somewhere like probolt if your worried,

Forks, Spend £70 quid on some hagon springs, drop them and some better oil,- job done,

Rear shock, - should be fine but many options availible to change if you really feel you need to,

Restriction - curveys are a bit harder than pointies, pointies are a plug and go box under the seat ( takaes aprox 5 mins to undo the seat and swap it, if you end up with a 03-06 pointy give me a shout as i have a 33bhp restrictor here and will do a deal on it,

Ring up your nearest dealer after passing your test, ask for a test ride, they should restrict it for you ( mine did for me) and take one for a blast,

Good luck

Originally Posted by sv-luke

Actually, I'm a very happy man now as e-bike have quoted £460 TPFT

That's a bit more sensible, so ignore my previous advice about sticking with the 125. As 85jas says, "get the yellow curvy and bugger the insurance".

Originally Posted by DJFridge

That's a bit more sensible, so ignore my previous advice about sticking with the 125. As 85jas says, "get the yellow curvy and bugger the insurance".

Yup, it's in progress

Originally Posted by james160987

had the sv since i had 1 years no claims at 18, insurance was 400 quid i think,

Now 22,

not had any problems with screws, easy thing if your worried, buy a bag of replacments from somewhere like probolt if your worried,

Forks, Spend £70 quid on some hagon springs, drop them and some better oil,- job done,

Rear shock, - should be fine but many options availible to change if you really feel you need to,

Restriction - curveys are a bit harder than pointies, pointies are a plug and go box under the seat ( takaes aprox 5 mins to undo the seat and swap it, if you end up with a 03-06 pointy give me a shout as i have a 33bhp restrictor here and will do a deal on it,

Ring up your nearest dealer after passing your test, ask for a test ride, they should restrict it for you ( mine did for me) and take one for a blast,

Good luck

Nah, not too worried at the moment, I'm not overly hamfisted with a socket set and don't intend to be taking it apart that often anyway.

Not sure what I'm going to end up with yet, I prefer the pointies for their FI and pointyness but probably won't get a decent example for less than 2k. I've gone digging and found out how the curvy's can be restricted too, easy peasy really compared to most work you'll do bar an oil change.

What are they like restricted? Slower, obviously, but does it make the power unusable or lumpy? I know some bike's can become complete dogs when restricted. A dealer 30 mi away's got a point for £3k, I'll try and get a test ride off them

i would expect you t o find a decnty point for £1800, I paid 3200 quid for my pointy when it was a year old, and ive had it four years, 10000 miles on it now, ( short trips) Id be surprised if i got over 2000 for it back,

Restricted, runs fine, Not as much power but plenty enough, I had the restrictor on for 2 years like a good boy, its obiously more fun with it off now but i didnt feel like the bike was slow or sluggish etc,
as mentioned your best to go for a test ride and see how you feel

I would reccomend the spring change for some hagons in the front, that is the best £70 i spent on the bike, before the front end would dive heavily when you left off the throttle or braked, now, nothing,

High 6 from Norfolk.

[andrewsmith]

BBD your on form this morning

Originally Posted by james160987

i would expect you t o find a decnty point for £1800, I paid 3200 quid for my pointy when it was a year old, and ive had it four years, 10000 miles on it now, ( short trips) Id be surprised if i got over 2000 for it back,

Restricted, runs fine, Not as much power but plenty enough, I had the restrictor on for 2 years like a good boy, its obiously more fun with it off now but i didnt feel like the bike was slow or sluggish etc,
as mentioned your best to go for a test ride and see how you feel

I would reccomend the spring change for some hagons in the front, that is the best £70 i spent on the bike, before the front end would dive heavily when you left off the throttle or braked, now, nothing,

Some people want ridiculous amounts of money for them, e.g a '99 with 40k, £2000.

I'll look into the spring change if I can find a pointy for sub 2k, if not that yellow curvy look's tempting. Rather far away though.

Originally Posted by BigBaddad

High 6 from Norfolk.