Is your SV still fun?

Tom....Give your mouse a tap,there seems to be an echo! :P

Originally Posted by Peter Henry

Tom....Give your mouse a tap,there seems to be an echo! :P

it's not unusual
sorry

I've had my SV for over 5 1/2 years now.

I think if i was going to get bored of it, it should have happened long ago.

The SV is a great wee bike, arguably the best. Just like I imagine a Fireblade is a great big bike. Just because it's of a smaller capacity doesn't make it inferior. In fact I can get more of a buzz riding it near it's limit, then looking for improvements, than getting something perfect out of the crate and using only 75% of it's prowess.

I understand folk who use it as a step towards big stuff, but I personally don't need much more.



It's just occured to me - I can't think of anyone here, or elsewhere, who hated the SV and got rid. Does such a person exist?

ive always looked at it this way!
BETTER TO THRASH A SMALL CAPABLE BIKE TO THE LIMITS AND GET EVERYTHING POSSIBLE OUT OF IT!
RATHER THAN GET A BIG LITRE BIKE AND NEVER USE THE ENTIRE POTENTIAL OF THE BIKE!

i love my sv and cant see why i would ever change it! id deff buy another one!

Mine lost the fun in the end - after only 2k miles and 6 months. It is a nice little pussy cat cos you can give it full throttle without anything scary happening so you get to squeeze the most of it.

The problem is though on dual carriageways and the like you can squeeze the most out of it and still be bored.

I found it very scary on lanes though. Any mid sized bike is scarily quick in a confined space but the iffy suspension makes it worse on the SV when it comes to twists and turns!

I wouldn't want any more as a real world bike though. It was fast enough and comfortable enough and being able to fully exploit it without wetting yourself was a good thing!

Paulthewitt, now you have experienced an SV what do you think of my original advice in that thread when you were asking what to get?

Only had my SV since Christmas, still loving it. I do tend to get bored quickly, but have no intentions of chopping in the SV for a while as it does all I want from it

Even if/when I do move on, I’ll always have a soft spot for the SV now I think, but then I have developed a soft spot for most of the bikes I have ever owned

I have ridden V-twins before, but this is the first I have owned (I must have owned in excess of 30 bikes over the years!) so has that novelty factor that might keep me interested for a bit longer too I was not convinced at first, but now I have sorted a few nigglies and had more time on it, I think it is a cracking bike now

Originally Posted by Toypop

The problem is though on dual carriageways and the like you can squeeze the most out of it and still be bored.

I found it very scary on lanes though. Any mid sized bike is scarily quick in a confined space but the iffy suspension makes it worse on the SV when it comes to twists and turns!

130mph and bored?

i find the sv handles well, my old cbr only seemed to handle better at very high speeds. as for lanes my k3 is great!!

Originally Posted by kwak zzr

130mph and bored?

i find the sv handles well, my old cbr only seemed to handle better at very high speeds. as for lanes my k3 is great!!

just what i thought!
in the twisties the sv is in its element!
my friends have cbr 600 rr's and on the back roads is where it will show its true colours! they find it hard to keep up! its great!

i dont need a bike that does more that the sv!
cos you cant use it on real roads!
an sv will out do anything else on a proper technical road!

socommk23, your friends are not using their bikes to their potential at all. I would not count myself as slow, on the twisties, I got owned by a mate on a 99 R6, by no means the sharpest 600. I wasn't far behind, and he is a better rider with more experiance, but 2 people with similar skill, one on an sv and one on a double R and the cibber will win.

my k3 has only done 4k miles so the shocks are still quite stiff, i think it handles great! my zzr was a monster in a straight line but in the twistys it was like a london bus!!