New SV Owner, with fingers crossed!

[Shellywoozle]

Welcome and congratulations on passing your test.

The grin on your face must be massive from having a new cat on your license and having Blueto's pointy, which looks lovely.

Enjoy the summer.

Oh and Blue where are my tunes you promised me?

Congrats dude and welcome to the smiling for no apparent reason club! Oh and celebrate by buying that beautiful bike of yours some crash bungs. You wont regret it

Sean, congratulations!! That is seriously good news!!!

Thoughts on the SV???

Well its been one helluva day! Just settling down now!

Got home this afternoon and made sure my insurance was all sorted, I went with Express Insurance, £305, fully comp, breakdown, protected excess & pillion cover, which was not bad I thought. Then had to phone Hein Gericke as the Puma 800 boots I ordered were no good as they sent me a left size 8 and a right size 9! I shall be taking them back to the Hein Gericke store in Southampton tomorrow for a full refund. So I popped along to Infinity and checked theirs out again, and settled for a pair of Sidi Vertigos, which so far, Im really pleased with.


Then it was back home and on with the RST Rift leathers I had received on Monday and out on the SV!

First impression was "OMG how different the riding position was to anything I had been on before", but that was quickly replaced by "OMG how quick off the mark is it!!!!"

Took it for a blast through the New Forest out to Lymington, didnt go too far or push it too much as it was drizzling, and well... i'm only fresh out!

Took it round to a few family members homes to show them and everyone was really impressed with it. I also noticed that it certainly turns alot of heads when out riding.

Overall, I really started to enjoy the ride, obviously not as much as I could due to the rain, (it is going to be kept for fair weather riding!) but I've still got a long way to go. I think my gear changes on the SV will need a bit of refinement and I was amazed at the amount of engine braking that it gives. In total I covered about 60 miles today and certainly towards the end of the ride it was feeling alot smoother, (the gearbox seems very silky!) but I suppose thats all down to experience.

I am for nicer weather tomorrow but I dont think it will be! I cannot wait to get back out again, as its all very new, even to the extent that I had never ridden in leathers before and that felt abit odd to start with. (Although the RST's seems to be fitting very nicely and feel pretty comfortable.

Well I'm going to retire for the night now, but as people have said, I have a grin that reaches ear to ear, and it shows no sign of disappearing soon!!

[Shellywoozle]

Ahhh sounds like you had a brill day on ya new toy, I remember that feeling first day out on mine.

And I agree with the RST's, I have the RST6-7 and they didnt need breaking in, so comfy.

Hope the weather is good for you tomorrow so you can play more. Ride safe

congrats i wish i had the guts to do a bike test but i never will, will try and sit on my hubbies bike as pillon i feel much better

Originally Posted by Shellywoozle

Welcome and congratulations on passing your test.

The grin on your face must be massive from having a new cat on your license and having Blueto's pointy, which looks lovely.

Enjoy the summer.

Oh and Blue where are my tunes you promised me?

shells,

as soon as photbucket allows me to upload them they are yours babe!

well done on passing. just reading your wee story gave me butterflies. I remember those first few days with the SV. First day I picked it up week after passing DAS I did almost 400 miles as I was too scared to drive up my driveway coz neighbours were watching and I wouldnt turn right as I couldnt do it properly. didnt go back on bike for a week I was so sore lol