Had a fantastic ride out today.

Originally Posted by phil24_7

Surely someone could get it roadworthy for you so you can at least ride it while your waiting for parts??

Yes that would be possible, however, I am having it done under the insurance so they have to keep it at JHS Racing until it is all fixed again.

Oh, ok!

Well I have to admit that the recent couple of days sunny weather has given me the odd pang or two - seeing as I dropped the Varadero of to it's new owner last weekend (Northampton to Reading in the rain, deep joy ) and I'm now bikeless for a while.

But then I went for a bit of a meander in my car.

Yeah, I know... a cage.


However it reminded me how much I adore my car - it's been languishing in my garage for the past 5 years.

Tchaikovsky drifting from the speakers, sunny blue sky, clean, dry roads, quiet twisties galore... rear wheel drive heaven.

OK, so the old girl will be 30 this year and definately isn't the fastest thing on the block, but boy was it a fun drive. So much so I managed to completely forget I didn't have a bike to enjoy it all on and was just lost in re-discovering how much I loved this car.


(Taken back in the days when I still had my SV too.)

Originally Posted by phil24_7

and a 911 carrera 4 turbo who bottled it at 130 on a dual carriage way (private of course) round a sizeable bend!!

on a SV, hmmm someone is optomistic arent they?

Originally Posted by neio79

on a SV, hmmm someone is optomistic arent they?

Tis possible the bike is geared for 145mph... thing is unless you are going down hill it wont pull even pull 125 real speed. I had 10K in top gear down hill which is about 135mph (real) was indicating 148mph, when I say hill its about 2 miles long and steep and when I put my head up I lost 15mph instant!

So anyway 130mph indicated I guess might be 118ish in real terms which is pretty possible.

Originally Posted by ThEGr33k

Tis possible the bike is geared for 145mph... thing is unless you are going down hill it wont pull even pull 125 real speed. I had 10K in top gear down hill which is about 135mph (real) was indicating 148mph, when I say hill its about 2 miles long and steep and when I put my head up I lost 15mph instant!

So anyway 130mph indicated I guess might be 118ish in real terms which is pretty possible.

No way on this planet is an SV geared for 145mph!! there are some dreamers on this site

even 130 indicated on an SV requires Hethrows runway to achieve.

Originally Posted by phil24_7

She was most definately not. I'd be dead if I did that sort of speed with her on the back cuz she'd kill me when we stopped!!

So are you saying you can only have fun when she is not around??? {stir stir}

Originally Posted by foxyinleather

Is there anything else to think about ??

Umm....Hot blokes out of their leathers - or in my case**, hot women?

** I can't speak for the rest of the blokes on here, some of them might be those homersexurals you read about.

Originally Posted by neio79

on a SV, hmmm someone is optomistic arent they?

We're back to the old "how fast is yours" again. 130 on the clock is easily achievable, whether it's anywhere near true speed is a different matter. I'm going to go out today and try to get a photo of my speedo reading flat out (for the benefit of officers of the law, I know a long private road). It's going to be way off the actual true top speed, but maybe it'll hush some people when they say you won't see this or that on the clock. I run stock front tyre size and my bike isn't tuned or played with apart from the airbox snorkel is removed and the stubbied Akrapovic end can, so it should be virtually the same as anyone else's 650K5S is capable of.

All I have to do now is figure out a way to duct tape a Sony Ericcson K800i to my helmet or tank leaving the camera button pressable.

Originally Posted by phil24_7

You'll find it hard balancing the carbs on a pointy as it's got fuel injection!

Since when do I own a pointy?
You're right though, I would find it hard, but that's just because I've never done it/seen anyone do it, and to be honest don't have a clue about what balancing does, let alone how to do it

Originally Posted by phil24_7

Tyres wont make it backfire either as it's a fueling issue, have you recently fitted an aftermarket exhaust as this would make it backfire. Many people on here find this and they also find they quite like it and do nothing about it (me being one of them!!).

I wasn't suggesting that the tyres were making it backfire
I meant it's only started doing it since I picked it up from the garage who did my tyres (to get an idea of time) The bloke said it was running lumpy so I should probably get it serviced (possibly through them)..
Has a scorpion exhaust on it, which was fitted well before I got the bike, but it's never backfired before, since I've had it at least.
Doesn't backfire when I shut off the throttle, but when I'm accelerating and hit a slight bump it goes bang. Did it mid corner yesterday, nearly shat myself.
Got onto an A road, national limit, and it would backfire everytime there was even a suggestion of a bump.. revs would drop for a sec and then BANG (sometimes BANG BANG BANG ), and then it would pick up again. Made overtakes even more dodgy than normal!!

Originally Posted by phil24_7

On the alarm front, is there a light on the fobs to show when your pushing a button or to help guide your key? If so does it still light up?? It may be worth changing the batteries to see if the ones you have are dead. This can easily happen if something has been put on top of them causing the buttons to be pushed in constantly.

No LED on the fob. Tried changing batteries.. no luck
So now my bike is immobilised in my garage. Can't get someone to have a look at it as I have no way of getting it to them (sold motocross trailer with the bike), unless I can borrow a van


I'm sure it's all coincidence but it's slightly odd that both have gone wrong since I got my bike back