How does your restricted 33bhp pointy SV650 feel?

Originally Posted by kcowgergmm

i am glad in the Us you can have full power from day 1 but it might be why all the idiots kill them selfs within the first year

the bike only goes as fast as you make it...restricted or otherwise

the restricted bike feels dull. two stroke 125's for ftw!

Well I can't answer your question completely as I am running in my Restricted SV650 so I can't do more than 5500 revs, but compared to my Bandit 650 it has a lot more get up and go.

What the dealer explained to me is that the restrictor only kicks in at the higher revs, so at the bottom end it behaves just like a normal bike.

Originally Posted by wknight

Well I can't answer your question completely as I am running in my Restricted SV650 so I can't do more than 5500 revs, but compared to my Bandit 650 it has a lot more get up and go.

What the dealer explained to me is that the restrictor only kicks in at the higher revs, so at the bottom end it behaves just like a normal bike.

taht's probably right, but i bet the bandit is a lot faster bike -certainly consdierably more powerful in standard form, no? and waht r u on about 'get up and go' - the sv is slow below 6k, standard form as it is! ( i really do have perverse sense of speed - i was bored with the sv before i ahd it restricted - too easy to ride probably :-p) anyhow, you dont get much more grunt up top anyway so you arent missing out (while it's restricted).

my advise would be live a bit and ******** to the restriction. but rememeber if you're having fun, you're probably doign something illegal -hell if it wasn't necessary to reproduce i reckon the gov't wud tax us every time we had sex!

where was i --->

equivalently sized in-line 4's tend to win in the power stakes. the ducati 749 was put down by What Bike? magazine on account of the fact that jap 600's wud kick it's ****.

[northwind]

Originally Posted by Uberloinvongenchler

taht's probably right, but i bet the bandit is a lot faster bike -certainly consdierably more powerful in standard form, no?

It's a fair bit more powerful, but it's also a fair bit heavier...SV's faster 0-60 and over a quarter mile. Absolute max speed, the new Bandit has the edge I think but they both take all day to get there

You don't have to remove the restrictor to have fun, I want to live to see my next paycheck as there is a lot more I want to get out of life

I am not one of the idiots who thinks its fun to do a quick overtake and almost get themselves wiped out in the process

Somebody I rode with got killed recently on his bike, not because he was doing anything wrong, but it looks like some idiot, this time in a car, was probably going too fast and came around the bend to find someone in the road waiting to turn. He couldn't stop, hit the cars which threw them into the path of the bike

Remember, its not just your life its other peoples as well. We can all have fun but its important to be responsible for your actions and remember the consequences for everyone of what you do, which means family, friends and other innocent people who were there at the time

Wise words wknight.

Uberloin, the reason for the restriction is to prevent you killing yourself or somebody else while you still know everything, which you clearly think you do. You have "a perverse sense" of you own ability and immortality, good job I'm not your dad, sonny boy

I'm only glad I and my family don't live too near to a little village east of Cambridge !

Uberloin.

As already stated it is there to stop you killing yourself. I am not a power head but I am glad I didnt have more than a 125 to learn on and have after my test was over. 2 Wheels will always be dangerous and you need to treat it with the respect it is due.

The law is a fantastic way to let you get on a bigger bike without killing yourself at the first throttle pull. There has been suggestions of keeping people on 125's for a few years but I think the way it is, is just fine.

Please take care because we dont want to see you under a car.

Originally Posted by oldjack

Wise words wknight.

Uberloin, the reason for the restriction is to prevent you killing yourself or somebody else while you still know everything, which you clearly think you do. You have "a perverse sense" of you own ability and immortality, good job I'm not your dad, sonny boy

I'm only glad I and my family don't live too near to a little village east of Cambridge !

i don't see how im any less likely to kill myself on a restricted bike. i thrash it a lot more than i thrashed the more powerful biek because i respected it more. :S

also, i'm not that brilliant at riding a bike. and i always find my self irritated by finding out there is always so much more to know than one already does...

also, i don't think i'm immortal. i think i will probably die very soon. i don't think anyone should ride a bike if they are not prepared to accept the consequences of making yourself so vulnerable, which is fortuantely not possible if you die...

i don't fear death either. i fear more being made paralysed so that i coudn't kill myself afterwards to put myself out of the misery.

yes i agree that is somewhat perverse -hardly the "typical" attitude. one could fairly argue that you shouldn't be on the road if you don't fear death because you would ride wrecklessly.

i don't ride wrecklessly though...i just don't like my bike spluttering at 7k and feeling stiffled...

i have ridden worse and taken more risks on the bike since it was restricted. i know not of how to respect the power of the bike when i am bored with it already :S

perhaps i'll learn the hardway, as i probably deserve.

Originally Posted by fullstop102

Uberloin.

As already stated it is there to stop you killing yourself. I am not a power head but I am glad I didnt have more than a 125 to learn on and have after my test was over. 2 Wheels will always be dangerous and you need to treat it with the respect it is due.

The law is a fantastic way to let you get on a bigger bike without killing yourself at the first throttle pull. There has been suggestions of keeping people on 125's for a few years but I think the way it is, is just fine.

Please take care because we dont want to see you under a car.

i think that arguemnt is more perverse. no law will stop someone from killing themselves. do you think a speedfreak 19 year old or 21 year oldf having passed DAS would be up to riding a gsxr1000? no... do you think someone who respected it's power but wasn't the most experienced person in the world could, probably...

m sv is still restricted. im bored, so ill use the school bus instead of being illegal. (no really).

would be nice to hear davido's opinion here. his sv restrictor came out one week after he got it due to being bored too, and he got bored with a full power sv after 3 months so he bought a gsxr600. he's still alive and hasn't caused an accident. it can't be purely fluke or drivers compensating, because I believe that you make your own luck. hope he enjoys living life a bit, as long as he isn't doing top speed runs.

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by Uberloinvongenchler

because I believe that you make your own luck

I agree with this.

But I also have the opinion that the law is there for a reason, even if you dont agree with that reason you should still respect the law. Or expect to get shafted if you break it and get caught.

I certainly wouldnt be crowing about what you might or might not do on an internet forum, Especially one where this kind of argument has been done to death ( no pun intended ) so many times.

Your bikes resticted, TBH your not doing yourself alot of favours by pursuing your line of argument, you've had one thread locked already, give it a rest eyh.

For the record, your just as likely to crash a 33bhp bike as a 70bhp bike, or even more. My 12bhp 125 was to fast for me when I first passed my DAS, my SV was and my GSXR still is. But if I had passed my test and got my GSXR for a first bike I'd be dead now. BHP has got nothing to do with it, its about your "road attitude" at 17 I thought I was bl**dy invicable and I drove accordingly, I wasnt in a position to judge what was best for me, I wouldnt listen to advice or reason from anybody I thought I knew best. A few close shaves, a minor prang or two and I learnt my lesson eventually. I still drive / ride fast, but I'm much much more aware now of how easy it is to get myself into trouble. The point I'm badly trying to make is that at 16 or 17 I dont believe your able to to do that, hence why the government put the 33bhp restriction into place, to protect you from yourself. Yes you might be a riding god, the next Rossi or whatever, but if you wanna go fast, take it on the track.

I've lost 1 good friend in a bike accident, another forum member who I had ridden with died last year in a bike accident. One of my best friends was knocked over by a car driver who was 3 times over the drink drive limit last year. YOU might not care if you die or not, but goddamit man the people you leave behind will. Spare them a thought.