TL;DR - Hi. Been riding and wrenching for a while, just got an SV650S, needs work, looking to learn the nuances of the platform.
Hello all. Happy to be here. Just wanted to do a little intro on me and why I'm here.
I've been riding motorcycles on the street for 25 years and doing track days for the last 10. I've had a bunch of bikes over those years and seem to always come back to Suzuki. I've got a bunch of bikes right now but am here because of the '07 SV650S I picked up last October. I do all my own maintenance, repairs and modifications; or at least as much as I can without owning a dyno for fuel tuning so I have a habit of buying derelict bikes for next to nothing and bringing them back to life. This brought me and the SV together.
Bike had been sitting for over 4 years, had no battery and the PO didn't have many answers to my questions. I bought it anyway and brought it home. It had a seized fuel pump but no big deal, I had 2 spares on the shelf. After the swap and some good gas she runs pretty ok. Well enough to ride it a bit and learn the suspension really is THAT bad, the brakes suck and that I should have gotten a V-twin a LONG time ago. The need to repair these things has brought me here.
After lots and lots of searching and reading and searching and reading I found a very comprehensive thread on doing a GSX-R front suspension swap on this bike. It's even better than the videos I found on YouTube. So, in order to more easily find that thread again and to learn more tips and tricks about this bike I figured I should sign up and here I am.
Anyway, I hope to learn more and maybe even become a useful member of the community.
Hello all. Happy to be here. Just wanted to do a little intro on me and why I'm here.
I've been riding motorcycles on the street for 25 years and doing track days for the last 10. I've had a bunch of bikes over those years and seem to always come back to Suzuki. I've got a bunch of bikes right now but am here because of the '07 SV650S I picked up last October. I do all my own maintenance, repairs and modifications; or at least as much as I can without owning a dyno for fuel tuning so I have a habit of buying derelict bikes for next to nothing and bringing them back to life. This brought me and the SV together.
Bike had been sitting for over 4 years, had no battery and the PO didn't have many answers to my questions. I bought it anyway and brought it home. It had a seized fuel pump but no big deal, I had 2 spares on the shelf. After the swap and some good gas she runs pretty ok. Well enough to ride it a bit and learn the suspension really is THAT bad, the brakes suck and that I should have gotten a V-twin a LONG time ago. The need to repair these things has brought me here.
After lots and lots of searching and reading and searching and reading I found a very comprehensive thread on doing a GSX-R front suspension swap on this bike. It's even better than the videos I found on YouTube. So, in order to more easily find that thread again and to learn more tips and tricks about this bike I figured I should sign up and here I am.
Anyway, I hope to learn more and maybe even become a useful member of the community.
