[MagpieTear]

Went poking around the low roads that are "Closed" from the recent flooding in Paintertown, Ardara and Trafford to survey the damage from the flooding a few weeks ago. Got yelled at by a cop for squeezing between the signs that said "Road Closed" and "Do Not Enter" ;D

Made me realize that even though I had almost $1,000 in damage in my basement and garage, I got off light compared to many around me. There are people who are still cleaning up almost a month later.

 

[Apollo1777]

I only added some decals to the track bike today. I'm still waiting on my SVRider.com stickers (*pokes Stew*)

It's also waiting to be picked up and taken to NHMS where I will actually get to ride it for the first time. I CANNOT WAIT TO RIDE THIS BIKE!!

what kind of bright yellow battery is that? and lube that chain!!

 

[galahad05]

Disconnected my tach signal wire, partially reassembled the bike (upper side fairings still off) and took it out for a test ride. Front cylinder seems to be firing, so maybe the problem was an intermittently shorting tach.

Let's hope.

 

[tlc4diving]

Changed the rear brake fluid, oil, air filter and antifreeze. Also, tightened and cleaned the chain.

 

[intgra2ner]

Modified my home-brew swing-arm stand to work with my Motosliders swing-arm sliders. When I first made the stand I just cut a "v" in the side of the square tube to hold the spool and it worked great! Always got compliments on my stand at track-days.

Now I had to make it have spool holders like all the expensive stands have, and once again I used material I had laying around so I still have $0 in this stand, just about 1.25 hrs time in this now. I need to make the silver spool holders flatter, but they were brackets for the tool-box wheels that I used for the stand, so they were curved. The stand works great, just making the holders flat would make scratching the swing-arm not so easy to do. Oh yeah, I need to primer & paint it again- it's starting to look rough again, but function>form right?

 

[J-Dog]

Installed some rearset riser plates yesterday. About 1 inch back and 1/2 inch up. Me likey.

 

[alext60]

I finally installed the lower fairing on mine and my friends sv. It makes such a big difference.

 

[LSCYCLING]

cleaned and lubed the chain!!!

 

[Sc0tt]

yesteday I removed radiator to clean and JB Weld. had a nice stream coming out of the front from being impaled by a pebble or something. hoping my happy thoughts will help cure and seal that hole.

hoping to flush and test out later today

 

[dugkil]

Just did an oil change. Rotella T. And a OEM oil filter. A good clean tomorrow and a double check on the shifter I installed and she'll be ready to go.

 

[Sc0tt]

remounted my "fixed" radiator and all the fun stuff that goes with doing that. let it idle up to 215 before shutting down, cleaned up re-checked the fluids and got her all dressed again. will be taking it out for a tes ride tomorrow after work. then start looking for a new radiator :dontknow:

 

[Lost1888]

Rode it some more. Made a few videos to hear how it sounds coming and going. It sounds like it sounds:ears:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deCXXoSxrxU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ4CzkhEIRA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O_P6bTj9sQ

 

[ShaggyZ]

I think I was just the first person to view those. Very nice.

 

[Lost1888]

Thanks Shaggy. I need to get a camera mount and fix my tripod. I guess that's what I'll do tomorrow.

 

[Juice McGoose]

Got home with shim stock so I could install my new Yosh TRS. I think the SV650 is a particularly loud bike. It's louder than my ZX-14 with a TRS. I am going to test it with a Radio Shack sound dB meter tomorrow and see what I get.

Got it together in time for a sunset ride. Man it was nice out. Just enough clouds to make the sky orange. I love the smell of a new exhaust.

Had the bike 11 days now and between the Corbin and the Yosh I'm really starting to like this bike.

 

[eddiemon]

Nice videos Lost1888!

I installed the Intimidators Saturday and I test rode the bike Sunday. I was very impressed with how my bike rides now! I posted it Sunday in the Ricor thread, forgot to post here, lol.

I had my SV for 2 years and of all the things I have done with the bike, the Intimidators are by far the best mod that I have made to my bike. ;D

 

[Lost1888]

Thanks Eddie. Another thing to add to the list of things I need to get done to my SV someday. It never ends.;D

 

[ShaggyZ]

Nice videos Lost1888!

I installed the Intimidators Saturday and I test rode the bike Sunday. I was very impressed with how my bike rides now! I posted it Sunday in the Ricor thread, forgot to post here, lol.

I had my SV for 2 years and of all the things I have done with the bike, the Intimidators are by far the best mod that I have made to my bike. ;D

Riding with the goofy, stock suspension for a couple years can teach you to be pretty smooth so when you move to good suspension, your habits cause you to be REALLY smooth. That's been my experience, at least - I got fast on old, SV forks and rear shock and then upgraded it all so I *think* I'm quite a bit faster now.

 

[Lost1888]

Riding with the goofy, stock suspension for a couple years can teach you to be pretty smooth so when you move to good suspension, your habits cause you to be REALLY smooth. That's been my experience, at least - I got fast on old, SV forks and rear shock and then upgraded it all so I *think* I'm quite a bit faster now.

Makes sense.

 

[Manolian]

Installed new rear tire ( Bridgestone BT-090), cleaned and lubed chain.