Just thought this would be a cool new topic. If there is already one in existence please let me know so I can delete this one, or a mod can do it. As for me I finished my under tail project and rode the crap out of it.
What did you do to your SV today? (mods, farkles, maintenance, etc)
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On1wheel01
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Left it at home while Tropical Storm Debbie rolls through and pummels my state with rain and wind 
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i can actually post something in this thread finally... a week ago i raised it back up from the P.O. lowering it.. finally got a stock kickstand and my "LED Relay" off of ebay came in yesterday. installed both.. now no more "gangster lean" when on the kickstand and normal speed blinkers... hurray!
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Post a pic! Looks like those are the Aztec8 5 3/4 inch duals. I have the same lights, and have had them for the last 5 years. Still loving them.
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Got rid of the hideous fairing stays. Tweaked my new Koso gauge so that the rpms and speedo read correctly (installed the actual gauge this weekend). Couldn't be happier with the outcome. Functions great and looks sick.
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What kind of belly pan is that?picked up my bike a few days ago and already put on a corbin seat and my belly pan on! Will eventually paint it blue
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Yeah, I went with the 5 3/4 lights. The install went very smoothly. I'm liking the light output of these over the stock single headlight. I've done a lot of work on the bike recently and I need to give it a good wash before I start taking some good pics. Anyway, here's a pic after the install.
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Nice! Here's my version. Had them on the stock front end for 4 years, then put them on the gsxr front end when I put that last year. I guess this kind of qualifies for this thread, but this pic was taken about a month ago after I moved the lights down and repositioned the xb flyscreen.
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Different lens. My left light has burned out a few times, and a couple times the lens cracked due to rocks off the road. Anyway, the last shipment of lights from Scott came with the refractive surface on the bowl of the light, instead of the lens. I put the refractive bowl lights in, then one of them burned out because I squished the ground against the back of the housing with the light plug. So, I put my spare light in, which is the original kind.
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Yesterday - Installed new shifter and happily chucked the Home Depot/Lowe's special the PO had on there. Shifts like a dream, good deal easier to find neutral, too.
Today - Unstuck the rear caliper's piston, changed the rear brake fluid (that crap looked horrid) and adjusted the rear brake pedal, which I was reading how to do improperly all this time. (Never went this in depth on a bike before.) It's great to have rear brakes and a pedal that doesn't need to be buried to get 10% braking out of them. ...not that I use the rear brakes much with the engine braking on this ******* bike. Still, pads are low, though. New ones on the way, as I thought that's what the problem originally was. (The circular pin that holds them on, that you uncover with a flat head screw driver, I can't even budge, though. That ******* thing is ON there. Not the flat head screw driver part the allen wrench part.)
Today - Unstuck the rear caliper's piston, changed the rear brake fluid (that crap looked horrid
) and adjusted the rear brake pedal, which I was reading how to do improperly all this time. (Never went this in depth on a bike before.) It's great to have rear brakes and a pedal that doesn't need to be buried to get 10% braking out of them. ...not that I use the rear brakes much with the engine braking on this ******* bike. Still, pads are low, though. New ones on the way, as I thought that's what the problem originally was. (The circular pin that holds them on, that you uncover with a flat head screw driver, I can't even budge, though. That ******* thing is ON there. Not the flat head screw driver part the allen wrench part.)
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meh...it was once...and you didn't stay that high, right? Sounds like you didn't FIRMLY shift into second...I get that sometimes when I'm accelerating hard and use a lazy foot to shift. I've taken mine into the red because of the same thing and had the limiter kick in...no biggie. Been a long time since that's happened though...I make sure I shift with a firm force now...and with GP it's easier cuz you're pushing downward. Have fun!
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I reinstalled my carbs which I cleaned up and rebuilt this week. I also took my fuel petcock apart and got it working again.
I knew the carbs were due for a little attention based on the bike's degraded performance lately - but the thing had obviously been a little out of tune ever since I've owned it because it's now a totally different animal. Hell, I feel like I gained 20 horsepower!
I knew the carbs were due for a little attention based on the bike's degraded performance lately - but the thing had obviously been a little out of tune ever since I've owned it because it's now a totally different animal. Hell, I feel like I gained 20 horsepower!
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