12-13-2002, 02:29 AM
well well well what can i say?....(that i havent already said in the million other posts)
ahhh the SV wow! that lil' yella bitch of a bike has me as sore as all hell! laugh as i did at those that have to crouch over their bikes and you will be punished with sore arms and legs that dont work when you take an SV650 to the track for a good work out!
being that its not the S model the ergonimics of the bike are centred more around cruising/commuting....and now i can confirm it images/icons/grin.gif
i can truly see why everyone raves on about the little twin though! what a load of fun!!!! after getting used to the initial twitchiness and body positiong whilst turning i really felt that with another track day i could truly hold my own...sure an extra 30hp wouldnt go astray but hey if it was my bike i would have given it a whole lot more and i reckon i would have been able to hold it with the rest of the B groupers.... (which seemed to just walk me between the corners into the straights...) you will be proud to know that i was rarely if ever passed mid corner or through a corner....and indeed made up alot of ground on others there through the corners....it was between them that i suffered images/icons/tongue.gif once again oweing to the fact that i was scared to go balls out with a bike that wasnt mine.
by the end of the day i was giving it a bit more between the corners holding a better corner speed and really getting onto the brakes....the other guys complained about brake fade but being a twin i think it has awesome engine braking ability, and the set of HEL SS lines i put on a few days prior did a helluva job also! faultless! i wont say a bad thing about the brakes at all....(mind you i aint no pro racer)
i certainly wasnt as quick with the SV as i was with my old gix 98 750 but it was probably more involving to ride the SV and alot more punishing on the body....
if it had of been an SV650S i feel things could be different being centred more around "race" it would have been alot more comfy.
the soreness i am feeling now is due to the weight i had to put on my arms becase of the raised handle bars also my legs! perhaps some will say its technique but when getting the knee down it felt as if i was going to fall off the bike!!!! mind you i look like i dwarf the darn thing images/icons/tongue.gif
as you can see in this pic ZedR1000 took of me coming down teh straight and getting ready for turn 1
http://www.gixxer.com/uploads/1039666720.jpg
i did see 200 going down the straight but thats not with optimum exit speed and set up before coming down the straight...like i said, i was tentative to give it heaps....
did wish it had more grunt though!
ahhh the SV wow! that lil' yella bitch of a bike has me as sore as all hell! laugh as i did at those that have to crouch over their bikes and you will be punished with sore arms and legs that dont work when you take an SV650 to the track for a good work out!
being that its not the S model the ergonimics of the bike are centred more around cruising/commuting....and now i can confirm it images/icons/grin.gif
i can truly see why everyone raves on about the little twin though! what a load of fun!!!! after getting used to the initial twitchiness and body positiong whilst turning i really felt that with another track day i could truly hold my own...sure an extra 30hp wouldnt go astray but hey if it was my bike i would have given it a whole lot more and i reckon i would have been able to hold it with the rest of the B groupers.... (which seemed to just walk me between the corners into the straights...) you will be proud to know that i was rarely if ever passed mid corner or through a corner....and indeed made up alot of ground on others there through the corners....it was between them that i suffered images/icons/tongue.gif once again oweing to the fact that i was scared to go balls out with a bike that wasnt mine.
by the end of the day i was giving it a bit more between the corners holding a better corner speed and really getting onto the brakes....the other guys complained about brake fade but being a twin i think it has awesome engine braking ability, and the set of HEL SS lines i put on a few days prior did a helluva job also! faultless! i wont say a bad thing about the brakes at all....(mind you i aint no pro racer)
i certainly wasnt as quick with the SV as i was with my old gix 98 750 but it was probably more involving to ride the SV and alot more punishing on the body....
if it had of been an SV650S i feel things could be different being centred more around "race" it would have been alot more comfy.
the soreness i am feeling now is due to the weight i had to put on my arms becase of the raised handle bars also my legs! perhaps some will say its technique but when getting the knee down it felt as if i was going to fall off the bike!!!! mind you i look like i dwarf the darn thing images/icons/tongue.gif
as you can see in this pic ZedR1000 took of me coming down teh straight and getting ready for turn 1
http://www.gixxer.com/uploads/1039666720.jpg
i did see 200 going down the straight but thats not with optimum exit speed and set up before coming down the straight...like i said, i was tentative to give it heaps....
did wish it had more grunt though!