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Old Jan 10th, 2012, 5:04 pm   #1 (permalink)
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thinking SV650 to s2r1000

My name is Danny. I'm an older guy who lives on Long Island. After 25 years out of the saddle I climbed back on in '02 with a Bonneville. 4 years and 40,000 wonderful miles later I was smitten with the GT1000. The GT and I had a love/hate type of relationship so I put on 6,000 miles and traded it in for an 07 Triumph Tiger 1050. Even though it was a bit too large a motorcycle for me (I'm 5'8" w/ a 30" inseam) I liked it a lot EXCEPT for the fact that it was one of a handful of the Tiger 1050's which were oil burners.....a quart per 1250 miles. So I bought an '03 Suzuki SV650N with less than 2,000 miles in Feb of '09. As of now the SV has 27,000 happy miles. As I always do, I farkled the heck out of it......a very long list of mostly functional stuff.....I'm an older guy in case you forgot.
Two days ago I stopped by my local BMW/Triumph/Ducati dealer where I have purchased all of my Triumphs and the Ducatis (4 in all).....all new. He has an '06 s2r1000 with less than 10,000 miles and in remarkable shape. I don't think I can resist it. With the twin Arrow cans it's beautiful.
From what I can see the engine is identical to my GT but the bargain basement suspension that came with the GT....at least seems to be a bit upgraded (adjustable front preload with a monoshock in the back). Can anyone here possibly give me some sort of comparrison between my GT1000 and this s2r. The bars and pegs on the Duc are a bit too aggressive for my aging and noncompliant body. I fixed that in a jiffy on my SV. On my GT I went down a tooth on the front sprocket to smooth out a bit of the "character" that the bike exhibited at 3500-4000 RPM (a nice improvement IMO). I'm aware of the fuel tank situation. Can anybody that has ridden the s2r and the GT1000 compare the two. And I would love if somebody were able give a comparison between the SV and the s2r......of course leaving out the extreme "cool" factor of the S2R. One more thing: The SV650 was usually given the nod over the SV1000 for total lack of driveability problems and nimbleness. Would anybody care to opine regarding the s2r1000 vs. the s2r800?
Sorry for the long post.....thanks for any and all feedback. Hope to join the bunch here once again.
Danny
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