Suzuki SV650 or Suzuki GSR600? Thoughts/Comments

[Mauricio]

With just jets and filters and pipe you go 91 hp ... up from that 60 or so stock. That is huge. 10% is about the maximum. How did it go to 91.
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Buddha.

http://www.spearsenterprises.com/products.html

The man sold me a set of his cams and FCRs... 

Nuts, innit?

Cams, head work, FCRs w/pods, exhaust. That's it. Makes you wonder what it'll do with the 2 mm overbore pistons, which also push compression to 12.5:1, but then it'll need the bottom end strengthened. Spendy... maybe in 2011.

[The Buddha]

Nice ... $$$ is best spent on the head if you want performance ... 4 strokes ... head out weighs anything else 5 to 1.
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[drewbytes]

I haven't ridden an SV so can't comment on what they're like, but I quite like my GSR600.

The all black version (2008) looks horn, I don't particularly like the look of the mixed colour versions though.

Typically a GSR600 will dyno around 90hp at the wheel stock. Has enough torque at low rpm for around town for me - certainly plenty more than a GS500 at same rpm.

[The Buddha]

This GSR600 we dont get stateside I believe, of course we get the B-King which channels this bike, albeit in a much more garrish package.
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[NF11624]

Actually this bike channels the B-King... and I think they both are pretty not-good looking - at least from the pics (and B-King in person).  Something about how bulky they look (especially in the front) irks me.  Maybe the GSR looks better in person... but as we don't get them here I doubt I'll ever know.  Also, anyone ever ridden the GSR 400?  Looks the same but the 400cc powerplant might be a interesting swap into a GSXR frame (for our CC restricted friends).

[The Buddha]

The Burger King looks like freaking garbage.
I actually have decided that 2008/9 was the year designers made garbage and blamed us for not buying it.

Seriously too many bikes miss the point IMHO ...

New Vmax, Bking, the fury (needs a wider rear tar), M109 - needs narrower front end, gladius ... that bike needs a crusher the versys and that other twin wiht that 650 - needs better headlight on both, and many more idiotic bikes.

In comparison the ninja 650 is really nice.

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[tt_four]

While the whole thing is a bit awkward and ugly looking, the thing I really can't get are those giant exhausts sticking out the back. Some aftermarket exhausts are a bit shorter and don't look as bad, but it's still a weird concept, and I think they tried a little too hard to make it look like it had a jet engine sticking out of the back....


I'm also tired of all these naked bikes having these things sticking out of the sides of the tank and covering the frame. Whether they're actually functional as airscoops or if they're just decorative, they should stop. If they want ram air they should just put little ducts under the frame like previous generation buell XBs. You don't even know they're there unless you really look at it. Overall the hayabusa is a bit of an acquired taste, but still is designed to be functional. They should've just stuck more with that shape, even if naked bikes don't really need to be aerodynamic. It should've looked more like a naked busa with a gsxr tail. I'm not crazy about all these basketball shaped headlights they keep coming out with either.