I bought a new bike - a Yamaha SCR950

[The Buddha]

I bought a new bike and traitorated my GS500 blood, Not a Suzuki, a Yamaha, not a Parallel twin, a V twin, not a chain drive, belt and no carb, FI. Not even mag wheels, spoked aluminum. Bike #44 or 45 and first new bike in the US.

Here is a pic.

You can score a serious deal on these - holzhauer motorsport in IL has these for $3999 +TTL = $5289 for a new 2017 (one year wonder).
I sadly didn't drive 1500 mi to get mine, and paid 700 more. But it was 90 mi away. Opted for laziness over cheapness.

Cool.
Buddha.

[beRto]

Looks great! Congrats! 

[ShowBizWolf]

Very cool Buddha! Looks nice

[Watcher]

I've always liked the look of those, let us know how it rides!

[The Buddha]

Tall, heavy slow and hard as a 2X4 for the seat - narrow side.

However a few strategic parts can be unbolted and swapped out and it becomes a Bolt C spec, and a few other parts swapped out make it an R spec and I have a passenger footpeg set with SCR which is not there on any bolt unless you shell out a few 100 more LOL.

Yamaha had a few 1000 C spec rider foot peg carriers and passenger footpegs left over and decided to slap em onto something, and put a seat hoop on and a bench seat and call it an SCR.

Behind those round plates on the sides - a huge gap left to right enough to store a gal of milk.

I'll put more pics as I work on it.


Cool.
Buddha.

[qcbaker]

Very cool, looking forward to seeing what you do with it.

[mr72]

I really like the look of those bikes a lot, and that's a screaming good deal.

[cbrfxr67]

gallon of milk!
WINNING!

sweet ride good sir!

[The Buddha]

That bike is a nightmare to ride. Easily the most uncomfortable thing I have ever sat on for more than 5 mins.
Its tall, heavy, slow, uncomfortable and the seat slides like you've got a Teflon a$$$.
Any 2-3 of those are bearable, but not all.
I'm going to try to make it lower and less painful and definitely my butt will stay where I sit it. Not 6" forward under braking or 4" back when accelerating.
So - heavy and slow - and hey ... that's my nickname too.

BTW if I did it right - it will look like a C spec. Café racer, Harley XR750 knock off
If I do it wrong ... it would looks like a base bolt with C spec foot peg location.

Cool.
Buddha.

[TonyKZ1]

Congrats on the new bike. Big St. Charles here in MO (a partner dealership of the Holzhauer Motorsport in IL) also has them for $3999. I haven't gone up there and demo'd one yet but will eventually. It kinda sucks that they're a one year wonder, but should have parts support for many years by using the Bolt platform.

[Kilted1]

I'm not sure I'd buy a tall, heavy, slow, uncomfortable bike no matter how good the deal was.  But hey, if you're happy, I'm happy for you!   

Can't wait to see what you do to it. 

[mr72]

I was trying to talk my dad into jumping on one of these blowout $4K deals on a new SCR950, but then he rode my Bonneville around and now he's convinced he'd rather have a 6-7 year old Bonnie than the new Yamaha. I have to admit, it's really hard to not fall in love with the Bonneville.

Still, the SCR looks pretty cool to me. Tall sounds fine. And I bet exhaust, airbox and remapping could get another 5-10 hp out of it and frankly 48 hp for that bike is not that bad. You could get it down to Bonneville weight likely with exhaust swap and get rid of the catalyst.

[yamahonkawazuki]

Buddha, had i known you were going to do this, id have smacked ya while i was in chartlotte october 11th. just kidding my friend. congrats my friend. congrats. i kinda like the retro look of it tbh. you can change the seat at some point to keep the indian from rendering himself sterile.
Aaron

[Cal Price]

Interesting project, be fascinated to know how you tackle the slippery A$$$ / Saddle problem, I don't recommend sandpaper for either mate.