Quote from: spcterry on April 02, 2008, 05:25:14 PM
Yeah, but my valves always sound like they're about to explode and they only have to be serviced every other $50 do-it-yourself oil change

My baby Duc may be a maintenance hog but she's mine and I love her, especially when all the little squids on Gixxers drool over her........until all the Harley guys push em out of the way to compliment me on having a crotch rocket that doesn't sound like a turbo'ed honda accord.

Its gotta be nice being loved by everybody.

ya, but $40 for a gallon of oil is insane!  Let's not even get started on what little things like timing belts and brake light switches cost

Quote from: spcterry on April 02, 2008, 08:16:45 PM
ya, but $40 for a gallon of oil is insane!  Let's not even get started on what little things like timing belts and brake light switches cost

WHAT!?!?!?  Dear god!

Timing BELTS? 

Ja, I like my zook.   

Ja, and tensioners on both belts that are impossible to get to the right tension so you end up keeping em a little looser than spec because you've heard horror stories about too-tight belts breaking and engines blowing up. Ohhhhh, and don't forget the tension has to be measured on each cylinder at TDC and while they give you positioning marks for changing the belts they don't give you marks for TDC to tension them

It really is a High Class Sorta Girl , Wayyy to much Mantaniance and money for the Pleasure 

Man Terry, I hope the sex is really good!   

It better be! Can you say high maintenance?

The sound is enough to make a grown man cry, it really is a mean sounding bike.  And seriously, what other company offers an 'entry level' bike with Brembo calipers, rotors, master cylinders and wheels??  MV Agusta???  yeah those don't require shaZam!-tons of maintenance

lol  Just yanking your chain.   

The shortened holeshot on my SV is wickedly loud too.  It was rattling the walls of my storage unit, the units to either side, and giving me an earache.  Nothing like the sound of a twin.      

  Yeah, nothing quite like a twin with a mean exhaust. 

Quote from: GeeP on April 03, 2008, 08:54:21 AM
lol  Just yanking your chain.   

The shortened holeshot on my SV is wickedly loud too.  It was rattling the walls of my storage unit, the units to either side, and giving me an earache.  Nothing like the sound of a twin.      

So I take it you got it running?

Well, I can't say purring like a kitten, more like thumping like a...  NEVERMIND!  But yeah, it's running.  It has a nice, slightly lumpy idle, very Ducatiesque.  Definately a sign of character.   

I'll try to take a video tonight.   

Quote from: GeeP on April 03, 2008, 09:57:56 AM
I'll try to take a video tonight.   

That would be much appreciated! I would love to hear how that shorty can sounds.

Not to hijack the thread but I heard a Monster go by the other day (usually I'm in a car with the windows up or have a helmet on or they are parked) and was with my hubby and pointed and said "Oh hey look! ... WHAT IS THAT NOISE???!!! The infamous dry clutch was the response. But I could get used to it!

I love the trellis frame on both the Ducs and the SVs. 

damn you, now youll get terry started again 

Excellent choice for a new-to-you bike, and that one's sex on wheels! 

So...where's the audio...where's the vid!? 

if the SV is such a good bike how, come i hardly ever see em around on the street? i've only seen one in the past couple of years. and it was an sv1000   

terry why $40 for a gallon of oil, pr perhaps where is it purchased from. oil is oil. its been proven many times over

Quote from: GeeP on March 29, 2008, 07:06:14 PM


I told the SV not to molest the GS in my absence:

ohhhh theyll molest each otehr and give birth to a harley 

Quote from: pandy on April 09, 2008, 08:52:36 PM
Excellent choice for a new-to-you bike, and that one's sex on wheels! 

So...where's the audio...where's the vid!? 

Sheesh lady, I'm working on it!  Peoples around here got jobs, and lives ya know?   

Actually, I still have a sensor or fuel pressure problem.  I'm waiting for the new gauge cluster to arrive so I can read the computer codes.  It runs right now, but it's blubberingly rich.  Once I get it dialed in I'll upload a vid.