Suzuki SV650

We have another classic V-twin that is coming back after being absent, at least from some markets.

That is the Suzuki SV650.

Still available here in the U.S. this year, but...

We have discovered that the 2027 version will be using the same engine as the SV7GX, which Troy, you recently tested.

The transmission gears themselves, second through sixth gear, are slightly different the way they've been machined.

The actual gear ratios are the same.

And then the charging system for the SV7 GX pumps out a little bit more power than the SV650.

So engine-wise...

I'll say this.

If, you know, if you're interested in going to the track as an older person, it's, You know, I started on a SV650.

I should have started on a Ninja 300 or 400 because I went from a SV650, you know, 60, 70 horsepower, went up to an R6, went to a built motor R6, and then went down to some KTMs, RC390s to learn how to ride.

Because... you know and you know some people may debate about how fast a middleweight bike is versus a thousand or whatever but on a track a middleweight bike is very fast uh and and and you know so which it not to say i couldn't have learned the techniques but it's just going to take me longer where like on if i would have started on going to the small bike that allowed me to work on body position it allowed me to to adjust my braking marker because also as a as a newbie As much as they tell you to brake later, I was on autopilot.

I was still braking the same places, even though I wanted to.

they were and so like basically i think the rsx again probably one of the last generations of kind of golden era technology in a in a civic sized car yeah that has that much uh you know v tech so that one

gets massive respect for me all right next up Next up, SV650.

All right.

This is a good bike.

So the question is, the normal question is, what's your favorite bike? And I could tell you, we could ask this question each, couldn't we? So I'm going to say to you, what's your favorite

bike? A Suzuki SV650.

OK.

And you can ask me.

So I actually have two bikes.

I did let the third one go recently, but I have an SV650, which is the exact same motorbike I actually sat my test on.

I bought it directly from the bike school.

Okay.

Suzuki's SV-7GX.

Got all that? Turns the old SV650 V-Twin into some sort of priced middleweight tour.

We've got the SV650, the beloved V-Strom, that V-Twin.

Sticks it in an upright fairing with a tank of some size of liters and modern electronics, et cetera, and so on.

The UK tests list 211 kilograms wet, 450, something like that, a 795 millimeter seat height and a 6,999 pounds or whatever they have over there starting price.

It feels like temperature down here is 104.

I wanted to try to beat the heat and it is International Maggie's Bike Maintenance Day.

First thing I did was I installed her SW Motec top case rack for the GV luggage, which does not play nice with the SV650's tail tidy, whoever made the one that's on there.