2013 Suzuki SFV650 - the Gladius returns & renamed - Page 3

bobobob · 09-27-2012, 06:45 PM

Forget the hideous 650 rice burners.
Think different.
2013 Moto Goosey V7s.

EastBoundAndDown · 09-27-2012, 09:39 PM

Curious about the dry weight and wheel HP. The Naked SV was about 365dry, 70HP but had 4.25 and 4.5 gal tanks.

ZZ-R Rider · 09-28-2012, 03:53 AM

YES, YES and YES!!! This ticks off ALL the blocks on my "hockey card checklist" for motorcycles ... major moto-lust!! Doesn't get any more beautiful and perfect for me than a blacked-out Guzzi Stone!!

kraven · 09-28-2012, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by ZZ-R Rider

YES, YES and YES!!! This ticks off ALL the blocks on my "hockey card checklist" for motorcycles ... major moto-lust!! Doesn't get any more beautiful and perfect for me than a blacked-out Guzzi Stone!!

I really like this bike too.

And I will admit to an anti-Guzzi bias that runs quite strongly in my brain and heart.

forrestlaw · 09-28-2012, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ZZ-R Rider

YES, YES and YES!!! This ticks off ALL the blocks on my "hockey card checklist" for motorcycles ... major moto-lust!! Doesn't get any more beautiful and perfect for me than a blacked-out Guzzi Stone!!

I really like the late model v7s as well. My next bike will likely be a v7 or a bonnie

eakins · 09-28-2012, 09:27 PM

sweetness

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Originally Posted by ZZ-R Rider

YES, YES and YES!!! This ticks off ALL the blocks on my "hockey card checklist" for motorcycles ... major moto-lust!! Doesn't get any more beautiful and perfect for me than a blacked-out Guzzi Stone!!

acap650 · 09-29-2012, 02:28 PM

I can't for the life of me understand why Suzuki abandoned the SV650 brand. I guess SFV650 is closeer than Gladius but what's wrong with SV? It has been one of the most successful street/sport bikes worldwide. Why not continue upgrading and improving a known brand? After owning two gen 1 SVs, an S and a naked as well as a Wee, you could say I'm a big fan of the 650 V engine, perhaps the ideal (affordable) street engine.

Klay · 09-29-2012, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Grainbelt

Big green has a 650 for you.

No V-twin feel.

mminob · 09-29-2012, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Klay

No V-twin feel.

My 2005 V Strom 650 , after 25,000 hard miles , was starting to sound kinda dull on the stock muffler , so I put a Holeshot Slip on pipe ...man...the best sound on a bike is a 90 degree V twin ...like a Ducati ...

But then I got a 2009 Kawaski 650 Versys ...Parallel Twin...and after 25,000 miles , with a Yoshimura Pipe..the engine does'nt sound as sweet when twisting the loud handle

my next bike will be a 2013 Suzuki Wee Strom 650 with custom twin pipes , carbon fiber music makers...Braaaaap... Or...Please Suzuki Please...take this brilliant 650 V Twin motor and build a Supermoto style urban assault weapon ...Yeah thats what I would buy... SV 650 SM ....17 " wheels , and a good upside down fork with dual disks , a small fly screen , and a headlight that looks normal , Please...Hmmm . something like a Aprillia Dorsodura 750 but Japanese, you know , cheap to own...

AviatorTroy · 09-29-2012, 07:06 PM

Yea I'll keep my '99 thanks.

rivercreep · 09-29-2012, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by ZZ-R Rider

I'm personally waiting for Suzuki to produce a TU650X with the LS650 motor in it ... especially now that the Savage/S40 has been equipped with EFI for 2013!!! Wow, never thought I'd see that and totally believed that 2012 would have been the last year for the beloved LS ...

I'm thinking you're confusing the savage and TU in regards to FI on the savage (S-40) as just looked at the sight and it shows a mikuni 40 carb under its specs.

I actually wish you were right and they'd give us that engine in a TU650 (or better yet a DR650 FI engine in the TU styled bike)

As for the Gladius minus the stupid name = too swoopy and looks like a dildo, and that tank size has to be increased to at least 5 gallons for real riders.

My vote is for the old style SV as well.

EdM · 09-30-2012, 05:34 AM

Rivercreep:

I believe Suzuki has changed the spec sheet. When I first saw the reference to FI for the S40 I checked the website and the specs did show "suzuki fuel injection" but now, as you have noted, that has been changed.

Might explain why FI was not mentioned in the "features" portion of the description.

Ned

rivercreep · 09-30-2012, 06:29 AM

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Originally Posted by EdM

Rivercreep:

I believe Suzuki has changed the spec sheet. When I first saw the reference to FI for the S40 I checked the website and the specs did show "suzuki fuel injection" but now, as you have noted, that has been changed.

Might explain why FI was not mentioned in the "features" portion of the description.

Ned

..and the lack of it really SUCKS in a way.
Air or Air/Oil cooling combined with NikaSil plating, sure seems like it would be the best of two worlds.

Cortez · 10-02-2012, 02:10 AM

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Originally Posted by ph0rk

Too much plastic on it :(

I want a cheap, light, midsized "roadster", dammit! (with ABS, of course. and options for luggage and a tall screen). So many "almosts".

NC700S:

ER6n:

In that order, IMHO.

Grainbelt · 10-02-2012, 08:51 AM

Neither of those are sold in the US, Cortez. We get the NC700X (ABS only available on DCT) but not the NC700S. And we get the Ninja 650 (and finally ABS this year!) but not the ER-6N.

09-27-2012, 06:45 PM	#31
bobobob badbadbad Joined: Feb 2011 Location: On a hill Oddometer: 4,234	Forget the hideous 650 rice burners. Think different. 2013 Moto Goosey V7s. __________________ . It is just a bunch of inner tubes Roy . . . - Cannonshot Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional. - Haroon

09-27-2012, 09:39 PM	#32
EastBoundAndDown Gnarly Adventurer Joined: Aug 2010 Location: Walden, NY Oddometer: 397	Curious about the dry weight and wheel HP. The Naked SV was about 365dry, 70HP but had 4.25 and 4.5 gal tanks. __________________ "And if my thought-dreams could been seen They'd probably put my head in a guillotine But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only." KTM200, DR350SE, SV650

09-28-2012, 03:53 AM	#33
ZZ-R Rider Gnarly Adventurer Joined: Jun 2011 Location: Hanger 18 Oddometer: 174	YES, YES and YES!!! This ticks off ALL the blocks on my "hockey card checklist" for motorcycles ... major moto-lust!! Doesn't get any more beautiful and perfect for me than a blacked-out Guzzi Stone!! __________________ Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by arseholes ...

09-29-2012, 02:28 PM	#37
acap650 acap650 Joined: Apr 2006 Location: Western PA Oddometer: 354	SV vs SFV I can't for the life of me understand why Suzuki abandoned the SV650 brand. I guess SFV650 is closeer than Gladius but what's wrong with SV? It has been one of the most successful street/sport bikes worldwide. Why not continue upgrading and improving a known brand? After owning two gen 1 SVs, an S and a naked as well as a Wee, you could say I'm a big fan of the 650 V engine, perhaps the ideal (affordable) street engine.

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09-29-2012, 07:06 PM	#40
AviatorTroy Beastly Adventurer Joined: Oct 2007 Location: Cincinnati OH/Stuart FL Oddometer: 1,203	Yea I'll keep my '99 thanks.

09-30-2012, 05:34 AM	#42
EdM Gnarly Adventurer Joined: Jul 2006 Location: Dover, DE Oddometer: 260	Rivercreep: I believe Suzuki has changed the spec sheet. When I first saw the reference to FI for the S40 I checked the website and the specs did show "suzuki fuel injection" but now, as you have noted, that has been changed. Might explain why FI was not mentioned in the "features" portion of the description. Ned

10-02-2012, 08:51 AM	#45
Grainbelt marginal adventurer Joined: Feb 2006 Location: Minnyhappiness Oddometer: 25,007	Neither of those are sold in the US, Cortez. We get the NC700X (ABS only available on DCT) but not the NC700S. And we get the Ninja 650 (and finally ABS this year!) but not the ER-6N.