Recent content by urca

Deal isn't bad. Be extremely, extremely cautious when you try to learn. This bike is not a 250 or a dirtbike, you only need to move the throttle a centimeter to have it begin taking off, and it will slide out from under you if you give it too much or get just a little too excited going into...

St. Patrick's day here the cops had a roadblock set up coming into town, one of them(I presume a fellow rider) walked back through the line of cars to me sitting on my bike - said "hey man, open your visor and touch your nose for me and if you do it on the first try without looking like an idiot...

Problem is, most bikes have been dropped at least once in the driveway or in the garage. That's the thing OP, the rarity is a bike that has never been dropped. It's very, very common to drop a bike at least once. This bike, however, slid on the ground. It looks like the guy's rear tire...

Jeeze, did this entire thread get clipped or something? I was thankful for all the responses, but yeah, I guess this isn't an SV650 forum after all, huh guys? :p Good to know that the engine is so stable, that seems foreign to me for some reason - like such a precision piece of machinery would...

Just out of curiosity, I've always wondered when I hear(or read) about people dropping their bikes, are they 'getting lucky' when the bike starts back up again? Or is there really nothing that can go wrong as long as it was at 0mph and the engine cutoff worked via the tip-over sensor? Like...