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Title: Savage Sightings in your area Post by Tocsik on 10/14/14 at 17:36:53 I didn't see this particular thread on this site. I get a kick when I see another LS650/Savage/S40 in my area and, since I saw one today, I thought I would start off. This is a cool topic that's used on a scooter forum where I hang out. 10/14/14, around 4 p.m. White S40 on Sheridan Parkway in ~Westminster, CO near HWY 7. Looked to be a femalian rider in full gear. We tossed the wave to each other. I was on the black S40 with black saddlebags, wearing a black helmet and black T-shirt. (I'll stop wearing black when they make a darker color). You on this forum? |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by thumperclone on 10/14/14 at 17:39:19 wasn't me im on a red 06 on the west slope and am male :D |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by Kris01 on 10/14/14 at 18:04:12 Only other one that I've ever seen was parked at Auto Zone a few months ago. Didn't have time to stop and chat. |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by oldNslow on 10/14/14 at 18:48:53 I've seen two. Both of them brand new 2013 models sittin' in the showroom of a dealer near me. Only one I've ever seen on the road around here is mine. ('06) |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by Steve H on 10/14/14 at 19:44:12 I've passed 3 or 4 different ones around here. There's a guy right down the street from me that owns one. |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by old_rider on 10/14/14 at 20:14:37 Spotted one in panama city beach area at the taco bell on 98.... on my way back home (1 hour west). |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by stewmills on 10/14/14 at 20:34:55 had mine for 2 1/2 years and haven't seen another one here since then...not even at the power sports shop here that is a suzuki dealer. i have a monopoly on this town. ;D ;D ;D |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by verslagen1 on 10/14/14 at 20:40:51 I see a few... one on route 66 and I've passed a few on the superslab. one of these days I'm gonna have to slow down ;D and those are the ones that aren't on here. |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by Serowbot on 10/14/14 at 22:09:37 I see 1 or 2 a month... ...if they want to chat,.. I might mention this site... ...but,... I always wonder, if they might have already been here... and I have already given them some bad advice... :-/... ...I mean,.. nobody's perfect... I try my best... :-?... |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by gizzo on 10/14/14 at 23:08:23 Not here. I think they keep them locked up with the rocking horse turds and hen's teeth. Only available for 1 year (1986) in Oz and not even popular back then ::). |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by Jeff71 on 10/14/14 at 23:22:29 I've only ever seen 2 plus the one I bought. The 2 I saw were SW Michigan and Just across the Michigan/ Indiana border. The local bike shop didn't even have one. Jeff |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by jcstokes on 10/14/14 at 23:27:09 Poor Gizzo, come across the ditch and buy one new for $AUD 7875 approx. Used 2006-8's $5400 AUD approx. Shipping it back and rego, your "challenge, problem, issue". I see a few now and again, but here many seem to regard them as a learner bike and quickly want to step up to bigger and brighter. We have our share of people supercharging, bobbing, there is a firm in Auckland doing this, the very occasional Ryca, one for sale on www.trademe.co.nz now. We get our share of quite low mileage second hand as well. Perhaps the "cool" people realise they're for fifty to eighty year old male riders |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by stinger on 10/15/14 at 01:33:11 A few weeks ago I was sitting on my bike in my friends driveway chatting and this fella pulled up on his new 650. Apparently he has had dirt bikes before and this was his first road bike and longest ride was maybe 50 miles round trip. Invited him to ride with us. a couple of days later and I think we wore him out. Left around 11am and by dark we had covered a little more than 300 miles. A bit much for him on his first real ride since most of it was on twisty roads. Our next ride was more fun but still a 300 mile round trip. rode to the Oregon coast on a beautiful day and had lunch and then rode up to Astoria and across this mile long bridge into Washington and then rode this great road where you could go 55 to 65 mph for a hundred miles with long swooping curves and not one stop light. Took a ferry across the Columbia river back into Oregon and then rode home. Other than Savage Greg and his wife Julie who both owned Savages he was the first rider I have met with a 650. A good friend now and he will be a new member into this site. |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by GBG on 10/15/14 at 06:23:58 The friend I bought mine from has seen an identical bike in the area. She always thinks it's me until she remembers that I pulled the badges off the tank, and that we wear different color helmets. I've yet to come across another. |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by Jeff71 on 10/15/14 at 07:57:12 Pretty amazing for being such a popular bike. I guess people just take them out for quick jaunts or ride it, get something else, keep it in the garage. That's what mine was. Jeff |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by Dave on 10/15/14 at 08:10:31 795655550402330 wrote:
Nobody ever said that this was a popular bike, or that there are many of them sold. Most dealers don't even want to have one on the showroom - it is hard to sell to the masses. Sure it has some charm - but that is not what most folks are looking for in a motorcycle. |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by Jeff71 on 10/15/14 at 08:56:06 Then why do they keep making it? :) Jeff |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by Serowbot on 10/15/14 at 08:57:31 We're blackmailing them... |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by verslagen1 on 10/15/14 at 09:28:46 Who's got the latest engine number? 392A3D3C232E282A217E4F0 wrote:
From this there could be 43,000 bikes made from '87 to '02. I'm guessing that the p401 prefix is exclusive to the savage, but may include its baby brother the 400. Anyone got some later engine numbers? |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by Dave on 10/15/14 at 09:46:05 I bought a 2006 engine from Pinwall that is P401-169316. |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by Steve H on 10/15/14 at 16:09:41 It's a reliable low volume seller. It helps get people on a bike and Suzuki hopes it makes them want a bigger even more profit bike. They should be making a killing on these bikes. All the R&D was done in the 80's most of the molds were made around then too. The frame jigs are all old...in short they should have recouped all development costs years ago. Most of the original engineers that designed it have probably retired. And, there is always a small market for people that want a single. And, they are alone in that they have a cruiser that is a single. |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by Kris01 on 10/15/14 at 16:35:49 342730312E2325272C73420 wrote:
2008: P401-175153 |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by youzguyz on 10/16/14 at 08:29:50 Saw one on the road in San Antonio a couple years back. Saw another (RYCA) parked in Boerne a year ago or so. That's it. And I ride a LOT, and go to "biker bars" for my "heading home" barley soda. Then again, most of my riding is on roads where I don't see many other motorcycles.. at all. |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by Dave on 10/16/14 at 09:02:48 I know of a few in the Cincinnati area. One belongs to a member here named Jay, another one is a black bike that is obviously stored outside and ridden hard, one belongs to a woman that I saw last year at a group ride and she has a pink helmet with red ponytails stuck on it, and another one is yellow and the owner has put clip-ons for handlebars. I have also seen a couple more out on the highway. So....in 3 years I have bumped into about 6 bikes (other than Sjaskow's and mine). |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by sjaskow - FSO on 10/16/14 at 09:24:41 And other than Dave's, I've only ever seen one. That one was a reddish '86 with a drilled out muffler in traffic 3 or 4 years ago. I've seen more Visions (which isn't that big of a seller either) than I've ever seen S40s. Oh, and I think the reason the Suzuki keeps making them is the overseas market. Don't forget that there are places like the UK where motorcycle licenses are graduated and the S40 comes in under the HP level for the beginners license there. |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by kimchris1 on 10/19/14 at 11:21:23 I'm the only owner of a S-40 in my area that I know of. Stinger, DJ midnite and John from the forum here did a meet and ride about 3 years ago. I saw one parked in Seattle couple years ago. Traffic prevented me from turning back to see if I could locate the owner. Guess in my neighborhood, I am the only smart owner.. ;D ;D ;D Kim & Genie |
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Title: Re: Savage Sightings in your area Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/19/14 at 12:15:59 I wish I had found this place before I bought. Because of my inexperience in maintaining a bike,in spite of an extensive background in basic mechanical stuff, I was intimidated by the idea of doing basic stuff,like valve adjustment,cam chain,so,I bought new. I wish Old Feller would have created his air filter before I wasted the$$$on that blasted KandN.. what an expensive hassle that was.. How extensive,you might ask? I had been doing my own vehicle maintenance for over 30 years,changed the Frame on 2 F150's,done brakes,on everything from little cars to 18wheelers, worked on oil field pumps driven by 16cylinder engines,, high pressure,high volume,,Big stuff that has to be put together right and tight.. I had replaced clutches in things from 1/2 ton trucks to pulling units and sideline trucks to 18 wheelers.. I've repaired copiers and cash registers, even split a John Deere tractor and replaced the clutch,Alone, on an uneven dirt floor,, BUT, I was intimidated by a motorcycle.. I coulda saved a TON of $$$$ if I had found this place before I bought Bull.. Short for Boulevard.. |
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