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/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl General Category >> The Cafe >> Cycle magazine - August 86 review /cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1462992497 Message started by HovisPresley on 05/11/16 at 11:48:17 |
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Title: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by HovisPresley on 05/11/16 at 11:48:17 Thought I'd share this, as it's interesting reading :) http://i65.tinypic.com/bds58h.jpg http://i68.tinypic.com/m92gs3.jpg http://i65.tinypic.com/1zv7jhe.jpg http://i65.tinypic.com/2qwog9i.jpg http://i67.tinypic.com/1ihddu.jpg http://i65.tinypic.com/2hwo1tj.jpg |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by Serowbot on 05/11/16 at 12:17:48 Neat article,... I've never seen that one. Thanks for positing 8-) |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by KennyG on 05/11/16 at 14:31:16 From reading the article would anyone have thought it would still be around 30 years later? Kenny G |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by justin_o_guy2 on 05/11/16 at 16:02:27 My 2005 didn't feel like any 6.08 second zero to sixty... |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by pg on 05/11/16 at 16:36:24 I thought the Savage as opposed to the s40 had buck horn handlebars. Evidently that is not correct, can someone elaborate? Best regards, |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by verslagen1 on 05/11/16 at 16:58:18 originally, it was an option, buckhorns or drag bar. in the oem fishe you see LS650F or P |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by Kris01 on 05/11/16 at 21:13:17 That's been around a while. You can find a copy here as well: http://savageriders.com/ |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by Kris01 on 05/11/16 at 21:14:58 Including this cool ad. http://savageriders.com/Image3.jpg |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by pg on 05/13/16 at 04:27:29 7F6C7B7A65686E6C6738090 wrote:
Nice, thanks for clarifying. Best regards, |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by justin_o_guy2 on 05/13/16 at 08:48:40 Had stock buckhorns on a Kawasaki 750. I couldn't hardly pick it up. Replaced with some nearly flat bars, easy to pick up. And much more fun to ride. |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by Dave on 05/13/16 at 08:58:23 The bike was a bit dated when it was first developed.....even more so now that 30 years has gone by. It is a "basic" bike in a lot of ways, and that is the charm for a lot of us. I would be nice if Suzuki could just do a little work and improve the cam chain tensioner, head plug, and add a modern speedometer that had a trip meter. |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by old.indian on 05/13/16 at 09:42:32 4C777A6D7C706B6D767E736C1F0 wrote:
A tachometer would be nice too.... :) |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by justin_o_guy2 on 05/13/16 at 15:30:24 When I got past break in and started messing with it, I thought I needed a tach. By the time I got done shopping I had ridden it hard enough to realize that the bike told me when to change gears. I could run through the gears from second to fifth, up or down, without the clutch, nothing but the feel and sound of the engine for a guide,, It's like riding a drunken rubber cow through some sweepers, but a peg dragging monster through some corners. I wouldn't have had time to pick the gear based on a tach going into a corner. It's about the sound and feel and experience with a corner. You'll get as much value from installing a dome light. I drove 18wheelers that didn't have a tach. Clutchless shifting wasn't too hard, I used the oil pressure gauge. |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by jcstokes on 05/13/16 at 15:49:17 Seems people forget it's very much an entry level to the more expensive Suzuki cruisers, or a learners bike. I'm sure Suzuki would be eternally grateful if people dumped them within a year and up scaled to something more powerful and possibly profitable for Suzuki. Suzuki's marketing department just didn't factor in the number of low income forty to seventy year old males out there. |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by Paladin. on 05/14/16 at 00:29:33 4E69706F75567463756A637F060 wrote:
457C677D3E3F0E0 wrote:
I have the magazine and scanned the pages in January 2013. You can see that the posted pictures are of my originals, shrunk a bit. I kept the magazine not for the Savage, but for the Honda 200 -- I bought the first one sold in the LA South Bay. Hovis -- if those pictures are on a commercial page they owe me for my copyright. |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by HovisPresley on 05/14/16 at 08:26:31 "Hovis -- if those pictures are on a commercial page they owe me for my copyright." ..................................................... Ah, okay, :-[ PM me with your bank details, and I'll issue you with a cheque from my Nigerian account. |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by HovisPresley on 05/14/16 at 08:49:55 http://i66.tinypic.com/20ud7xs.jpg http://i67.tinypic.com/veox7n.jpg http://i66.tinypic.com/kaws2.jpg http://i63.tinypic.com/mhbtso.jpg http://i65.tinypic.com/5orz1c.jpg http://i68.tinypic.com/207kyt4.jpg |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by jcstokes on 05/14/16 at 15:17:39 I wonder how Donna would have felt after a hundred miles on that pillion seat. |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by HovisPresley on 05/14/16 at 16:13:40 282131362D292731420 wrote:
Donna's kebab would've had very tender meat, if a little greasy... |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by Kris01 on 05/14/16 at 20:14:37 I can't believe I get all this bike for just $2299. What are they now? Around 6 grand I think. :-/ |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by DesertRat on 05/14/16 at 20:23:08 they had the same complaints I read on this board ... AWESOME ... just goes to show that Suzuki like the majority of companies could care less about what the customers want ... they haven't listened for over 30 years ... WTF??? >:( |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by Art Webb on 05/15/16 at 08:38:11 6A6373746F6B6573000 wrote:
probably agree to bed if you just! let her off! that terrible seat! ;D |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by HovisPresley on 05/15/16 at 09:03:56 Mounting the pillion foot-pegs on the swinging-arm wasn't one of Suzuki's better ideas, either... |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by justin_o_guy2 on 05/15/16 at 10:01:37 The ever changing peg position helps distract the prisoner from their aching butt cheeks. |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by DesertRat on 05/15/16 at 13:12:27 584741465B5C6D5D6D55474B00320 wrote:
DUCT tape helps too ... :D http://https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e7/1c/3f/e71c3fa2e510b186a488551b847ddd2c.jpg |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by Kris01 on 05/15/16 at 14:10:04 That's just sick and wrong... and funny! ;D |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by justin_o_guy2 on 05/15/16 at 18:07:04 And, something to keep in the tool pouch. |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by Art Webb on 05/16/16 at 08:36:31 0F2E382E393F192A3F4B0 wrote:
DUCT tape helps too ... :D http://https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e7/1c/3f/e71c3fa2e510b186a488551b847ddd2c.jpg[/quote] Duck and cover boys! that post will bring the turrible wrath of the Humorless Women's Collective down upon us! they will send mean tweets and call us mysogynists! Oh the Horror! :o :-X |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by verslagen1 on 05/16/16 at 09:13:16 6F7C7A796B6C6C0E0 wrote:
DUCT tape helps too ... :D http://https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e7/1c/3f/e71c3fa2e510b186a488551b847ddd2c.jpg[/quote] Duck and cover boys! that post will bring the turrible wrath of the Humorless Women's Collective down upon us! they will send mean tweets and call us mysogynists! Oh the Horror! :o :-X[/quote] Why are YOU being sexist? This is supposed to be a girls bike remember. There is equal opportunity for a guy to be on the back. |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by justin_o_guy2 on 05/16/16 at 14:02:09 Need a new sign, then. Turning Yes, Yes, Yes Into Mmph, Mmph, mmph.. |
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Title: Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Post by Art Webb on 05/17/16 at 07:53:18 Right, then it's not a rape joke sorta looses it's edginess though of course, it's really only the Humorless Women's Collective who's offended, most ladies I know at least crack a smile at it |
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