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Title: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/05/19 at 13:50:35 New member, from Sweden! I like to present my self at first. Im a 63 years old former biker.. 20 years ago at least! Anyway.. I bout me a Suzuki savage! And all I know about this bike is from this forum. Its a 2000 made, but it has only gone 8370 kilometers (5200 miles?) It looks like almoste brand new.. exept that former owners put on some extras, like Leo Vince k02 silvertal exhauste, leather bags and some other leather on the fueltank. Ther are som extra leather grips for the handels that nor the former owner or I would put on! |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Serowbot on 08/05/19 at 14:03:42 Welcome Zepp! Hope you find the site helpful and fun. Enjoy the ride!... 8-) |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/05/19 at 14:58:10 3523342931242932460 wrote:
As I sayd.. im learned most about this bike on this forum! Soon I would present som pictures on the bike if I only learn how to do it, IE how to get pictures from my PC to this forum. Anyway.. I have figure out that Leovince is an European (Italian) brand.. for exhaust systems.. is there in USA? Im got the original exhaust anyway, but the slip on Leovince looks nicer. :) And as it was a 2000 made, I put on new tires.. figure out that there was a lot of rubber on the tires that make it go thru the anual safe regular inspection, but I saw a lot of smal dry crackings at the rim.. soo now i have brand new tires and got an uppgrade from 140 to 150 on the backtire.. there is no more 140 tires.. I dont bother or if the wider backtire the better.. at least if one dont need to do a lot of work! Soo to the riding.. IE it was at least 20 years ago, it was a little adwark att the begining.. one have to be customiced whit riding a bike again and the frontset fotpegs. Im still a fotbreaker, im strugle to use the handbrake and the throttle handle at the same time.. it goes better and better every new time! I know all this as a former biker, its almoste about to get it as a habit! |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by verslagen1 on 08/05/19 at 15:18:01 how to.. http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1347074669 |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Serowbot on 08/05/19 at 16:46:04 Back brake is not very good on these bikes. Work on your front brake skills. A lot safer. 8-) |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/06/19 at 09:42:38 Yeah.. i know that.. and its not only on this bike, it goes for almoste any bike that not got ABS and multiple braking system! The foot braking is a car habit, one have to be used to riding a bike. Anyway, this was a trial for getting A-licens (bike licens) in Sweden. One hade to go about 50 km/an hour and and then brake/stop before the cones! Soo I got both A and B licens at that time. |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/06/19 at 09:46:40 Now I should try to put a picture of my bike here! [https://web2.storegate.com/photos?view=baa74a70-0136-4ab6-bd20-550d463b81c5][/img] |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/06/19 at 09:56:54 And now im going to try my facebook acount! http://https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/60700222_2248719475444393_3022306033075748864_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_oc=AQn8VD2z9AsfYJB1CvDz4qzG87XLumQbEF7eU0KAlaJuCdqGMDvGuYo9jTX0CHJIJj8&_nc_ht=scontent-arn2-1.xx&oh=afad62c8442fc6af02cfa379e843d3ee&oe=5DE9D61A |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by verslagen1 on 08/06/19 at 09:58:21 https://web2.storegate.com/photos?view=baa74a70-0136-4ab6-bd20-550d463b81c5 I tried putting the link in the URL and it wouldn't bring up the picture. So, something wrong with the address. |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by justin_o_guy2 on 08/06/19 at 11:10:32 Excellent use of the space below the headlight. |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/06/19 at 11:28:20 243B3D3A2720112111293B377C4E0 wrote:
Its probly becuse that Storgate is my bacup in the cloud, one probably need to be logged in as mee to look att the picture? |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/06/19 at 11:32:00 56697C7C0C0 wrote:
Its probly becuse that Storgate is my bacup in the cloud, one probably need to be logged in as mee to look att the picture?[/quote] |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/06/19 at 11:43:25 7F405555250 wrote:
Double answers. In any case, the former owners put on a leather tool bag on the front fork, it probly comes whit the sadle bags and the leather on the gas tank? I have thougt about if it could disturb the airflow for cooling but it looks quite nice and custom like and over the airflow? |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by stewmills on 08/06/19 at 11:52:11 56697C7C0C0 wrote:
Fork bag will not hurt/affect cooling. I have had one on my bike for 7 years and never had a cooling issue. Heck, if they did no one would be buying them.... |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/06/19 at 13:03:25 Yeah, there are a lot of airflow anyway.. often too much if one take a fast grip on the gas handel. Soo it was the head light that got hot, and then I learned that there was a another way to put on the light to be on but only as a daytime runing lamp! Its like going to school again! Anyway your bike looks great on that picture! It seems that you got extra fotpegs on your bike and a windshield, im just converting to frontpegs from down under fotpegs! I still want to lean forward but Im get more customised to lean more bakward to set my boots forward! And I still use footbraking,, but I can tell you thats no problem becuse I dont drive that fast. But I still need to get ride of that. |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by LANCER on 08/06/19 at 15:46:42 Welcome to the site Zepp ! Ride safe [ch128526][ch127949][ch128521] |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by MMRanch on 08/06/19 at 16:22:46 Welcome Zepp ! :) You have picked a Really Great Machine to start your renewed ridding adventure on. I've got almost 50,000 miles on mine and like it even more now than when it was newer. I was reading about the Braking issue : I only use my back brake for low-speed parking lot stuff , I've never known of a motorcycle back brake to be any good for anything but maneuvering . Besides , that back tire will wear out twice as fast as the front tire even if you never ask it to help ya stop . ;) Welcome to our site ! |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/08/19 at 11:25:49 You should only know that is you guys/gals on this site to make me a big Thumper!. Anyway, I hope that I can get som more pictures on my bike here att first? https://postimg.cc/ZBgdqgfr Is this working |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/08/19 at 11:28:27 It did work to klick on anyway! But I want it to show up? |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/08/19 at 11:36:35 I try another one; https://i.postimg.cc/2yHdJ9xj/IMG-20190808-183359.jpg |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/08/19 at 11:37:48 WTF, why cant it show up? |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/08/19 at 11:43:24 Tryes another thing; http://https://i.postimg.cc/2yHdJ9xj/IMG-20190808-183359.jpg |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/08/19 at 11:47:46 Awsome.. its working! Soo, this is the leather on the gastank.. I probaly wouldnt buy it myself but I let it stay its probably a kit that comes with the leather bags? |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/08/19 at 11:50:51 And there are more to that! An Eagle on the head lamp. https://i.postimg.cc/d0dB1BJn/IMG-20190808-183422.jpg |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/08/19 at 11:52:36 WTF; http://https://i.postimg.cc/d0dB1BJn/IMG-20190808-183422.jpg |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/08/19 at 11:54:57 And the the leather fork bag! http://https://i.postimg.cc/7YWMnc6m/IMG-20190808-183610.jpg |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/08/19 at 11:58:23 And anohter overall picture, http://https://i.postimg.cc/Kjcr0hBs/IMG-20190518-164206.jpg |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/08/19 at 13:11:59 The motorguard is a bit small. http://https://i.postimg.cc/QNSqHVrL/IMG-20190808-183230.jpg |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/08/19 at 13:13:40 But it looks nice anyway, and I dont have any intentions go of the road! |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/08/19 at 13:18:41 Now I have som questions for you that are more experiance! The seller told mee that there is some swettings about the head gasket!! I think/thougt, they never done the first sevice? Any thougts about this? http://https://i.postimg.cc/W1x8TKch/IMG-20190808-183648.jpg |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/08/19 at 13:19:21 http://https://i.postimg.cc/KvqQsj97/IMG-20190808-183708.jpg |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by MMRanch on 08/09/19 at 06:18:36 Zepp I spray engine cleaner in/on/around the fins on my bikes' head then hose it off with water a few minutes later. It works just fine for keeping things looking nice. You have a very nice looking bike , that eagle . bags and tank bib really set it off nicely ! ;) Do ya'll get a lot of good ridding weather in Sweden ? Are your mountains tall enough to be COLD up on top ? Our eastern mountains are high enough to be refreshingly cool in the summer with just a light jacket or big shirt. |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/14/19 at 10:57:41 7C6E7C6E63707F7279310 wrote:
I shall try to spray engin cleaner on the fins and wash moste of, merely to see if it comes more and from where. And to that I dont even know if former owners have done any service at all? I read the manual and about to check the cylinder/head nuts! Anyway some former owner seems to have put more intentions to customise the bike then riding it? And then we comes to riding climate.. I live in the soutwest part of Sweden, Latitudal the same as Minesota.. figure out way Swede Hollow lays around Minapolis/Chicago areas? But I live about the coast soo its probably more like New York? Summer is june, july and august.. and it goes from 15 to 30 degres Celsius, 50-90 Farenheit and it rains a lot some summers! So there ar seldome any need for going up any mounting to have a cooler ride. And this bike that I bout comes frome a more north part of Sweden, about like southern Canada I presume.. east of Nowegian mountains. And that to that.. I still dont know if any former owners have done any service, I have a small oil leak that I presume is from betwen the cylinder and the top. I read the manual and one should check the cylinder bolts every 6000 Km or anual.. or at least any second year. Anyway, I would try to preserv this bike as an 2000 Savage with those 2000 extras that former owners put on it. Im self older and I want it to be my senior bike, soon! I do read a lot here and on other places, Im a workshop mecanics, Im a bit lasy and old, so I have thouts about to do the testing abouot to tigheting of the cilinder to top nuts and the two extras in front and back to get rid of the oil leaking! Anybody that have thougts about the probably oil leak or other sources of oil leak that almoste end up at the left fins are wey welcome! |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden!- Post by MMRanch on 08/14/19 at 20:13:21 Ya , Don't worry about it till winter gets here ! ;) It's ridding time , we call this period the "Dog-Days of Summer" . Here in the American south it's almost to HOT to ride , Almost ! . ::) I took a ride today of about 100 loop , kinda took the long way home . Heck , I try to do a hundred miles every day , but don't always have time and sometimes the weather don't cooperate . But , its enough to keep my seat firmed-up ! ;D I'm trying to wear this tire out before the cold weather of November gets here ! ;) |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 08/25/19 at 07:32:55 Ya, Im not that woryed yet.. or at all! In anyway I put it in a local MC-shop and make them put on new tires and oil/and new oilfilter to be safe! Soo, it still thats Im an old biker, but im loost some and this is a big thumper, I love that, but I still wonder if its okey? I should probaby try some others Savage or let they ride my bike to tell if its running as i should? If anthing.. Its like a new girlfriend.. im still in love of this bike, and now its in my garage! And ts probably like new girlriends, wana know if its the right for me! In anyway its a big thumper, thats what I was aiming for!.. Soo it could that im not used to ride a big thumper? Anybody that have knovledge about to ride a big thumper Savage/Boulevard, that can relew my feelings is very welcome,, becuse Im still new to this bike! |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 09/18/19 at 11:02:34 In anyway.. im still here and living/riding my Savage! Its a bit could here now, not that much riding. So I have come to the conclusion that I would put the bike in my local bike shop for the winter, and let them do a overal inspection! Im still looks here now and then! Soo, what should I ask them to inspect? Its this smal oil leak int the front between the top and the cylinder.. its a disturbant, but not that big matter. At last.. im still in love with this bike, its what I like frome a bike, for my porpuse! |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by MMRanch on 09/18/19 at 20:11:02 Zepp That weeping leak in the head plug area , is really a easy fix. If your handy with tools and mechanical understanding. The top cam cover can be "wiggled" off with out taking the motor out of the frame. I put "Ultra Gray" form=a=gasket on mine and never had a lick of trouble out of it. While the plug is out and the cam cover is off you need to re-tighten the head bolts in the "X" pattern. I don't trust anybody to tinker with my bike but me. I mean , "How do you KNOW what was done and what was billed as being done" ? Then there is the question of what was done right and what was made worse because due to some idiot with a wrench. ! The Savage/S-40 , is so easy to understand and so strait-forward to work on that all it takes to tinker on it is a willing heart. You do have a Shop Manual don't you ? If not don't fear you have us and most of us have the Shop Manual , plus have done most every thing you can think of. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1986-2015-Suzuki-LS650-Savage-Boulevard-S40-Repair-Service-Shop-Manual-M3845/382279085700?fits=Submodel%3AS40%7CMake%3ASuzuki&epid=171184119&hash=item59019bee84:g:ejsAAOSwH3haBdQY |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 09/19/19 at 12:17:29 Thanks at first for your response! And I was supose to spray engin cleaner on the oil leak, but I dont done that! To see where it comes frome. im still think that it comes in the front betweeen the cylinder and the top.. its more to the left side, probably becuse it stand on the stand to the left? Im kind of handy.. at least I was, 30 years ago Then I was a racing mecanic for my´brother that was racing in a amateur leage! In anyway, as a handy man, I got stuck in front of a computer and making tools, for major Swedish carmakers.. mostly truckmakers! In any case.. im kind of have some knowleged about mecanical things/motors/bikes and cars.. but Im 63+, I dont love to do it anymore. Dont got that good seeing anymore.. and I think Im got a bit lasy to that? Soo Im gonna get my local bikeshop a second trial! And I hope that the brother of the owner is that mecanical marvel that fix anything. If not im going to be retierd soon, not next summer but the summer after that. and for the rest of my life! Then I can by mee a manual and do everything my self? And the second topic.. for anyone that have some thoughts, there is Leo Vince K02 silvetail slip on exhaust on my bike, it looks nicer then standard Suzuki exhaust, but it goes blue in the front. That seems to me that it goes to hot.. and then I wonder if the engine goes to hot? And as a handy man/former race mecanics.. wonder if its going to lean? I hope that the mecanical expert could sort this out.. or I should change to the original exhauste if nesesery! To that and as newbie on Savage/Boulevard,, im kind of learning to drive this bike,, lean more backward, then I even can look in the mirrors, drive it as a custom bike, dont think that its a race bike,, its a crappity smacking big thumper, get a good ride and enoy it,, whats the hurry, enjoy the ride! |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by MMRanch on 09/19/19 at 20:11:01 Zepp The standard S-40 Header pipe is double walled and shouldn't ever turn blue. I've got a 12" Shorty on mine and it turns Blue-ish/Brown-ish . But that is because I have a DB-Killer in "Both Ends" of it. It does make it Quiet ... almost as quiet as the factory muffler. ;) |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 10/06/19 at 07:45:56 Thanks again for your response! And you should know, anybody in this forum is the only one that I can ask queations about Savage/S40! The original header pipe is on, its light yellow, very light yellow! Its the front part of the Leovince K02 Silvertal slip on that is dark blue! Im probably a bit to anxetety.. about my new bike? In anyway.. im still in love whit it and Im seems to learn to how ride it, im get use to lean back, then I can even look backward thru the mirrors! In any case.. the brother of the shopowner that supose to be a mechanical expert.. im gonna try him! In anyway, this is the part that get blue;https://postimg.cc/sQ1WsyJj |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by stewmills on 10/06/19 at 08:53:18 That blue spot is probably where the inner muffler baffles start to back up the heat or where a catalytic converter is in the muffler doing the same. Likely from the bike running slightly lean but some mufflers are just prone to this. Here is my Harley muffler on my bike after a 90 mile highway ride last night. Super hot inside and mine has a catalytic converter in it, but it hasn't blued on the outside yet in 5 years. |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 10/07/19 at 13:28:42 Thanks for your suport to! And excuse mee for the link that not showed anything! https://i.postimg.cc/hj118tzd/IMG-20190808-183243.jpg |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 10/07/19 at 13:54:26 07382D2D5D0 wrote:
WTF.. is this working? http://postimg.cc/1VVGVqWj :-/ |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by verslagen1 on 10/07/19 at 14:27:00 http://https://i.postimg.cc/hj118tzd/IMG-20190808-183243.jpg Yes, you are using the wrong button. |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 10/07/19 at 14:30:54 No its not working In anyway, its the front part of the Leo vince K02 slip on exhauste that get blue, the original header is light, very light yelow! And Im not hat concerned anymore about the blue.. I can always change to my original Suzuki exhauste if I want to.. if Im not to lasy! Thats is next year, next springtime! And to that oil leak.. its not coming frome the top/frome the sparklug region, its coming from the front side betwen the cylinder and the top, for what I can see! In anyway I mayby have a wrong thougts about this.. but I still want it to stop! Im just think that noby/no formar owner don any service at all! Soo, giv me your experiens/thougts about doings service.. is there any needs? Probably its more about anexitety to be a new bike owner.. I seldome done any service on any bike before.. but this was tvostrokers and 20 yers ago! |
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Title: Re: New member from Sweden! Post by Zepp on 10/07/19 at 14:45:08 746770716E6365676C33020 wrote:
Thanks a lot, im supose to be a computer expert in my company, but im still have some problems to post images in this forum! In anyway.. hope some sees the blue parts on the image, behind the not Leo Vince shield, im not think that the shielde is the problem! |
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