when i was out riding today i blew a hole in the crankcase,(yeah what fun).anyway i havent taken it apart yet.but what i can see through the gapeing hole is $1,900 in damage. kinda funny for a reliable bike ahwell i dont really care,i've really outgrownthe bike pretty quick anyway,this will give me a chance to get somthing better (finally).

i'll post pics of the stupid thing soon,i should have tried lancer's nitrious kit,it least i would have been going over 50mph,when it blew.

i dont know what really gave out,it was somthing on the bottom end,i know the counter balencer shot out of the front of the engine case denting the down tube.

when it happened the back tire locked up,which was covered by all the oil,and i slid into oncoming traffic,but i did manage to keep it upright so theres no damage to the bike besides the gapeing hole in the engine . i origanally thought i blew a tire.

if any of u guys want it $600 bucks custom paint and and forward controls.but if u dont want it i'll just shoot it with the 30 round ak-47.

rokrover wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:02:


yeah i'll never buy a suzuxi p.o.s. ever again.their quality and fit and finish is the worst i've seen. but it was easy to work on besides having to take the tank off to change the spark plug and having to put thousands of dollars into it to make it comfortable,good looking,and actually get it up to a mind blowing 90mph no thanks.  newbies or guests...save your money,seriosly. wait a year then buy what u really want, like a 1200 sporty,or the honda vtx,or even the yammy 650 v*.

p.s , we'll see if its bullet proof

well my dad looked at it and it was the connecting arm that broke which we didnt touch on the rebuild,but we should have because,i talked to my uncle who builds engines for nascar and he said if we rebuilt the top end,the "like new" compression on the top end was too much for the bottom end to handle. so when u do a rebuild plan on spending 3 grand to do it right.

i had 18,000 miles on the bike,the owners manuel says life expectantcy is 13,000 miles,so i guess i got my money's worth out of it

torque wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:02:

How about parting it out?
I'd love to get my hands on a cheap fender w/ accessories (lights, siderails, sissy bar) to chop and rework.

Wow, that sucks. Sorry to hear it. May you have better luck with your next bike. Too bad you can't just pick up a used motor and drop it in.

Thumperclone is absolutley right!  The real story here is that you're safe and weren't turned off biking all together - that would suck...  
Sad to lose you , but enjoy the Sportster 8)...you buying new or used? Send pictures when you've got it the way you want it.  (you think the Savage was $$ to get it "just right"? You have not yet begun to spend! )

yeah,im lucky i didn't get killed.but awhile ago i was going to trade my truck for a 883 sportster and a 96 mustang,but that deal didn't work out. im really thinking about a sport bike,maybe a new 500 or 650 ninja,my dad works six and half days a week so the sporty1200c is mine most of the time so i really dont want another one.

yeah my brother got the savage for his first bike,he didnt do any research on it ,kind of an impulse buy,and he out grew it in less than 7 months,he couldn't stand the buzy a$s motor. so when he left for iraq 3 years ago,he gave me the savage as a "hope u dont die" present. but the first year and a half i didnt ride it because i was 17 working third shift 70 hours a week,so when i finally started to ride the savage probably in 2004,i fixed the factory oil leak,then kept fixing it ever since,so i only got to ride it 11 months the rest was down time.yeah i've never been satisfied with it. a 650 with the power of a 125,yeah it's small but thers a million small bikes out there that dont copy the technolgy of a lawn mower.

i might part it out, it does have brand new paint  

the only positive thing that came out of the savage was meeting the people on this forum and most of all meeting jim_r.