vroom1776
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Well, at any rate, it sucks that his biek died, for wahtever the reason.
My chain tensioner died at about 13k miles on a long road trip. I was unmerciful to it: 6000 miles in 6 days at 80 or 85 mph. It kept going, just not over 65 mph. The bike took the me the next 800 miles, running like sh*t, to Massachusetts where it wsa rebuilt. Runs great now. A pal of mine had a Suzuki Haybusa. His cam chain tensioner blew too, and he was just bopping around town at 30 mph. It seems to me that this is a problem with suzuki's in general...
JimR, me, the 'busa, and I reacall someone else with this problem. However, since I did get home on my trip, I still think these bikes (i.e. savages) are pretty reliable. My budy's 'busa did not work when he lost his timing, but then again, he bent a valve.
So how many savages have died on this site? Me, JimR, torque, maybe 2 or 3 more (I think paladin bought one with an "optional hole in the piston head"... that one looked like it was jetted way too lean... user error)... out of about 1000 site users? so let's call it 5, no 10 just for kicks, dead savages... that's a 1% failure rate.
and again, just in general (and torque, this isn't aimed at you!), the savage is not designed to be a fast bike. It's designed to be cheap. $$$
Torque, good luck with your next bike! May I suggest an old honda cb 750? reasonably fast and they make great choppers!
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