You are going to love it even more Tracy, once you get some more experience. Just take it slow and easy. With practice you will soon be looking for longer and more challenging trips. The bike is a great one to learn on and can handle  all kinds of street ridding. You would be hard pressed to find  better bike than the S40 for scooting around the city. When you are ready for a road trip the S40 can do that too. If you take the time to explore this forum, you will be able to scope out the bikes week points (every make of bike has them). The great thing about this forum is that there are people who have many years experience ridding and working on the Savage/S40. They are generous enough to share this with anyone who asks. I had an '08 S40 for 2 years and loved it. My needs have changed and I now have bigger bike, but still think anyone who gets Savage/s40 has made a great choice.

What ? ?  No wash ? ?

There's nothing like a little foamy spray to wake you up in the morning !
Welcome to the Savage/S40 world.

This is a remarkable bike and the longer you ride it the more you will see how it truly unique it is.
It will do most anything you want of it and do so with very little effort.

The tweaks and mod's done by some other owners here to make it a bit more comfortable and efficient are usually pretty easy to accomplish on your own or perhaps with just a little help, and make the bike that much more ridable.

If you need something just ask; someone here will help you.

Okay, so after I said she hasn't backfired? Today she did a few times and I kept thinking I gotta get back on the forum to tell. It wasn't loud and I think maybe I didn't let her warm up enough first. I'd only gone a few feet.

The engine is still making that new bike engine smell - 30 miles and still stinking. It's going away slowly.

It's my first bike. The 30 or so miles on it are the most I've ridden since the safety class. It does make me nervous cause if something was wrong, I wouldn't necessarily know it, much less know what to do besides call the shop and take it in. The guys are my shop are great, I know they'll help me out.  I'll keep an eye on it and let you know what it's doing. I'm so glad I found the forum!

Welcome all you new folks!

Jimsgirl: I wouldn't worry a lot, as long as it's not popping like crazy.  As was stated, they're set up to run lean from the factory, to pass US emissions, so they do pop a little; mine did especially on shutdown.  You can adjust the mixture screw to richen it up a little for starters, and that should help.  Plus, it'll keep your header pipe from bluing quite as fast!

Wow. Pregnant pause. Sorry, didn't mean to scare you off. Hey one more post and I can put up some pictures.  

Thanks for the kind words. I was looking forward to meeting him. Well I must retire. Six am comes fast on the west coast. Question,how do you post pictures on this site? Any instructions?