Welcome JaniceM, glad to hear you're willing to get back on the horse that threw ya!  Sounds like you got a great one too, very low mileage.  I agree with what bill67 said about roads to practice on.  I used the back roads around my house.  45 mph limit, some gentle curves, very few intersections, very little traffic.  If you can find an area like that, they are ideal to practice on.

Welcome Nancy, we had the pleasure of hosting SavageWahine from Kauai about year ago when she came over and borrowed my brother-in-laws Savage to attend the FSSNOC Thumper Lunch in Montana. Used to be pictures on here. She travel with Sluggo part way, then Savage Greg and his wife from WA to Montana. We caught up with them in Montana for the lunch. Had planned to use our savage sidecar rig, but it wasn't road ready. Drove a borrowed HD sidecar rig instead. Max

Hello all, and thank you. Due in part to these forums, I am the proud new owner of a 2002 savage. Its been ten years since I had a bike, and that was only for a few months when i was a teenager.  I plan on enrolling in a MSC, as I really have had no one to teach me the finer points of driving and owning a bike. I have learned  a lot here lurking, and I am sure I'll learn much more.I hope to do all maintenance and modifications myself, learning as I go(with the help of the forums of course). I'm really looking forward to it.  

Hope to see you on the road, CP

Hi All. Just found the forum - glad I did. I am a noob to riding - only had about 4 months under my belt on a 883Sportster when life happened and I was off of it for almost 2 years. Now, with the Sporty intimidating me a little bit, I picked up a screaming deal on an 09 s40. It had a whooping 1.2 miles on it. It was a trade in so I got it at the "used bike" price of $3700. That was a week or so ago.

Since then I have logged about 100 miles in. Love the ride but its not terribly fast at stock level. That's one of many places I am hoping you guys can help me out. Gotta figure out which jet kit/pipe to get......

Anyway - love the forum. Thanks for having me!  

Hello, my name is Mike and I am from northwestern suburbs of Chicago. I bought a Savage for my girlfriend 3 weeks ago and have lurked around here reading about carb mods, exhausts, tweaks, and maintenance. I'm actually a automotive ASE master technician who works on Honda's for a living. Naturally I ride a Honda, a SP2 RC51.

G/F wanted a S40 for a while and I picked up a 97 Savage w/4500 miles for dirt cheap. Since they haven't changed much over the years I figured it would be perfect starter bike for her.

As far as I know the muffler is some kinda super loud un-baffled can that does look pretty good. It makes my (what I thought was super loud) RC sound quiet. I got a set of new front pads for it, oil change (Spectro Gold) and air filter. I'm gonna toy around with the carb because when I ride it, I want more power

She seems to be tuned pretty well, doesn't run too rich or lean cause the pipe stays constant color and there is no filth on the tail pipe. I've had it up to 100MPH easily, so my guess is there is little to be gained from the carb work, but I want to be able to pull from Sportsters

Welcome to all the newbies that snuck in when I wasn't looking. Personally I believe you picked the perfect bike and the perfect site to learn about this bike.

odvelasc wrote on 07/02/09 at 19:34:08:


Welcome Oscar, welcome to Savage not-so-anonymous.  

odvelasc wrote on 07/03/09 at 14:13:04:


Yonuh Adisi is Cherokee for Running Bear. (Please, no Running Bear loves little White Dove jokes)

I am 1/4 Cherokee but my heart beats as full is what I tell folks. I am also a Shaman and the name was given to me during my first Medicine Quest.

Yonuh means bear Adisi means running, the descriptive is on the tail end, just so you know. (Usually when I forget to tell people that they automatically start calling me Adisi instead of Yonuh thinking that it is Adisi that means bear.)