Just joining and getting started on my build. I picked up a 2000 for a pretty fair deal. Stripping her down and doing a "bobber" build. Tons of great info here... thanks to all contributors!

I have a 1997 Savage. Dark blue. Got it near stock. Currently taking it apart and customizing as I go. Thank you for all the great info here.

How do everybody! To preface, I just wanna let everyone know this is old_rider's son. I chose my forum name as a tribute to him, since it's a handle he'd used for things in the past.

I'm unfortunately not riding, since I don't have my Class D just yet (though I can actually operate our motorcycles. I just ride them in the neighborhood for the time being) but I'll be getting around to it soon enough.

I inherited old_rider's Savage 650, and his Ninja 300, and fully intend to ride them both when I can. Hopefully I'll be able to make a trip to meet some of you guys before too long  

Hi everyone. By way of introduction, I am about to buy a used S40 Boulevard from a neighbor across the street. I plan to restore it, probably using a RYCA  kit. I'm not much of a wrench, so a minimum amount of engine work will be done, other than what I can do without cracking the case.  Haven't decided on details yet, so I'll be lurking and asking questions, a lot of question.

New to Suzuki, but not bikes or riding. Looking forward to learning from you folks.

Live in Maryland, retired. Have a lot of bike trips planned for this summer, so progress on this project bike will be slow.

Tripwire wrote on 05/23/18 at 15:49:48:



Good to meet you Tripwire.  Your dad was a good man.  I met him on several occasions during our mountain rides in the Smokies.
Welcome to the Forum and I hope to meet you some day before long.
Ride safe young man.

Michael

Hello, I'm Fatboy.
I got My class M and My bike last year. There were many trials and tribulations involved, as God regularly sees fit to remind Me I am His personal sitcom, apparently.
It's an 07' I bought used from a dealer with about 4,300 miles on it. It's a fun little thing. I really dig the single large cylinder design, as My main interest in motorbikes are as simple, easy to maintain transports.
Since getting it, I've returned the handlebar's position to stock (the arm that holds the handlebar was reversed and "pointing away" by the previous owner), added a toolbag, some tiny-as-hell saddlebags, and a Slipstreamer "classic" 22" windscreen, as I live in the frozen hellscape known as Wisconsin, and as such a windscreen makes riding in our usual God-awful long cold seasons more pleasant.

Being a big fat hairy goon with a body like ten pounds of lard and hair clippings in a nine pound bag (275lbs and 6,1"), I look and fit on the bike like a trained bear in a circus act, and badly need a set of those 5" peg extensions the Ed. L makes, which is the main reason I'm here. I only ride the bike in short hops around town right now, because the ergonomics suck on this thing and have Me sitting on My tailbone, like everyone else complains about this bike. Makes longer rides into the country less pleasant. I hope the extensions allow Me to fit a little better, and do some proper cruising out in the farmlands.

For the future, I've got a raptor petcock to install (been too lazy and busy to do it yet), and I've read up on the carb spacer mod. I'm broke as hell the moment, but after I get My crap together, I'll be having the saddle altered and reupholstered, (better ergo, and want brown leather). I've got some brown leather with a western floral design on it I want to us to make fancy-pants handle grips. will probably look into the chain tensioner mod next year.

My interests include long walks on the beach, cooking badly, and being an anti-social recluse (if I ever win the lottery, I am absolutely building an underground bunker in the middle of nowhere).

Hi I am Hiko  the proud new owner of a 2012 S40 in New Zealand. Bike has only done 2900kms and I am the third owner  I have no history of the bike but it looks like its been in storage for a long time Dark blue in colour with aftermarket handlebars but otherwise stock. I am an old guy in my seventies havent owned a bike for 40 years but have looked at these S40s
for a long time and finally took the plunge.  This is a great site and have been reading it for some time. I hope to get up to speed and get some good riding in as summer comes along in a few months time

Quick intro; Norwegian, born in '64, riding since '80, does not own a Savage/LS650 at the moment. Fond of singles, though, and find the LS650 the prettiest engine bar none. I see the bike as a platform to build something along the lines of the ST400 Tempter.