Looked at the 2009 Triumph Bonnevilles last week.  Noticed that they were fuel injected for the first time this year.  The throttle bodies looked a lot like carbs so the retro look was maintained.  I think they went to FI in order to ensure compliance with ever increasing smog requirements in Europe and here?  I wonder if Savage will  be fuel injected or discontinued sometime in the next few years.

I wonder if BMW's Rotax single FI system could be modified to work on a Savage?

My guess is that it will be the end of the road for the Savage/S40. I figure fuel injection will add several hundred dollars to the price and it will add nothing in performance. I figure the S40 is doomed in a year or so. Suzuki did introduce a 250 cc fuel injected model, so it is at least conceivable that the S40 will soldier on. FI will cure the backfire.

SavageDanny wrote on 03/25/09 at 17:33:06:


If they stop making the Savage/S40 I do believe the spare parts will still be plentiful for at least a few years then it will start dwindling.

Must not be perfect to everyone, or there wouldn't be all these posts about modifying it. Let's see - cure the backfire, change the exhaust, "white spacer mod", change the seat, add forward controls, change the tires, change the battery, turn it into a bobber, chain conversion, bigger fuel tank, change the petcock, and on and on. If it were perfect, there would be no need for modifications.

SavageDanny wrote on 03/25/09 at 17:33:06:


I really like the retro looks of the Bonneville T100 and Scrambler. They remind me of the bikes I wanted when I was young.  Downside is they weigh about 100 pounds more than Savage and cost upwards of $8000 new.  Guess I will be keeping my trusty 2003 Savage.

Charon wrote on 03/25/09 at 19:41:16:


But Charon, that's the whole point! Try doing that stuff to a Goldwing, or a Ninja, or a KLR. Oh, sure, you can make some mods to almost any bike; but look at the vast number of mods that can be made to the Savage! Some for comfort, some for performance, some for purely asthetic reasons. The Savage takes 'em all, and continues to run. For the less adventurous, and/or the few people that the Savage actually fits right out of the crate, there's always leaving it just plain stock. What other bike, in the Savage's price and performance range, can have so much done to it so realatively easy? That's what I'm talking about.

I perhaps thought of a different connotation to the word "perfect." I thought of it in its meaning of "cannot be improved." If we are using "perfect" in the sense of being a good basic foundation for all sorts of improvements, we have moved it into the Harley philosopy of supplying just enough machine to be ridden to the accessories outlet. There is apparently a difference in philosophy, here. I want to spend my time riding, not modifiying or wrenching. I try to look for, and buy, the machine that comes closest to what I want, so I don't have to spend (waste?) my time and money changing it.