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