All of you guys are fun as hell to debate with but some of you have gotta loosen up a little.  It's like Kid Rock vs. the Enzyte guy.  

I can't believe you didn't find my last post on page 2 hilarious.  I was rolling when I read it through.  

You should hear me speak Japanese.  Now that's hilarious.  It's been so long.  But I apologize to those of oriental ancestry.  Tomorrow I'll call mom and apologize to her.  But, hey, I can call Oba now.  It should be about 6 in the evening there.  Then my cousins, whose names I used in the stories- I'll tell them too.   But Misaki will have to pass the message on for me.  I haven't spoken with the others in maybe 5 years.  I've no clue how to get a hold of them.  Mom said Shin was playing baseball.  But I promise I will tell them.  It just may take a little while.  Misaki, or Misa (Mee-sah) as I've called her for as long as I can remember, is a total hoot.  She's also turned into quite a hottie.  Too bad she's family!  I still remember her laughing at me the last time she visited.  I called the traffic in my town "rush hour traffic".  She said I had no clue what rush hour traffic is like.  Yep, us military brats get to see quite a bit of the world.  Then as soldiers we get to see more of it.  

It's cool, bud.  I'm not offended.  But I think I'll let you have the rest of your thread to yourself.

Personally, I think the bike was designed as a conservative compression large single cylinder price beater competitor to the aging Honda 350.  Suzuki wanted something to sell on the low end to fill that market slot that didn't cost a lot of yen to make.

The same molds and dies have cast and stamped a lot of parts over the years for Suzuki.   It has always ridden the lowest price point in the Suzuki lineup of street bikes.  The Honda 350 is dust now, and the Savage rolls on.   I'd say it was a successful marketing/engineering effort.

We like it because we play with it to amuse ourselves.  Some make it noiser, some make it more powerful, some try to make it cheaper and easier to own.

It does make a pretty elegant little bobber.  It also makes the world's primo get around town go pick it up "wee bagger".  There are many bikes that can do "more" than the Savage can, but absolutely nothing that can do these two jobs better

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Now, when the 3 little nip engineers were in their engineer's cubby castle screwing off if their boss had banged the door open and roared out at them .....

"You Assho!  You treee worthless salary men not leave office until you figure out how to meet new EU graduated license power requirements and new American emission control limits!  

(he hits them with his little riding crop repeatedly until they cower submissively over their drafting boards)

You stay until your worthless peckers fall off or you come up with truuuly Yoda cheap solution, you treee worthless dogs!!"


  I mean, if you are going to be culturally insensitive, don't muck about when you do it