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cowboy Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 173	model question 06/21/12 at 11:39:28 so is my 96 savage a s40 or a ls650?
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babyhog Serious Thumper Offline Find a Cure for Breast Cancer! NOW!! Posts: 3802 WV Gender:	Re: model question Reply #1 - 06/21/12 at 11:43:13 "Savage" was used prior to 2005... renamed "S40" since. But they are all LS650. But to answer your question, your 1996 would be an LS650 Savage. My 2006 is an LS650 S40.
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cowboy Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 173	Re: model question Reply #2 - 06/21/12 at 11:51:20 thanks babyhog for clearing that up.
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Reply #3 - 06/21/12 at 13:08:44

Yup. Savage is a marketing name like Intruder or Marauder. The all got "rebadged" as Boulevards and use either an S, C or M along with the displacement in cubic inches.

I read someplace where they defined the prefix initial as such:

S=Sporty
C=Cruiser
M=Muscle

I don't recall the source and can't couch for its accuracy but they sort of made some sense.

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clearush Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 261 Deer Park,TX Gender:	Re: model question Reply #4 - 06/21/12 at 15:51:40 also 650cc = 40ci (approx)
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Savage_Rob Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Mechanically Inclined Amateur Posts: 6972 Texas (Dallas area) Gender:	Re: model question Reply #5 - 06/21/12 at 15:58:54 clearush wrote on 06/21/12 at 15:51:40: also 650cc = 40ci (approx) Savage_Rob wrote on 06/21/12 at 13:08:44: either an S, C or M along with the displacement in cubic inches
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Reply #6 - 06/22/12 at 00:16:20

Savage_Rob wrote on 06/21/12 at 13:08:44:

Yup. Savage is a marketing name like Intruder or Marauder. The all got "rebadged" as Boulevards and use either an S, C or M along with the displacement in cubic inches.

I read someplace where they defined the prefix initial as such:

S=Sporty
C=Cruiser
M=Muscle

I don't recall the source and can't couch for its accuracy but they sort of made some sense.

I'd heard somewhere the "S" stands for "skinny", as in skinny front tire, skinny fenders, etc. Not sure about the accuracy of that either though. Huh

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Cavi Mike Serious Thumper Offline Thumper n00b Posts: 1005 Rochester, NY Gender:	Re: model question Reply #7 - 06/22/12 at 00:44:43 John_D FSO wrote on 06/22/12 at 00:16:20: I'd heard somewhere the "S" stands for "skinny", as in skinny front tire I think you mean skinny rear tire... at least in the case of the S40
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Reply #8 - 06/22/12 at 06:14:25

Cavi Mike wrote on 06/22/12 at 00:44:43:

John_D FSO wrote on 06/22/12 at 00:16:20:

I'd heard somewhere the "S" stands for "skinny", as in skinny front tire Huh

I think you mean skinny rear tire... at least in the case of the S40 Grin

The whole thing is pretty skinny. The first time I got on my brothers' Vulcan 900 after learning to ride on the Savage, I felt like I was straddling a 55 gallon drum or something! Shocked

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SuperSavage Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 341	Re: model question Reply #9 - 06/22/12 at 22:55:57 I thought the "S" stood for SEXY
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WD Serious Thumper 2005 No Login Offline Professional "scooter trash". Posts: 5207 Rosemark TN Gender:	Re: model question Reply #10 - 06/23/12 at 13:45:26 Slow Clunky Miserable Although truth be told, I wouldn't turn down a C50T or C90T. Couldn't give me any variant of VS, I've demo'd 800s and 1400s, old and new. I'm too tall for them. So The S50 and whatever the big guy is the S stands for squished...
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