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HovisPresley Serious Thumper Offline Good Vibrations! Posts: 991 Midlands, UK Gender:	Cycle magazine - August 86 review 05/11/16 at 11:48:17 Thought I'd share this, as it's interesting reading
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28660 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Reply #1 - 05/11/16 at 12:17:48 Neat article,... I've never seen that one. Thanks for positing
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Kenny G Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com The Singles Club...LOL Posts: 1754 Robson Ranch, Denton, Texas Gender:	Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Reply #2 - 05/11/16 at 14:31:16 From reading the article would anyone have thought it would still be around 30 years later? Kenny G
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Reply #3 - 05/11/16 at 16:02:27 My 2005 didn't feel like any 6.08 second zero to sixty...
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pg Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 5273 In Transit	Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Reply #4 - 05/11/16 at 16:36:24 I thought the Savage as opposed to the s40 had buck horn handlebars. Evidently that is not correct, can someone elaborate? Best regards,
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28886 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Reply #5 - 05/11/16 at 16:58:18 originally, it was an option, buckhorns or drag bar. in the oem fishe you see LS650F or P
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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Reply #6 - 05/11/16 at 21:13:17 That's been around a while. You can find a copy here as well: http://savageriders.com/
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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Reply #7 - 05/11/16 at 21:14:58 Including this cool ad.
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pg Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 5273 In Transit	Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Reply #8 - 05/13/16 at 04:27:29 verslagen1 wrote on 05/11/16 at 16:58:18: originally, it was an option, buckhorns or drag bar. in the oem fishe you see LS650F or P Nice, thanks for clarifying. Best regards,
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review Reply #9 - 05/13/16 at 08:48:40 Had stock buckhorns on a Kawasaki 750. I couldn't hardly pick it up. Replaced with some nearly flat bars, easy to pick up. And much more fun to ride.
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Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review
Reply #10 - 05/13/16 at 08:58:23

The bike was a bit dated when it was first developed.....even more so now that 30 years has gone by.

It is a "basic" bike in a lot of ways, and that is the charm for a lot of us. I would be nice if Suzuki could just do a little work and improve the cam chain tensioner, head plug, and add a modern speedometer that had a trip meter.

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Reply #11 - 05/13/16 at 09:42:32

Dave wrote on 05/13/16 at 08:58:23:

The bike was a bit dated when it was first developed.....even more so now that 30 years has gone by.

It is a "basic" bike in a lot of ways, and that is the charm for a lot of us. I would be nice if Suzuki could just do a little work and improve the cam chain tensioner, head plug, and add a modern speedometer that had a trip meter.

A tachometer would be nice too....

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Reply #12 - 05/13/16 at 15:30:24

When I got past break in and started messing with it, I thought I needed a tach. By the time I got done shopping I had ridden it hard enough to realize that the bike told me when to change gears. I could run through the gears from second to fifth, up or down, without the clutch, nothing but the feel and sound of the engine for a guide,,
It's like riding a drunken rubber cow through some sweepers, but a peg dragging monster through some corners. I wouldn't have had time to pick the gear based on a tach going into a corner. It's about the sound and feel and experience with a corner. You'll get as much value from installing a dome light.

I drove 18wheelers that didn't have a tach. Clutchless shifting wasn't too hard, I used the oil pressure gauge.

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Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review
Reply #13 - 05/13/16 at 15:49:17

Seems people forget it's very much an entry level to the more expensive Suzuki cruisers, or a learners bike. I'm sure Suzuki would be eternally grateful if people dumped them within a year and up scaled to something more powerful and possibly profitable for Suzuki. Suzuki's marketing department just didn't factor in the number of low income forty to seventy year old males out there.

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Re: Cycle magazine - August 86 review
Reply #14 - 05/14/16 at 00:29:33

HovisPresley wrote on 05/11/16 at 11:48:17:

Thought I'd share this, as it's interesting reading

Kris01 wrote on 05/11/16 at 21:13:17:

That's been around a while. You can find a copy here as well:

http://savageriders.com/

I have the magazine and scanned the pages in January 2013. You can see that the posted pictures are of my originals, shrunk a bit.

I kept the magazine not for the Savage, but for the Honda 200 -- I bought the first one sold in the LA South Bay.

Hovis -- if those pictures are on a commercial page they owe me for my copyright.

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