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kawazacky YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 23	Magazine article on my tour on a Savage 07/24/17 at 15:55:00 Well, I went for a ride on the Savage, and then I wrote it up! http://canadamotoguide.com/2017/07/23/back-to-basics-touring-on-a-1000-suzuki...
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Magazine article on my tour on a Savage Reply #1 - 07/24/17 at 17:21:49 That's cool,, thanks.
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ohiomoto Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2681 WTF is JOG?	Re: Magazine article on my tour on a Savage Reply #2 - 07/24/17 at 17:34:23 Cool! Thanks for sharing it here.
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engineer Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 872 Gender:	Re: Magazine article on my tour on a Savage Reply #3 - 07/24/17 at 18:15:57 Congratulations on getting your article published. Is this your first or have you written articles for publication before this?
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springman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2188 Spring, Texas Gender:	Re: Magazine article on my tour on a Savage Reply #4 - 07/24/17 at 18:24:30 Very enjoyable article. Well done my friend.
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 4997 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Magazine article on my tour on a Savage Reply #5 - 07/24/17 at 20:52:19 Great story ! It's not how fast you get there or back home , its the Journey ! Same as my RYCA donor bike.
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jcstokes Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com is very useful Posts: 2119 Mauku New Zealand Gender:	Re: Magazine article on my tour on a Savage Reply #6 - 07/24/17 at 22:36:01 Very enjoyable article, and no, you don't NEED to ryca it.
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Reply #7 - 07/25/17 at 03:49:47

Great story, nice adventure, and a cool memory.

The Savage is a budget bike, and a few changes can improve the ride and handling of the bike, and should be made if you continue touring on it. Better/taller rear shocks help the ride and handling considerably, the 25 tooth Kawasaki front pulley helps the bike maintain highway speeds more comfortably.

Sure you can find better touring bikes - but for a lot of us the Savage is "good enough".

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Reply #8 - 07/25/17 at 03:54:43

engineer wrote on 07/24/17 at 18:15:57:

Congratulations on getting your article published. Is this your first or have you written articles for publication before this?

I've been writing for motomags for years, particularly CMG. I've been in ROADRUNNER, ADVMoto (where I got my start) and that custom mag Barnetts used to sell as well.

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Reply #9 - 07/25/17 at 03:55:49

Dave wrote on 07/25/17 at 03:49:47:

Great story, nice adventure, and a cool memory.

The Savage is a budget bike, and a few changes can improve the ride and handling of the bike, and should be made if you continue touring on it. Better/taller rear shocks help the ride and handling considerably, the 25 tooth Kawasaki front pulley helps the bike maintain highway speeds more comfortably.

Sure you can find better touring bikes - but for a lot of us the Savage is "good enough".

If I keep the bike long term, I'll look into better shocks for sure. I like the gearing on the bike, but I'd probably mess around with it for fun, just to see the difference. I like my low-end torque. I'm used to riding big single dual sport bikes.

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Rodger Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 256	Re: Magazine article on my tour on a Savage Reply #10 - 07/25/17 at 05:15:07 +1 on the positive comments....good write-up! I bought my S40 to "get back to basics," after many larger/faster/smoother...& complicated...motorcycles, and it fills that bill nicely.
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Re: Magazine article on my tour on a Savage
Reply #11 - 07/25/17 at 06:36:07

kawazacky wrote on 07/25/17 at 03:55:49:

Dave wrote on 07/25/17 at 03:49:47:

Great story, nice adventure, and a cool memory.

The Savage is a budget bike, and a few changes can improve the ride and handling of the bike, and should be made if you continue touring on it. Better/taller rear shocks help the ride and handling considerably, the 25 tooth Kawasaki front pulley helps the bike maintain highway speeds more comfortably.

Sure you can find better touring bikes - but for a lot of us the Savage is "good enough".

If I keep the bike long term, I'll look into better shocks for sure. I like the gearing on the bike, but I'd probably mess around with it for fun, just to see the difference. I like my low-end torque. I'm used to riding big single dual sport bikes.

What's your favorite, budget minded one?

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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10588 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: Magazine article on my tour on a Savage Reply #12 - 07/25/17 at 06:47:02 Yep, well done on the article. It was a joy to read. Upgrades ? Oh yes.
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Re: Magazine article on my tour on a Savage
Reply #13 - 07/25/17 at 10:57:39

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 07/25/17 at 06:36:07:

kawazacky wrote on 07/25/17 at 03:55:49:

Dave wrote on 07/25/17 at 03:49:47:

Great story, nice adventure, and a cool memory.

The Savage is a budget bike, and a few changes can improve the ride and handling of the bike, and should be made if you continue touring on it. Better/taller rear shocks help the ride and handling considerably, the 25 tooth Kawasaki front pulley helps the bike maintain highway speeds more comfortably.

Sure you can find better touring bikes - but for a lot of us the Savage is "good enough".

If I keep the bike long term, I'll look into better shocks for sure. I like the gearing on the bike, but I'd probably mess around with it for fun, just to see the difference. I like my low-end torque. I'm used to riding big single dual sport bikes.

What's your favorite, budget minded one?

Best duallie for the money IMHO is the DR650. Can do it all, and out of the box needs nothing but some loctite or wire on the Neutral Sending Unit.

KLR is big/heavy, but usually available cheap. XR650 is nimble and light but more pricey and they burn oil. Older DR350s are great but also burn oil. DRZ400 is too pricy for what you get.

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Magazine article on my tour on a Savage Reply #14 - 07/25/17 at 11:58:24 Best duallie for the money IMHO is the DR650.. Thanks, that has a lot of reading that goes with it. The SE sounds like the twisties riders approach. I'm a short guy and the tippy toes at the stop sign makes me uncomfortable.. Have you spent time on the Kawasaki 250 and 300?
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