New ride for spring

Just made it home from executing a terrible plan: head out around the DC beltway during rush hour traffic in a severe lightning/wind/hail/heavy rain storm and ride a bike two hours back home through deer-infested country roads in the aftermath of the storm in the dark with both tires 10 psi too low. Anyway I made it so now my '01 SV650S is joined by an '09 FZ6. My back can't take riding the SV long distances so I wanted something similar but different. Found a good deal from a motivated seller and the bike only has 3800 miles. So far I'm loving it.

I haven't had time to take my own pics but here are some from the ad:

Bad plans build character! Good looking ride but is the riding position that much different to make a difference?

The riding position is probably pretty similar to a regular SV, but compared to the "S" the FZ6 is much more upright.

Regular:

S:

http://cycle-ergo.com/

according to this you lost 15 degrees of lean angle. Probably MUCH more comfy

My neighbor is into mid-displacement sportbikes. It's amazing how much bike you can get for 2-3 thousand dollars!

singleslammer wrote: http://cycle-ergo.com/ according to this you lost 15 degrees of lean angle. Probably MUCH more comfy

Cool site, thanks for the link!

pinchvalve wrote: My neighbor is into mid-displacement sportbikes. It's amazing how much bike you can get for 2-3 thousand dollars!

Yea no joke. This thing is practically brand new, revs so smooth (14k redline) compared to the v-twin and looks pretty good to boot. Even though I love the SV, it doesn't make sense to keep both so I'll probably put it up for sale shortly. In the end it will end up having cost me maybe $1k to upgrade (12k fewer miles, 8 years newer, 25 more HP, FI vs carb). Just another reason bikes are awesome toys.

NICE!

I approve of this change of steed. R6 is a good bike with nice ergos. SV650S has pretty bad ergos.

I support any choice from someone leaving an sv......