Never thought it would happen...
Long story short (EDIT, this still ended up quite long), about 2 weeks ago I heard that Jason was bringing home a streetbike for Cathy. I, being the selfish person I am, saw immense opportunity in this news. I've always wanted to ride/own a street bike, but had a bad history. Wrecked Jason's magna months before I bought the Z, got my moto temps about 2 years back but scared the *$#@ out of myself trying to learn on my dads Intruder 1400 and gave up after that. Whenever I saw people riding motorcycles in nice weather, I was immensely jealous.
Anyways, I head over Jason's and ride the monster knighthawk 250 in the yard a bit. Got my temps a week later, went for a neighborhood ride and then out on 35mph streets with traffic over time and did okay. The hunt for a bike started around then. Didn't know what to look for, and then Josh mentioned SV650 and I remembered looking at that bike years ago (around 2003) when I was thinking of buying a motorcycle (pre-wrecking jason's Magna). Took awhile sifting through craigslift drek, but ended up driving out to Plum, PA with Jason and Hayley on Sunday and picking the above bike up for $3k.
Took it out for the first time today and was nervous as hell. I did okay on the knighthawk but usually my starts involved a foot down or two and a little stumble. Not so with the SV, I fucking melded with this thing right away. I couldn't stop smiling just taking it down the street and feeling the power/suspension/smoothness/handling/etc EVERYTHING. I fucking LOVE this bike. Jason, Josh and I went for a longer ride a few minutes later and had an absolute blast. It is disgustingly deceiving how quickly you accelerate on this bike. Obviously there are much faster bikes, but I finish a turn and look down and see 60/70mph and think WTF. It was the equivalent of going 40mph in my truck. On a real long straight stretch, got it up to 90 with no effort whatsoever and then slowed down because I scared myself, hahaha. I have never before felt so comfortable on two wheels, I'm convinced this bike was designed specifically for me.
Anyways, to sum it all up, UNBELIEVABLE! I will be sending my firstborn to suzuki after the Z and then this. I may feel different a year from now, but I can't see myself outgrowing this bike. So much more to say but I need to stop, I feel like a little kid on Christmas. No...WAY better than that! This RULES!!
