Suzuki SV650 Drag Races | Challenge SV!
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- As part of or Challenge SV series we wanted to see how well this humble bike does at the Traffic Light GP. So called on a few mates to come and challenge us. You might be surprised at the result!
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Brilliant stuff. People always discount bikes like this as not having enough performance, but it takes a really high performance car to get the same levels of acceleration, so you really don't need more on the road to have fun.
Exactly .... the SV650 can do 0-60mph in about 3.7 (ish) seconds ... stock ..... there's not much below full on sports cars that can do that without some serious mods. The power to weight ratio of bikes is hard to beat 😉
Is that SV650 tuned? I am impressed
Every bike I've owned was a lot faster than 95% of cars on the road, and that's including a 17 hp CRF250L. Fact is the vast majority of car drivers are too scared to even floor the accelerator, despite their cars being slow anyway.
@@aluisiousit’s power-to-weight. Most cars are at least 1.2+ tons vs 120kg+ bikes. Then there’s gearing and all that…
7x the weight needs 7x the lower to get started.
People that say “not enough Performance” usually have no idea what they’re talking about lol that goes double in the car scene.
Let's be honest, the sv has to be one of the best bikes ever made. As an all round package (especially for the price) it's pretty hard to beat!
very good bike, id say competing with the Suzuki bandit, also good price, performance and its also indestructible. Suzuki have to make some of the best bikes along side triumph
Currently has only one competition wich is the Mt07
But that's all about to change with the new Hornet
The sv is definitely better at price
The noise sounds similar for all 3
It all goes down to power
I just wish for about two inches more seat height.
Runs out of oil if you wheelie
@@kecskekecske9643 MT has easier maintenance than SV. Much lighter too.
You launch that SV unbelievably well Chris, I couldn't stop giggling 🤣
I was thinking the opposite... I get off the line much faster in my Gen 1.... and I know better than to wheelie mine. .. that sv is toast in those hands long
@@TroyC68 no one fkin cares dude.
And yet you have 0 videos to back that up, just you posing next to an SV650 instead of riding it.@@TroyC68
@@GaijinGamerGirl stock sv650s can run 11 seconds. i believe him lol, launching a bike is easy if you know how to, and he is right about the wheelies, they will burn the front cylinders at balance point from oil starvation. seems like he knows what he's talking about. not everyone is a content creator nor do they have to prove they know how to launch a bike, just from watching the video you can tell this guy sucks at launching
Doubting this very much lol@@xander4218
I knew nothing about the sv650 the day I sat on it at the dealership. It was a used 2017 with 6k miles. All I knew is that it felt right and was in my budget. Wow did I get lucky. I've since realized there couldn't have been a better bike to fit my needs. I've doubled the mileage in 6 months and am having a blast. Great video. They definitely are fast enough for this 50 year old.
I love the change from the usual S1000RR or V4 Panigale vs a Ferrari or Lambo, way back in the mid 70s when I started biking it would've been an RD250 or KH250 vs a Cortina or Vauxhall Victor.
Really nailing those starts on the SV 💪🏻👍🏻
Really impressive starts. I guess with a 2 cylinder with this kind of power it's harder to overdo the start, so maybe easier to launch than bigger more powerful bikes.
i am an experienced rider and have a 2nd gen sv650. No average sport car is a match 0-140kmh for this bike. only cars around 400hp have a chance. topspeed is a different story since after 160kmh it looses most power and tops at around 200kmh
I got a V-Strom 1050XT and it's always fun when cars think it's slow because it's an adventure bike. It is slow by bike standards. But it smokes most cars. In fact I have not lost yet. :) Great review. Chris is the most fun RUclipsr to watch in my opinion. Great stuff. Keep it up :)
I'm picking up an older DL1000 V-Strom today, coming from the DL650. The 650 was no slouch, but I can't wait to see what the 1000 can do!
I used to have similar with my SV1000, except with other bikes - plenty would just discount it as an SV650 'til I was still hanging with them past 100... 🤣
I own a VStrom 650, but not relevant to the fact that every time I swing my leg over it and move off up the road I’m surprised by just how fast a bike is when compared with a car. I don’t know why I don’t loose the impression. Glad that I don’t. Sublime feeling 😊
I had the same experience on my trusty Svartpilen 401. Looks like a 125 but easily smacks every Golf GTI at the lights😂. This thing only had 42hp, abismally slow for a bike
Really interesting vid and kudos 👏 to the SV650. Some so-called experts like to put crap on the SV and Suzuki in general, but in reality the SV is still made in Japan so it's got that tried and true Japanese build quality. A little known fact is that Suzuki still builds the majority of its model line-up in Japan with only their 125's and 250s built elsewhere, unlike it's 3 other Japanese brand competitors. Just something the experts "forget" to mention.
well the experts are kind of right though. suzuki is crap in general and the newer SV's while great is still in the shadow of the OG SV650 which is hard to live up to. look att the lineup of bikes suzuki has. most of them are outdated AF and the most popular one is the most overhyped ugly POS bike in the world the busa.
Isn’t the MT-07 also manufactured in Japan?
@@keiths7346 MT07 (good bike) is made in Japan. T7 is made in France. Like Suzuki all Yamaha small quads and 125 and 250cc are made in China. I have ridden motorbikes since 1977 and have owned bikes from all 4 Japanese brands. One Kawasaki, more Honda's than any others (4) but the 2 Yamaha's and 3 Suzuki's were completely trouble free. Having owned bikes from all 4 Japanese makes, I can honestly say I'm not brand biased.
@@rampage3337 "Suzuki is crap in general" is a rather sweeping and uninformed statement don't you think, Rampage. How many have you actually owned? I ridden for 45 years and owned bikes from all Japanese brands. One less than memorable Kawasaki with top end problems, 4 Honda's (from my experience the most overrated and underwhelming brand of all) of which bar one (vfr1200f) had really annoying problems like cam chain tensioner troubles, regulator/rectifier and other pia problems, whereas my Yamaha's (2) and Suzuki's (3) had no probs whatsoever.
@@rampage3337 my 99 TL1000R would like a word with you.
just to put things in perspective, we forget how fast we ride on our bikes. Last week at work i had to test a new porsche boxter with 300hp. I accelerated hard, went to highway a d dropped from 6th to 3rd a few times and floored it and thought to myself - holly crap this is an extremely fast car! went back to the office and compared 0-100 and 0-160kmh times of a stock sv650 (have one from 2004) and this boxter to realize my bike is faster than the 300hp car which in my country costs a pornographic price
Good job finding exactly what kind of car it takes to beat an sv650. You need a ton of grip to launch a car like a bike, but the faster you go the less the weight and traction matter and the more aerodynamics and power start to take over, both of witch the 911 has big advantages on.
top-of-the-range Tesla lekky...........??
Which makes a money perf ratio ridiculously bad for the porsche
This says it all doesn't it. This is one of the reasons why I love motorcycles. I once bought a 2001 Honda CBR600F (F4i) voor 1900 euro. Crazy performance for under 2k.
The f4i is a really cool bike
SV650 was my first bike, excellent engine, forks need stiffer springs and thicker oil and then it's a great handler too. My bike picked up 10HP at the tire from a custom dyno tune, the included power-commander maps were that bad. It was way too lean with no airbox lid/velocity stacks/full system. Pulled all the way to the rev-limiter after then tune! Can't recommend a custom tune highly enough. Great races!
I've been waiting for this for so long. There's an SV650X for sale near me heavily discounted due to the new model. I'm coming from the world of cars and stuff like this is so useful to help me understand if it's the right bike for me.
Thanks and keep it up!
I love my 650X, would highly recommend. The turning circle requires a bit of planning!
It's a great starter motorcycle as well.
Good luck, and always gear up!
Sv650x is the best looking variant by far IMHO and you could be happy for a long time if this is your first bike good sir!
You can't go wrong with the SV, especially if you're looking at a good deal on one! They're easy to learn on and they have plenty to grow into.
Had mine for almost 3 years now. Great bike that you won't regret purchasing. The highway without a windscreen will be daunting the first few times, but you'll get used to it.
I own the SV1000. An absolute beast that accelerate like hell with its massive vtwin torque and doesn't cost much to maintain and to buy nowadays
It is always funny when cars roll up on me on my Husky 701sm with 74 rwhp. Probably looks like an mx-bike or a moped to many ppl, they don’t realise what it can do.
That’s the reason you see so many on track. I had a tracked one. 150kg wet. 50:50 weight split. The GSXR 1000’s had me on the straights, but it embarrassed them on the brakes and in the corners. £7k is not cheep though. They were £4,500 when I bought mine. Okay, some years ago, but inflation busting prices increases on everything at the moment.
Great to see a simple 650 being that quick. However, let's be honest, the rider makes the difference. Chris is a fabulous rider, I for one would never be and will never be as quick of the line with my bike or any bike for that matter.
I have the same bike with same exhaust. Riding one year and easy to nail off the line.
Practice makes perfect. Nothing like nailing a launch on a motorcycle, feeling the front wheel hovering millimeters off the ground while dancing between the clutch and throttle... gotta love it.
Love an SV me, and love a visit to Turweston! Great fun vid gents....loved it!
I'd like to see you do a multi day tour.
I still maintain that as long as you've got the appropriate riding gear for the conditions, you don't really need a big heavy touring bike to have a fun riding holiday.
I take my Honda forza 330cc scooter anywhere any time no problems.
really no need for a bigger bike
@@darekm6859 man you're right but I don't have money for anymore speeding tickets lmao
Fantastic video. Great to see an SV smoke 2 out of 3. Today, just brought home a '23 blue tank, bronze frame. Even with stock exhaust, this thing sounds excellent. Can't wait for warmer spring days!
I mean 3 out of 4
Quickshifter and keep his head straight in the same position I'd say he would have the 911. Long live the sv 👌👌
Haha, SV650 the cheapest motorcycle and still dominating all these sport cars XD
Ironic that the M2 driver was complaining about traction issues... Despite having twice the driven wheels, a bigger contact patch, more weight to push you into the ground, and no propensity to flip over backwards if you get things wrong
I bought my SV650 in February 2022, and then got rid of my Tenere 700 shortly afterwards, which I don't regret one bit; too top-heavy. The SV650 brings a smile to my face every time I ride it. I've done a few mods, the best being a slip on exhaust, and that 90° V-twin now sounds epic. It's best summed up as a boulevard dragster!
I feel the opposite. I had an SV and find myself smiling much more on my Tenere.
@@YamyHaw How any times have you dropped it?
@@soulrebelno1 I’ve had an SV650 and currently have a T7. It all depends on what riding you like. The SV is an absolute blast on windy paved roads and gets the nod there, but the Tenere is almost as fun on pavement and really shines when the pavement ends. I have managed to tip over twice on it 🙃
@@AdventurePiggy You're spot on! Buy a bike that's designed for the job, that suits your needs best, and don't part with your hard-earned cash until you get a demo. I think the Ténéré 700 is a great bike; the CP2 engine is a peach, I loved its road presence, and its load lugging capabilities. I bought my Ténéré 700 during lockdown, I couldn't get a demo, but it had a decent price at the time. But, eventually, I just got fed up with its high centre of gravity, plus the seat tends to force your legs out to the sides. I had a few hairy moments with it, and I'm 6' 2"! Once, during the rush hour, I nearly dropped my bike at the lights, when I put my foot in a pothole on a sunken road - it was very scary! It's no surprise to me that Yamaha have put lower, high capacity dual fuel tanks on the new Ténéré 700 World Raid.
To be honest, the bike I really wanted was the Triumph Tiger 900 GT, but you just couldn't get hold of one due to supply problems back then. And, it was the same story at every dealership I rang, very annoying. In the end, I realised the Ténéré 700 wasn't the bike for me. I looked around, and got a fantastic deal on a new SV650. I fitted a Givi rack, I use my Givi boxes when required, and it suits me just fine.
Over the last few years, adventure bikes have become very popular, but why buy one if you're never going to go off-road? If I was to go touring, I'd buy something that was road focus, like the Suzuki GSX-S1000GT+, or a BMW R 1250 GS. If I was going off-road, I'd look at a lightweight dual sport motorcycle. 👍
Just picked up a 2023 SV650 6 days ago! What model slip on did you get?
The SV sounds mint ! Still amazed how much quicker bike still are get some !!
It’s like the FZ-07. It isn’t fast. It isn’t the torqueiest. But it absolutely goes.
Also, naked bikes love to just wheelie and chill under 60/70mph.
Anything faster and you’ll want a sport bike with fairings.
One of the most good natured and fun motorcycle vids. I have ever watched. Thanks to all the participants.
Considering most real world road drag races are only up to around 40 to 60mph, I’m giving it to the SV 😝
Good point. Looking at Porsche's own data, the SV's 0 to 60MPH time would require a much more special Porsche than this model.
yes, on the streets the performance difference between this type of bikes and the average car is shocking. i have a 2005 sv650 and near my house there is a traffic light before 100m of a straight road that makes a hard right. When i accelerate with some spirit, i reach the corner when the cars are just starting to accelerate. Its amazingly quick considering its an entry level bike.
It's not like you pay more for a faster bike though. I guarantee that thing cost more than my thou. You can beat PRETTY MUCH everything on the road for under £2k comfortably, enough to make that Porsche look like the transit did.
I remember riding my first bike, an SV650 to school everyday. Guys there would give me shit like "you could've gotten an R1 mate, why did you get such a slow bike?". My answer always was "then why did you get a Golf GTI instead of a Ferrari V12 to drive to school?". I clocked my SV650 at 3.6 sec 0-100 easily, which at the time would beat Porsches, BMW M5, Audi RS6 and basically any supercar up to €300.000. All with a €3000 bike with, when I got rid of it, 80.000 km on the odometer.
Car guys won't understand. Ever.
I really do not understand this bougie mentality, despite thinking this is a very cool video.
Since when was a $8,000 motorbike cheap, accessible, mundane? And since when was a 12ish second quarter mile considered slow?
What the hell is happening to us, why does every consumer suddenly think they have the skill, and therefore the needs of someone like Aleix Espagero?
My buddy has owned 2 MT09s and Daytona 675 despite never having been to the racetrack even once, and he thinks they are barely enough performance for him. WTF! He has no idea how to ride his bike!!!
Absolutely idiotic mentality that usually ends up in kid wrecking their overpriced pride and joy (which is exactly what happened to my buddy).
ESPECIALLY bad here in the USA.
Great presentation 🎉 & great choice of bike, made a 70year old biker laugh a lot, especially the “missed gear”🤙🏻 keep up the great stuff.
For the sake of balance in these discussions there are underpowered bikes on the market--- but the vast majority of modern bikes by the standards of cars are very, very fast and any sort of sport bike or sport naked bike are screaming fast so the HP boy's obsessed with liter bike power and straight line pulls with 3 inch chicken strips on their tires should re-think calling 600s, 650s or even a Ninja 400 if you don't have cornering skill "slow" because they're not.
The SV650 as an all around twisty ripper is a solidly fast machine in it's simplistic basic motorcycle design and very few can ride it to it's peak capabilities.
Cars are slow lol.... til you get to 100k + in cost.
I learned this back in 1985 on my 1st bike a 1983 Yamaha XT550. I raced a Corvette from light to light and was killing it. Now days I ride a 1989 Yamaha FZR1000. I think because of the double round headlights people think it is a scooter. 33 years old and still can smoke everything except the 600 plus horsepower cars.
I guess you must like classics
Great bike
Full fairing would have dusted that porche, Ive done it fair few times, Nakeds have way too much wind resistance you end up pushing the bike back at higher speeds
Would be cool to see something like 30-100mph race. Brilliant stuff
Great bike but I’ll stick with my half faired version. Better wind protection.
My versys was £2000 on I've not come across anything that beats it *yet*.
Also insured it at 20, no chance I'd have anything like this if I had a car
I wonder how much difference a fairing would make? Not much on initial acceleration but once speed reaches say 60/70 mph how much less drag would there be.? You might just beat the Porsche? :)
Maybe as an idea just the level up in pricing and power like with a STT ? Could be interesting to see how much faster a 110hp+ is vs sport cars.
I owned 2 Yamaha RD 350 Lc's , 46 bhp and a top speed of 115 mph. The figures aren't that great when you see them in print but those bikes gave me more enjoyment than any supercar or superbike ever could.
Put a small screen on it and top box and tour on and compare it to a BMW GS, etc
Track day it with a top box, take it to a drag strip, etc
"The only bike you really need!"
Take it touring, commuting, a bit of green-laning, maybe a trackday!
ALL IN ONE DAY (or maybe 2 :P)
Loving the child seat in the 911, what a statement 🤣
Is the cafe racer variant the same power? It underlines, perhaps, 70 - 75 bhp is a very good all-around number for enjoyment and having enough poke to get out of trouble/make quick and safe overtakes.
Also, wasn't the BMW more powerful than the 911? Yet, it didn't go as fast?
A GT86/BRZ is NOT fast by any means. It is a slow ass car these days.
Motorcycle drag races!! Why isn't there a channel doing this? Like CarWow for bikes!!!
Coming!
Really good, thanks... tell me, what's the trick? You get that sv off the line so quick!
I ride the 2nd gen SV and this video perfectly shows what it can do. It's great at acceleration but tops out just over 100. I have looked at upgrading but this bike does everything I want it to do on the street and the track. Hard to beat the utility of the SV. Great vid
tops out just over 100? Ive done a genuine 130 on my 2017 SV650 and I know from experience that the 2nd gen SV has more top end or is more peppy than the 3rd gen.
@@TheDeceptikron I don't get to 130 but close. I have a slightly taller front tire so the speedo reads slower as well as a shorter sprocket setup (14/47). I don't know that I've seen 120 or above at the track but definitely 1-teens.
@@OpticalToxin my Gen 1 has done 135 GPS verified
@@CrazyPanda688 going downhill? Not many people can get the gen 1s over 130 regardless of gearing.
The point is after 100 its pretty slow to accelerate. Yes it can do 130. But the passing power at highway speeds isnt amazing. But definitely sufficient.@TheDeceptikron
I think it is the aero dynamics of the bike that lost you the last race. Recommend a full fairing and rematch against the Porsche.
That off the bike handicap cracked me up. We know a van is never going to beat a motorcycle but that highlights just how slow it is. Brilliant.
The SV is such a fun bike. The only problem I ever had with it was the comfort over long distances. It gets uncomfortable after about an hour in the saddle.
Plus the swing arm looks shit and it feels way better with a 170/60 on the rear. Other than that - best 7-8k motorcycle out there
Look at what cyclists sit on... Anything is comfortable if you sit on it enough your ass will adjust.
@@raiden000 I ride mountain bikes and simply don't get how some people moan about motorbike seats
@@zyoungson215 I'm pretty sure anyone complaining about them being uncomfortable does not ride very much, otherwise their ass would adapt and it would be comfortable.
GSX-8S will be your solution, faster too.
S3/golf r would’ve been a good pair to chuck in there as well see about 20 a day on my work commute much prefer something like this to the carwow drag races be nice see the mt07 hornet 8s thing this z650 etc etc line up as well as mid weight adventures big bore adventures etc etc
The SV650 is a fantastic bike and you really don’t need anything more on the road than this plus second hand prices are fantastic.
Wow! Shows how fast even ‘slow and sensible’ bikes are compared to cars!
They're only slow and sensible compared to other bikes lol, and not even most of them . SV 650 swims in the middle to lower upper class in terms of bikes ridden world wide . Many Asian countries consider a 300 a fast bike
You had a VBOX, what did the data say? Is is sub 4 sec on the 0-60?
I'd love to see one of these videos with the types of bikes that people say are "slow". Like goldwings and gs'.
More coming!
A Goldwing will pretty much destroy any car off the line.
@@BikeWorldTVshow always deliver!
Anyone who calls a Goldwing or a GS slow in a straight line is an idiot. The Goldwing has a 6 cylinder motor. I'd laugh in that persons' face, being careful to make sure a little spittle or food hit them in the eye "accidentally," and never talk to them again.
I had an sv 650 great bike 141 mph in a tunnel smiles a smiles till one rainy night it cut out and I never got it to run clean after.... And sold it for £350! As a non runner, later found out it was the proccesor,! 🧐🙄
I ended up buying a different bike but always loved the SV, what a superb bike!
That looked like fun, well done SV. It put motorcycles into context.
I have one (SV650) and it’s a great overall bike. I raced MX for over 20 years and tried dual sporting but found out they don’t quite do either dirt or street that great for my level of riding. I bought an older 2005 SV650 for a great price and love it. I’ve had it for over 6 years and it was just a short term purchase. The bike owes me nothing and is still a great ride every time I swing a leg over it.
The sv is a great bike, I owned an old one, and in addition to handling well, it forever ruined inline 4s for me.
Agree with earlier comments...loose cat, new air filter, remap, quick shifter and see what the SV can smoke at Santa Pod. VBox data would be interesting as well. I've got the Euro 4 SV, great fun!
M4 makes a full exhaust for it. Would sound rad too.
Loose cat? Does it rattle? Or do you mean lose?
@@ronwhite8503 Liberate the cat, set it loose and get a smart M4 exhaust!
@@exothermal.sprocket M4 full race system looks good, claiming +10hp, price £709 from JHS though
Got mine Cat Deleted. Sounds Fantastic!. You can check the video on my profile
😃 I love my little SV!!😍
Boy racers always trying to race me off the line when I’m on my lowly old VFR - but even that heavy old lump is just so much faster than the average car.
i play a different game now: just stalk the opposition until the inevitable happens - car gets stopped in traffic, and you sneak by effortlessly. i wish i could get a horn like that brat on The Simpsons: Ha Ha !! 06 Tiger 955i
Nice 🙂 .... I wonder how the little SV would fare against those cars in lap times on a track like Cadwell or Oulton ... maybe you could show us that next??
I have a 2002 SV race bike and can do a 1:40 around cadwell park, have a look at some trackday vids and see how it compares.
Considering how it is the go to option for any track day rider on a budget id recon all variants do rather well, the frame of the bike gives it a great feel
Even my KTM 250 Duke can 'smoke' plenty of commuter cars and vans at the traffic light. But I'm going to upgrade to SV650 anyway since the lack of top end power on the 250cc single is really felt, on flat highway with wind blast I can get around 130km/h only.
Would actually be interesting to see someone like Chris and his talents ride the SV on track back to back with a sports 600 or 1000, to realistically see much difference in lap times he gets on bog standard bikes using a control tyre.
Great video, how about putting some off road tyres on it and go green Laning just to prove most bikes with the right tyres can do it rather than having to buy an adventure bike.
Great Video! Do it with a CBR650R too😉I think you would beat the Porsche 👍😉
I reckon if that had the half fairing then it might be enough just to tip past the porsche.
There's a website which has all the performance data, including 0-60 times, and almost anything over 500cc is less than 5 seconds.
And you're looking at a car over £40k to beat that.
But bikes are bad in top speed Ford Focus st have higher top speed than sv650.
@@jozefjozefczyk3936 race is over before Ford focus reaches top speed 😂😂😂
I have a 2007 SV650 that I bought for $1,500. 50k miles and counting. Changed the sprockets for smaller front/larger rear, now there are only a handful of cars that can hang with me off the line. Hoping to do my first track day sometime soon! Great video
There is a guy in my area selling a 07 with 3k on the odometer, for $5,000, bike looks super clean, you think that’s a fair deal or red flags 🚩?
@@offthewallsurfer1 Go for it, great bikes with VERY few red flags.
Can you do an Energica vs electric Porsche next?
DEFFO ...............i got left by a lekky...............
Chris, you are hell of a rider. Probably, even if we give you 125cc bike, you will still manage to win😉💪🏻
Need more people promoting the SV! It has been left in the shadow by many motorcycle journalists for a while now. Not cool.
On the twisty B roads around Yorkshire Dales, I left many sportbikes behind on an SV650.
It's so fun and effortless to ride. On very twisty roads, you don't even break or change gears that much, it's just throttle on and off. Hard to beat that in terms of having fun.
I love this, the SV 650 was my first bike and it was great. I live in Los Angeles I can't tell you how many idiot sports car drivers tried to race me and lost lol. I did lose to a Tesla sports car and some other exotic European awd drive car. New bike is a gixxer 1000 haven't lost to a car or a bike in a year heh.
If you put a quickshifter on the SV 650, it will make it atleast 0,2-0,3 seconds faster in a quarter mile.
And before anyone starts shouting how the SV 650 doesn't have ride-by-wire throttle, yes, I know but you can still easily put upwards quickshifter on these bikes. It's just when you're going down, you need to increase revs which you get with ride-by-wire. When going up, you only need to cut the fuel and ignition.
BMW M2 & a Porsche 911 against an SV650 twin cylinder motorcycle.... Pennies for the bike costwise & nowt in it for results here... Bike HUGE winner...I have its big brother with power commander & pipes & absolutely love my bike.
#2 i used to drag people a lot. now i play a different game: just stalk the opposition until the inevitable happens - car gets stopped in traffic, and you sneak by effortlessly. i wish i could get a horn like that brat on The Simpsons: Ha Ha !!
I bought my 2023 model new in March and I reckon it’s an absolutely brilliant bike. As a young fella I had my big powerful bikes and now as a 61 year old I was simply looking for something fun and reliable which it currently has been.
AHAH , see how she faires up against the old school Honda Hornet 600F 102 bhp, drag race, and and twists. My money is on the Hornet, and about 2.5K, even MORE cheaper than the cars, van, and bike!
That Toyota was a piece of crap. 😂 By the looks of it it’s about as slow as the transit van but they call it a sports car. What a joke. Great video though and it’s funny how many people don’t get this simple concept. That a relatively “slow” sporty bike is still faster than most “fast” cars. I remember years ago I worked with a moron that swore up and down that his WRX with downpipe back exhaust only would give my Yamaha FZ8 a good run. 😂 😂 Needless to say I quickly called him out with a “anytime anywhere” and embarrassed the hell out of him. After blowing his doors off a few times I even got out ahead and waited for him to come screaming up with everything he had then I hit it when he was about a car back from me. He got up to right beside me and then I was gone again.
I would like to see how my Street Triple R 765 would have faired. I’m pretty sure it would have spanked the Porsche considering it’s the same weight as the SV but makes almost 50 more horsepower.
Top speed the cars will win. Off the line the bike will win. I have an sfv650 and I can’t overtake Altimas or Hyundai Elantras on the highway at around 80-90mph.
Keep in mind, the Sv650 is a commuter bike. Something akin to a civic.Imagine what you can do with a supersport motorcycle
Thank you for saying this in a time where everyone is obsessed with getting 200hp liter/naked bikes, yes they'll get waaaaay more views and likes on RUclips and Instagram. Even Harley's are getting a bit silly with 131 big bore kits making 150hp and 150 tq 🙄
This video has me all warm and fuzzy and cackling like a teenager. Love it. The underdog of bikes whoopin' up on big bad cars. I've owned 4 SV bikes (last gen) in my time, loved most of them.
I'd wager the runs were so close with the Porsche, if you ran a full exhaust from M4 on that bike with an ECU flash, you'd have won those runs. Not to mention reducing bike weight (wheels, 520 chain conversion, other expensive stuff) would have made you that much quicker, probably into the high 11 second quarter.
Never the less, your throttle control on launch is SO good. Goes to show how capable a 645cc twin is, with someone who can exploit the machine.
Enough to have 100 hp motorcycle, don't know what everybody do with 200+hp motorcycles these days...
i know what they do.......................... they brag and/ or bs an AWFUL lot
200hp motorcycles get waaaaay more views and likes on RUclips and Instagram 🤷
You probably wouldn’t understand unless you’ve ridden a 200 HP bike. It’s a feeling like nothing else
It’s so much fun it’s almost unbelievable how something like that is even legal to ride on the road
Then again supercars exist so I guess it’s just the same sort of thing but in bike form, only much cheaper
Ideas for what to do with the SV?
Drag race with a budget 4 stroke 600/1000
Then drag with sports 600/1000, then naked, then super/hyper bikes.
Could be the SV v two models from each category at a time?
Why no roll on competition especially vs the Porsche?
well, we all knew the SV was going to cream every vehicle off the line - power to weight ratios, gearing and all that malarky. But if there was one change i could make. I would have subbed in an Audi TT for that GT85...Or just any Audi A4 or A5, those three are as common as dishwater around here.
I need a SV650 for track days next season. Have an R3 and absolutely love it for backroads and track days. Twins are so punchy and fun to launch, and the torque down low, power in the midrange is great, fast enough for me. But I need a Porsche now! 😳 Not rich so maybe a Boxster S.
considering the sv650 engine (and pretty much everything else other than looks) hasn't changed in 20+ years, the fact it was even close to beating the (much newer technology) porsche 911 is amazing.
I love my sv650 to bits, came off it last year unfortunately. have had to resurrect it from the dead to get it back on the road but I love it too much to get rid of it!
Child seat should have been on the bike! Only joking guys, top quality vid and always entertaining
The SV's best quality (with suspension upgrades) is its performance in twisties and the amount of torque it has. It's a really fun bike in twisties if you're a confident rider., it doesn't need tons of power.
Awful stock suspension for fast riding though so suspension upgrades are a must if you’re trying to ride at any sort of reasonable pace
I used a 2009 sfv as my daily commuter for a few years and even bashing it off the line every time I could. It still gave me all that acceleration AND 68.4mpg. What was the Porsche getting?
Still a lovely little bike. Shortly to become a modern classic. Grab old stock now whilst you can 👍
Na grab an sv1k instead
That's not a real, true tradie, a real tradie would have the top of the range FORD RS van with personalised plate bought with 'cash' but still deducted from their tax return which would probably be about £100 becasue tradies don't pay tax or VAT even though they scam the customer, wnakers.
It's usually less experienced bikers who knock bikes like the SV650. They can put in 104 mph laps around the TT Mountain Circuit. Okay, they are modded to race but that aint shabby!
That’s why I ride motorcycles!! A 12k SV650 has the same speed and acceleration as 100k+ Porsche