Spam16v:
i was there every week year before last at bimp, didn’t get a chance this year between the job change and new house. i just have a drz400sm, change the oil and ride the stupid thing and enjoy. the early Sxv’s had about a 90% mortality rate the past few years, i hope they got the bugs worked out of them for your sake, there are a LOT of the used market with new nearly unstarted 08’ motors b/c the owners just want out while it’s still moving under it’s own power and not leaking oil out of every orifice. rebuild cycle calls for annual piston and ring job which is what really scares me as far as operating costs. if you actually want to ride your bike i’d look elsewhere, if you want it living on a stand in your garage/dealer waiting for warranty parts from the motherland get a european exotic. don’t get me wrong, when it’s going you’ll blow my doors off on one wheel at nearly 100lbs less weight than my steel framed antique, and almost twice the hp.
www.supermotojunkie.com is a great SM forum, as well as www.thumpertalk.com
maybe as they become more popular the squids on the sport bikes will stop being ignorant and accept something else. jumping curbs and general hooligan antics are just so much fun. try this on your 600
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYu7DQn5vAI
here’s ryan moore a year and a half ago on his before it crapped out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udqlXygfbIA
I was up there all last year to and Im on SMjunkies. From what I have read the bugs are all worked out. I can get A new one in a crate at dealer.
hopefully if you do it wont spend its time at the dealer :)… good luck, cant wait to see it
oil changes every 300 miles will blow
shit dude… thats one ride.
Spam16v
October 25, 2008, 5:16pm
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actually it’s recommended every 100 miles, 300max, and pistons every 2000 or 60 hours. great street bike…
http://slorider.com/aprilia/manuals/ServiceIntervals.pdf
K.A.T
October 25, 2008, 5:32pm
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SuperMoto is the shit would love one of these bikes, but i do hear they are a bitch in upkeep, thats what strays me away…
I was told every 10k miles was a top end, and depending on miles on witch map you run on the swtich on the bars riding habbits ect…
Id be screwed with that bike, as would you if you rode it in any sort of spirited manner it would be down most of the season… i put anywhere from 7-13k on a bike each season. I dont want to have to rebuilt or work on an engine every year.
I have only put on 8k miles on an 06 harley thats between two people
^ a buddy of mine has that bike, i’ve yet to get out to rochester to ride it yet. Obviously.
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November 11, 2008, 6:35am
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That jump was soooo dope btw.
And that Aprilia is sex
