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SIR REAL EDNeat kit bikes. Having owned a Suzuki Savage/Boulevard S40, I was always amazed they did not sell like popcorn. Easiest street bike in the world for a beginner to learn to ride. ................... ..........Hay , I've still got mine ... keeping it for my "Old Man" bike. There's a guy on the SuzukiSavage.com site that has a Savage that is coming up on 150,000 miles and is still an everyday rider . Mine is about 50,000 miles and runs like a new one Keep the idle up to 1200 or better or the oil preasure drops , then the cam starves for oil , its the only way to kill them !
I have a Savage that I bought many years ago. The only Savage part is the motor. I love the torque.
The bike was started many years ago by Thunder Road in Conyers GA. Skeeter (Ron) was making a few of them based on customer orders. Unfortunately he passed at too early of an age. This bike was then passed on to his aunt and her daughter. Many years later I bought this and a Triumph race bike from them.I finished the work on the bike with a lot of help from a Brit bike specialist in CT. He had to realign the motor with the frame rebuilt the brakes and cleaned everything up. Several other items were dealt with subsequently.From what I can gather, the frame is a slimline. The tank is from a Norton Manx, the front 4LS front brake is from a Suzuki water buffalo. The rear brake is a generic Suzuki unit. The motor is from a 650 Savage.The bike is a blast to ride and the brakes do their job. If you expect disk brake performance you will be unhappy. If you compare it to my SuperAlce then they are amazing.On a side note if any of you are familiar with the vintage racing scene in GA in the early 90's, i am trying to get some info on the Triumph racer. It is a 750 triple that wore the number 74. It has a few nice add on's. I have decided to move on as my dreams of actually vintage racing it are long gone. If I find a picture I will post it.
I'm not in the market, but went to the Ryca Motors website and "configured" something like a reasonable build. Cost was up to about $4500 (and this is just for the kit, not including the donor bike!) in no time at all. That tells me that when it's all said and done, you'd have maybe $7K in a single-cylinder "cafe" bike. If you have $7K to spend on a bike, I think you can do a lot better.Think I can see why this kit isn't selling like hotcakes.