Kinda cool custom Bike

[BLACK SQUIRREL]

One of those gladius? things suzuki is replacing the SV650 with.

Looks like someone went and a made Hyper-motard type thing with it. after riding the Hyper and knowing the 650 twin motor, I would ride one if it were not priced to the moon

[underhillbu]

Overall it looks nice. Not to impressed with the color though.

[spicy]

colorscheme is

[Kurlon]

It looks like the Fischer Price edition Hyper Motard...

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[GixerJockey]

I like it. the color can easily be changed. They did a nice job with the conversion.

[CEO]

Looks kinda cool I think.

Rake looks less steep than other tards/hypers/etc to me

[Puppet]

I saw it this past weekend in Chicago. I really liked it, especially compared to the stock bike. I like the color a lot better in person as well

[KillBill]

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Its cool I think...something about the name Gladius sounds cheap

[Woodsy]

i think it looks good for a naked bike (aside from the color) but it really doesn't say hypermotard to me. the rear fairing is too sport bike and the forks are raked a little too far forward which makes the fork protectors look weird. ducati did it right and if suzuki could change just a couple of things on it and manage to keep the price point below 8 or 9k then this thing will be a runaway hit in the Foux-motard world.

[schleppy]

I think that bike is 80% there. I wish Suzuki would update the DR-Z with some more modern bits.

[Pittenger5]

The exhaust looks ridiculous, just looks like a giant hoop. Id look better under slung or under tail I think

[SVRACER01]

its just the angle. thats how the SV exhaust is. i dont think the gladius is gonna "replace" the SV though

[AimlessMoto]

Very, very nice indeed.

I highly doubt the Gladious would replace the SVs. If anything, maybe a badge swap or something... like, SVG650... Or SG650V... instead of "Gaydious" (gay means glad... look it up).

But suzuki doesn't really let much die unless it's a complete flop. There's more a chance of the Gladius going 5 years and being dropped completely then there are of the SVs being discontinued in the next decade.

I dunno, I wish they just did these cosmetic "upgrades" to the SV650 non-fairing AS the Gladius, and have the SV650SF stand alone with the SV1000SF unchanged.

I dunno.. just MHO.

OH.. that, and what's with the color schemes? Powder Blue and White or Black on Black... WTF?!?! Why not I dunno, Red on Silver.. or Orange on Black, or I dunno... Maybe they're trying to denounce the fact that it looks like a Monster and a Duke made a baby by using totally odd-ball colors.

[butcher bergs]

Whatever the paint scheme is, it's definitely a sponsor for some race team.....maybe WSBK? I'm certain I've seen that color and logo on some racing machine.

[butcher bergs]

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