So I came to the track to pick up a $20 rain suit from Denno....

[Fitz]

...and went home with a $2,500 SV from Christ Whitman... and the rain suit too.

A "2 hour trip to Loudon" on mothers day turned into a bit more than that after seeing the SV for sale near the cafe. I've been looking for a race bike for a bit and had been trying to figure out just what organs I needed to sell to afford Denno's sweet kawi that he has for sale. I don't know too much about the SV and if you folks are at all familiar with the bike I'd appreciate any information I could get.

What I do know:
2000 SV650
Woodcraft clip-ons, woodcraft rearsets, woodcraft sliders, M4 exhaust from five star manufacturing, vortex gas cap, sharkskinz body, Penske rear shock (double adjustable I think), front forks have a TL conversion (which I'm still researching). Both the front and rear suspension was rebuilt by the GMD Computrack folks out of Boston in '06 although I briefly spoke with Mike from the NY store when I was looking at the bike.

I'm going to maintain my current plan/schedule and hope to have the bike ready to go for some track days later this year. The body work is from a different bike ad has some holes and repair patches that will need to be fixed. Front spring is a 90kg and rear is a 600 pound rear spring (eibach still labels their springs in pounds right?). I think that's a bit light for my 190 pound FA so they'll probably be sent off to GMD for a rebuild and maybe some new springs. For right now I need to continue amassing gear and degreasing the rig. Eventually I'll sit down and figure out where the TL front suspension put me classwise.

Fitz

PS. Thanks again Denno. The rain suit fits albeit a bit snug.

[Pittenger5]

Oh man, thats a NASTY bike. If I had the money I woulda bought it off him. Good luck with it.

[XVTer]

Cool!

[RyanNicholson]

i dont know the bike specifically but knowing Chris...I'm sure that bike is set up pretty well. Congrats buddy!

[Paul_E_D]

Smooth move! You won't regret it. It's a fun bike.

[Evil_Weasel]

see, some one should warn people about "just going to the track to hang out"

once i went to just hang around and spectate...i was back with a race bike and signed up for penguin the next month.

apparently you just bought a kick ass race bike you had no idea you needed till you saw it... awesome.

how long before the track sucks in it's next victim?

[Crash Dummy Denno]

PS. Thanks again Denno. The rain suit fits albeit a bit snug.

you're welcome - I'm very sorry I couldn't give you some time - let me know if you have any problems - snug is usually better, but you should be able to move freely!

see you at the track - now go sign up for tonys

Denno