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PostPosted: 12:38 - 21 May 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
I've ridden both the MT-07 and SV650. Bone-stock the brakes are definitely better on the Yamaha but then engine's feels much more lively.

For commuting I'd say the SV650 - more sedate and consistent - but beyond that definitely the MT-07.
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PostPosted: 22:12 - 25 May 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
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With an SV650, I could use the engine in my lawnmower I suppose, so they aren't totally awful. Just totally awful as a motorcycle.

Like Marge, I also did this almost 20 years ago, when affordable middleweight bikes weren't really a thing (it was sports bikes or fuck off) so it was a choice between SV650 or an older design of 500 twin. These days, and for the last 10 years or so, every manufacturer does a middleweight bike or two. Maybe not Suzuki, I don't know if they still exist.
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PostPosted: 23:38 - 25 May 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Robby wrote:
Maybe not Suzuki, I don't know if they still exist.


They do, and they make some good bikes. It's just their R&D budget is now the same as that of Tunnocks Tea cakes rather than, say, BMW, Ducati, Honda, Yamaha or Kawasaki.
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PostPosted: 03:49 - 26 May 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
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I've also used a GPZ500 for a few years and found it comfortable but boring


I owned a GPZ500 for a while, and a first gen SV650.

Personally I preferred the GPZ to the SV. The GPZ had to be ridden hard to get the best out of it but it felt great to do so, it came alive at the top of the rev range. I didn't ride the SV much to be fair, but the times I did I always felt like it ran out of revs without ever doing much, it was quick enough, almost certainly quicker than the GPZ, but the engine just felt a bit.... flat.

My personal favourite bike for fun commuting was probably the Fazer 6, mine was an early box-eye which wouldn't be ULEZ compliant, but I understand the second gen were also excellent. I'd take one over an SV any day. MT-07 looks fun, never ridden one, personally I'd still lean towards a Fazer.
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