First Track Bike: sv vs SS

[Monsterlover]

pretty cool

[NekkedChic]

here is a couple of my old pics of my Monster track pregnant dog...

Fall of '06



Spring of '07



and I have some more on another computer...the bike has since changed looks again though...

MY HERO!!  Are those rearsets stock?  Look further back. MORE PLEASE? Got vid?  I wanna be YOU when I grow up! 

[zooom]

in the 1st pic, the rearsets are stock...in the 2nd pic are CycleCat's and that is what is currently on the bike, although the passenger peg hangers/fixed position crash sliders portion is now gone as I went to a high mount exhaust that wouldn't work with the CC back half of the rearsets as a whole....so I have the front only and I have them adjusted upwards and back a smidge from stock position for clearance.

as far as Vid...unfortunately I have none...as of this point...

[2001cromo]

My girlfriend and I started doing track days on our Monsters a few years ago. It was fine to start, but we quickly wanted other bikes for track days.

We ended up getting SV650's for the track (here's a link to one of em) and ran those the last year or 2 and now are moving on/up to i4's. 

This is my girl's (Industrialgrrrl) blog about it so far:

http://industrialgrrrl.blogspot.com/

I know we've got more pictures/videos of the different bikes at the track, but that blog's got a bunch.

The main reason we stopped tracking the Monsters was cause we invested waaaaay too much time/effort into trashing them... plus they were not the greatest to hustle around a track sometimes... <-- don't get me wrong they're still a ton of fun, but you get spoiled by the current crop or true sportbikes abilities.

[caperix]

I run Jap. bikes at the track because replacement parts are usualy cheaper.  The SV makes a good track bike but you will max out the stock suspension quickly.  I rode a friends with heavier fork oil, a 636 shock & pilot races & was horified by the front tire skiping at turn 4 of RRR.  I currently ride a RC51 at the track but am thinking of switching to a SV650, I am tired of killing a set of tires every track day.