Opinions on a SV

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by Tsunami

Did you have to do anything major to your SV other than basic maintenance?

Nope

However, after about 18K mine developed a rough vibration at 5K rpm, under hard accel. It vibrated the whole bike. Tried doing valve adj, carb syncs, new chains/sprockets.......Never improved, so I just lived with it. But it was irritating. Might have been an imbalanced clutch basket.