Hey guys, got another “RED” SVTC owner (akf15e) who had joined the forum! Hey Rich, I guess your gray one IS going to be unique!
Let’s make sure to welcome him!
Let’s make sure to welcome him!
I hear ya Joe. Think parking is a problem, wait till we show up EN MASS at a gathering!Not AGAIN?!?!?!?!? It' already hard enough now in this forum to find a freakin' SVTC PARKING SPACE! /forums/images/smilies/wink.gifHey guys, got another “RED” SVTC owner (akf15e) who had joined the forum! Hey Rich, I guess your gray one IS going to be unique!
Let’s make sure to welcome him!
Congrats to akf15e! YOU.....---->"chose wisely".... /forums/images/smilies/smile.gif
Show us a pic, of what acc's you have loaded your baby up with....inquiring minds wish to know, lol!
...oh...and you have to NAME (like they do a ship when champagne is splashed over the bow...) your ride....that is our unique SVTC/Eluder Forum tradition...gives your bike, personality. Our SVTC is named, Charlotte, after my dear late mother. Go to town...think up a name to make your ride unique, and for your own background reasons....it's fun...and we all are starting to identify with those names...for Chief's SVTC is named; Big Red, who started this thread. GARider's is named Night Fury. We think he only rides at night....to evade the cops and their radar revenue machines...! /forums/images/smilies/wink.gif
Joe
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL--------------------------------LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL-------------------------------------LOLOLOLOLOLOLI hear ya Joe. Think parking is a problem, wait till we show up EN MASS at a gathering!
I love the growth though.
SVTC’s are IN THE HOUSE baby! ?
In case you hadn’t noticed, we’ve had a couple other migrate from the other “dead” forum over to here. It’s like VEGAS baby! You go where the ACTION is!
I think I was spot on, when I described the performance of the SVTC's 113 C.I. V-Twin as compared to a high performance diesel engine. They break in very slowly, (I mean to see full torque performance, not parts spec'ed mated to run at the full rpm range), and you can run commercial grade diesel engines out to 35000-45000 miles before you even see max performance from the slow revolution engine. I have noticed as I am nearing 9,000 miles that truly, there is more performance not only in the T-Mode that I usually run at, but man oh man...when I now tap into S-Mode, this motorcycle HAULS A**!Switch to SPORT mode, roll on the throttle and it’s like hitting the afterburner on the Eagle! ZOOM!!
ROCK ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I think I was spot on, when I described the performance of the SVTC's 113 C.I. V-Twin as compared to a high performance diesel engine. They break in very slowly, (I mean to see full torque performance, not parts spec'ed mated to run at the full rpm range), and you can run commercial grade diesel engines out to 35000-45000 miles before you even see max performance from the slow revolution engine. I have noticed as I am nearing 9,000 miles that truly, there is more performance not only in the T-Mode that I usually run at, but man oh man...when I now tap into S-Mode, this motorcycle HAULS A**!
I can easily, with my wife aboard, and all three compartments peaked out, EASILY, enter S-Mode, and if I bury the throttle, can EASILY pass one tractor trailer, and three or four cars either ahead of it, or behind it, on any two lane, WITH,...viewing an opposing direction traffic out in the distance. Easily...this bike has such deep grunt torque, it can simply take your breath away....in that the passing power is being provided by two cylinders, abet,massive ones....but still...I do not miss, at all, having a 6 cylinder engine that was in the Goldwing, vs. the V-Twin, twin cylinders. No sir!
I have equal performance...in the real world, where it all matters...passing, overtaking other traffic, a fast crisp merging onto the highway...all of it, WITH---> a 33 percent gain in MPG, over our 2008 GL1800!!! Two up....three luggage compartments packed for whatever...weekend, or extended. No matter....the SVTC seems daily, to be sharper on the throttle, faster acceleration, and yet...SMOOTHER, in its delivery, where it was already smooth, (no high pitched, high RPM vibration felt in any part of your body)...but only the power pulse 'tap' slightly felt in the feet and butt, which is most welcomed. It actually FEELS good, like a massage that isn't...
The decibel level of that great exhaust note, climbed and peaked at around 3,000 miles, and has not gotten any louder. The tone is so cool, that NONE of my riding friends, want to actually pass me/us. They like to be in the envelope of those twin mufflers...which even to this day, is a wonderment. Nobody passes us! So...now I simply take the lead out of a gas station, or restaurant. Nobody...passes us....lol. If that isn't a supreme compliment to the work that Yamaha Sound Studios contributed...well, I don't know what could BE a better compliment than that....I have BMW's, Honda Goldwings, Yamaha Expedition type bikes (don't recall our friend's true model name...but the one with the metal square box luggage), and none of those riders, on those machines, now want to take the lead. Yamaha Sound...man, did you do a great job of tuning the baffles in the labs...a great job!
My hands got tapping here...coffee fueled, but this was just a latest 'observance' in owning and running this fine Grand Tour motorcycle. The engine (on my bike) is certainly STILL performance breaking in,...and giving out more, and more performance, in subtle ways...smoother, faster uptake of speed, all of it. Just...like a commercial diesel engine...this engine needs 8,000 to 10,000 miles on it, city and highway operation to even BE, considered a fully mature break in. That has been my experience in ownership. One word....-----> Wow!
Joe