Now how fashionable are the decreased low-media models, we want to review the history of Suzuki SV400 and its sports variant, the SV400S. Two mounts for the Japanese market that, between 1998 and 2006, the Hamamatsu firm made available to all fans who were looking for an excellent relationship between fun and versatility, thanks to a perfect balance between weight and power.
Suzuki Sv400: two versions under the same philosophy
Like all good “oil” should know, the Japanese market is subject to a series of regulations and regulations that have given rise to specific categories, where the models of medium and low displacement have become in recent decades in the star products of the brands that are marketed there. Especially the naked and sports of 250 and 400 cc, with motor motors and 4 cylinders of high performance.
This is the case of our protagonists today, the SV400 (Naked version) and SV400S, in the image and likeness of the SV650 that was marketed in Europe. Both were launched to the market in the 1998 season and, unlike most of their contemporary rivals, Suzuki chose to set up a Bicilindrical engine in V of 90 degrees. We talked about a water -cooled water -cooled propeller, with 8 valve butts and fed by 2 Mikuni BDSR36 carburetors.
The result of this mechanical algarabía was a final power of 53 hp at 10,500 rpm and 41 nm of maximum torque at 8,000 lapswith a self -limited peak speed at 180 km/h. For the cycle part, Suzuki resorted to an exclusive aluminum tubular chassis, achieving a dry final weight of alone 164 kg In the Roadster variant and 168 kilos in the S. version, it also had a 41 mm telescopic fork, an independent rear shock and a brake album per axle.
For the year 2000, the SV400S would add a second album to the front train, something that would not happen in the SV400 until the 2003 season. In this way, greater precision was achieved in the braking that was also complemented with the arrival of a adjustable fork in that same year 2003. All this was combined with the simplicity and efficiency that characterizes the SV saga, adding that plus of sports 400 cc that Japanese fans could enjoy.
Today, more than a quarter of a century after its launch, the SV400 in any of its versions, has become the object of desire of all those lovers of this type of mounts.
As with other competition models, the two Benjaminas of Suzuki have earned that fame of motorcycles for everything, but above all to offer entertainment mountains and sensations when used for what were truly designed: pilot.
