Streetfighter SVs.
Suzuki's SV650 is the tabula rasa of modern motorcycles, the rare bike with the ability to be anything to anyone--sport riders, commuters, racers and even touring riders dig the little 'Zook that could.
Clean, naked styling also makes it prime for customizing, as illustrated here by these two tweaked SVs from Petaluma, California custom house Motomorphic. The blue bike is SV up front and everything else in the rear.
Clean, naked styling also makes it prime for customizing, as illustrated here by these two tweaked SVs from Petaluma, California custom house Motomorphic. The blue bike is SV up front and everything else in the rear.
The Motomorphic crew started with a cast-off Honda RC30 swingarm, which, after 20 hours of fabbing, was mated with the SV frame. The rear wheel comes from a Ducati 916, and the crowning feature is the MV Agusta F4 tail section and quad-mufflers. The bike is still in progress--currently under development is a one-off, MV-style carbon-fiber tank and MV upper fairing and headlight, too.
Photo: Motomorphic
The orange bike, on the other hand, is straight-up streetfighter. This one also features a single-sided swingarm adaptation, this time using Honda VFR parts. The front end is from a '98 GSX-R 750 (with Race- Tech internals), and the SV Fighter also runs an Ohlins shock and SharkSkinz aluminum subframe with solo tail. The motor is mostly stock save for Keihin flat-slide carbs and a Motomorphic-bent exhaust system capped with a pair of SuperTrapp mufflers from a Yamaha YZ426 dirt bike
