2 Clicks Out: Suzuki SV650 Gen 2 Suspension Upgrade Stages 

Mate stop making me feel guilty about my fork oil that's been in there god knows how long

Some are commenting that the ads are intrusive. Ordinarily I’d agree with, but Dave just gifted us a masterclass in bike suspension tuning - for free to us. So, he needs to get paid, but unlike a lot of egos who are essentially just farting opinions into the net, Dave’s advice is genuinely valuable. Actually, I’d argue it’s priceless. So he deserves to get paid, and paid well. The ads are fine. Now I’m going to watch again. I’m a fast empirical learner, but a slow learner when being taught. Thank you for sharing Dave. Awesome advice.

Thanks Dave for helping so many riders who otherwise might become discouraged due to poor setups. You are a gem among the riding community!

Dave would probably win a CPR chest compressions contest easily

Dave doing his thing. was there at the beginning. Dave has forgotten more about basic suspension tuning that most of know. It aint rocket science but he's brutally honest and focused. And I dig his style.

This man is a treasure and must be protected at all costs.

My first bike back in 06 was a 2004 SV650S. I used it as my primary source of transportation for a few years after buying it. They are great bikes.

Still listening intently, now understand 6% of your daily work. I'm getting there.

To paraphrase Mitch Hedberg: It’s almost like someone tuning an instrument, it is someone tuning an instrument, but it it’s almost like one too.

ooft, could feel the satisfaction in the last rider once bike was dialled in 👍🏻

As a big rider (225lb) on a stock setup Gen2 SV650, these vids are super helpful. Keep em coming.

If you’re reading this Dave I’d like to say you’re a clever bloke I’m guessing to have this knowledge was built up over many years 👏

For my own reference, and people like me. Suspension Upgrade Path: Stage 1 [3:07] Front: Emulators for damping control Rear: Swap shock for full adjustability (and to influence ride height) Stage 2 [6:00] Front: Cartridge kit for rebound and compression control Rear: - Stage 3 [10:42] Front: Swap front end for full adjustability and compatability to radial calipers Rear: - Addition 1 [19:06] Front: - Rear: Increase tire size from 160 to 180 Addition 2 [19:49] Front: Swapped front end with aftermarket valving/cartridges Rear: Aftermarket shock SG

my guy with 80s Vanson leathers, combat boots, and a zx9r shock in his sv650, haha (This comment brought to you by some guy with a zx14 shock in his sv1000.)

Way to go Dave, your the man ! Trusty SV 650 is one of my favorite bikes of all time ! Cheers Buddy Dale !

A vastly underrated bike, which for not much money the suspension and brakes can be upgraded. A properly modded bike is more fun than most stock 1000cc on the track.

There are some amazingly talented experienced people out there. In world of BS little vids like this brings a little happiness. Love from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Mesmerized watching the master work. Love how Dave never comes with an answer out of the box, always looks to rider, conditions and bike....internet opinion jockeys could learn a thing.

This is a great video with a wealth of knowledge.👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽I have learned so much in the past year from watching Dave’s videos. Awesome!

Need a Dave Moss Q&A. I would love to hear how you got started tuning suspensions

I had a beautiful 2006 SV650S that I crashed... I then proceeded to upgrade the bike with a 2007 GSXR-750 front end, steel braided lines and put a 2007 ZX-10R shock. Ended up being one of the best handling bikes I've ever owned.

Best all rounder ever produced!

Can’t say congrats or thanks enough! Love the knowledge! Awesome edit!

We love your enthusiasm and passion and You’re pride in your work.

Awesome video! I work for a suspension company in Germany and I just love watching those videos! We're actually building our own shocks and Cartridge systems if you're interested 😊

excellent knowledge, even experienced mechanics could learn alot from you Dave

Dave Moss never tires of measuring Sag! Thanks for all the hard work Dave!!

makes me soo happy watching

as always .. great tips .. i dont race .. but for daily riding , your vids have helped me allot thank you for uploading

Excellent episode, Sire! Congrats to your well deserved 100k subscribers!

Thanks Dave! I learned more in a half hour than 20 years.

Dave thank you for helping the motorcycling community. It takes dedication and discipline to teach others what the bike is doing with out much rider input and description. The riders are learning and learning about themselves too. Thanks, Al

I might need to facetime you to get my 2018 Aprilia RSV4 dialed in. Thank you for the work you do

Hi dave!im ur subscriber from philippines here and i really learned a lot from ur vlogs.keep it up and a 5 stars from u!!

this guy is incredibly good at his job. amazing stuff

Just started building a Gen2 SV for my youngest son's first track/race bike

This isn’t the first video I’ve seen of you Dave I enjoy watching you teach people about how there bike needs to be for them

Very informative. I will be tuning into more videos. Cheers from Texas

This is very useful. My next bike will get a suspension tune as well as a dyno

My friend, you really know what you do.

This guy knows what's up. True professional

Holy heck, you are amazing my man.

This is absolute suspension masterclass.

Right up there together with the FZ07

Got an 07 SV1000S with dual Yoshis. Sweetest sounding bike I've ever heard.

This is why I’m here!!! 💪

This is magic!

Really informative video! and I don't even have a BIKE! haha thanks Dave

This dude is the suspension wizard

every video i saw from Moss now... is Great! that infos! full of them!

Mr Moss knows more about your safety then you do. Ride safe.

Watching this, I realized I knew nothing about suspension set ups. 😬 I need to figure out how to get my stuff in the ball park

I have a Vstrom 650 with 40K miles on it. It's similar to the SV engine. The previous owner did not change the oil. It was brown when it came out, the engine barely complained. The chain was so loose it was slapping the bike, the bike barely complained as well. Bike is unreal.

Great logical approach to the bike setup. Running out of front end travel in a long fast turn at a race track can be a very un-nerving experience.

I need to get in touch with this guy..bought an 04 sv650 with upgraded gsxr750 front forks & rear shock, also rear swing arm was changed for a 190 tire

Good information, thanks. Would you recommend fitting a 120/70 front tyre as opposed to the stock 120/60

Sort of facinating. Really encouraged to get my 97 Suzuki Bandit 1200 forks and shock in order this winter. Probably all stock stuff that has never seen maintenance. 😬 Great info here, thanks. 👍🙂

3:45 I love that color

i think the spring to soft but to long will go past many! that haven't replaced springs etc. That remark caught me off guard but under a bit of thinking it makes sense. I've been around off-road tuners a bit! never got into "shortening" and its a no brainer that in certain situations that might be a better call, than assuming different weight spring. that's a good one, an actual new one for me! thanks\

Where are you from Dave? This is the first video I’ve watched of yours. Great job 👍

I bet there's never enough of him to go around, this is why we need clones! :D

THIS MAN IS WAY SUPER KOOL . AUL GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!

yeah i have an 07 SV650s and yeah you can really notice how spongey the stock suspension is , its a whole different style of riding from my ZX10R

Impressive Mr. Moss. Taking one look at a part and being able to tell manufacturer and year. Mastery of your craft. Kudos.

Are gold emulators worth it if all I'm doing is commuting and twisties?

that's another way of saying the most underbuilt motorcycle ever just kidding I love SVs, it's my dream commuter

Been watching for a while still no more confident to do my own set up

Congrats for the 100k subscribers! Have you ever tuning the Yamaha TRX 850? I just cannot find it in your videos. It seems to me it has a similar behavior to the sv650... Thanks.

Wounder if Dave has any tips for improving the ride and handling of my Misses

This is doing the very basic setup to get the bike somewhere right to your weight. To do a complete set up you need to ride the bike and really know what needs to be done, or use some advanced matrix mesurment tools. The difference from a good suspension set up to a great one can be a second per lap. I had great set ups perhaps 2 or 3 times during my time of racing, and I wish I would have spent more time learning this art as it makes more of a difference when it comes to lap times then anything else. As Honda says, Power is nothing without controle!

I loved my SV650, awesome bike but I found the riding position a short for me, after 20 minutes I'd lose feeling in my legs which was nice... 🤣

I've just ordered a set of Misano cartridges for my sv. Unfortunately they can't tell me which specific oil to use, only 10w, which we know can be all over the place. Where do you think is a good place to start, considering I can go (in theory) from 5 to 115 cSt. I wanted to say thank you for your videos, both on RU-vid and on your website, they helped me a lot in trying to figure out what's wrong with my setup!

I have a 2015 Ducati hypermotard and wish for u to give me some advice on my rear suspension I think it need’s adjusting

dont let dave know that i never changed my fork oil in 50.000 km

Great video Dave! Thanks for making it available! I'm looking to replace my cbr600rr with a current gen sv650 as my daily commuter. Used to have an 06 with a gsxr fork swap and ohlins 30mm cartridge kit and loved the way it handled. My question is this: how much better would a gsxr front end with an aftermarket cartridge be than the stock forks with an aftermarket cartridge (just saw that ohlins makes one) now that the stock forks have four pot calipers? In other words, could I get close to the performance of a fork swap by just installing a cartridge kit and some better pads and lines? I also plan on replacing the shock. Not interested in emulators. Most of my riding is on the street with occasional track days. Thanks!

I am slowly understanding the science behind suspensionography, just..... I need to get my suspension sorted on my ZX14R

Dave, I need your help. How do I measure sag correctly? At 6:30 in this video, you measured it by comparing the bike under its own weight, with the rider on the bike. In another video you asked Dave Williams to pick the back of the bike up (but not into the air). Recently I've watched an old Keith Code video on sag, in which levers the back of the bike into the air via the kickstand. Which method is correct?

i was in assen junoir track two weeks ago and my michelin road 5 even have some slight bleu on them only a tiny bit was 30c in the shade we where in the sun so they got hot and was riding stock mt 07 so bad shoks in the front and low ground clearance scraping pegs lol buit if i see bleu i think it got to hot?

I don’t understand most of what Dave is saying, but I nod and agree

I have a Nitron rear and uprated k-tech springs on my series 2 (k3). The back end is good; the OE was a limiting factor when the speed went up on track. I'm sure the forks are still the weakness with lack of adjustment and crude action with a damping rod. I don't want to transplant forks. Is the Adriani kit a good buy?

I wish I had a Great time my first time out like these gentlemen. Wow! The community is tight but there are some mid tier bikers that just make you not want to go back because they want les traffic to feel faster

whats going on with that rear brake on that yellow bike? I guess it's like an unsprung weight thing if you don't use the rear brake

The video soinds awesome, but I am lost! 😆

I wish I know more of the #23 bike build.

A perfect tuner... No magic mushroom bullshit or fat fingered guessing. Kudos

Hello, first and all I love your chanel. I have sv 650 2003 gen. Changed last year suspension (front andreani cartridge fully customised and rear yss fully customised shock). I didnt checked sag when I changed it and I was lift rear suspension by 0.5 cm or more. One day in corner cca 100 kmh I had speed woble from front end to rear and crash. Later I put the suspension on the lowest setting. The previous owner put 180 55 rear tyre so rear end of bike is higher with this setup because front is 120 60 r17 stock. Should I change maybe front tyre to 120 70 r17 because to put front end higher and enable future speed woble and crashes, watched motorcycle like gsxr 600 and 1000 and they have rear 180 60 the front is 120 70 not 120 60, thanks.

i want stiff slow rebound and soft fast and slow compression at rear and front mid compression and mid high slow stiff rebound. 1, it prevents diving and doing unwanted stoppies, decreased stop time and more grip while braking. it also prevents the bike from doing wheelies. now on cornering high speeds, heh on a public road that is 99 percent never the case.

I have sv650. I want to change my rare shock adsorber from stock to something good. How to choose from what? Kawa? Gsxr? What MY?

I shit you not I literally started researching this yesterday haha. I currently have a cbr500r road bike, and I'm considering turning it into a track bike vs buying an sv650 for the same purpose.

guy with yellow sv... how on earth were you let in to leguna seca with combat boots??

The bike with twin exhausts at Laguna was an SV1000 😁

Ok so, going to put cartridges on the front and a surrogate shock on the rear. When will Dave be in the UK? I'll need a set up.

Gen 1 owner and on the heavy side...I need to find some help in the Denver area! Oh, and yeah...my fork oil is probably a decade old.

Never been to track is this an extra or do it come with the initial pay?

Sorry but i can totally see him restricting and helping the movement of the suspension! Not doubting his knowledge of suspension and tyres.

4th time i watch this video and i just noticed the honey bottle on the rear in 20:57, why is that there?!

Hey Dave. With the stage 3 rider who had his 2cts at 27F and 32R you said he should be running a minimum of 32 F&R for 2cts but when you gave him adjustments to make after tuning the suspension you said +3F and +1R. Which would only put the front at 30F. Is this because you don't want to make to dramatic a change on tyre pressure after making changes to suspension so the rider can getting better feedback from the suspension changes? Cheers.

Where are you located

does anyone know where he got those tankgrips 1:56?

This was awesome Dave and editor guy, Two Clicks out: a Disney SV650 Movie