Martin.UK
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I'm going to start the rebuild of my wife little Sv650s.
I was ment to have started this last year but i had a heart attact in October.
I now suffer with AF, and getting the get up and go to start this project has been hard as its a full repair, rebuild and repaint.
The story behind this rebuild was my wife was forced off a roundabout by a 4x4 that did not stop and she went into the side of a van head-on.
My wife was not going to ride again after this, but still wanted her little Sv back
I bought the bike back from the insurance company and have now got all the parts to repair and rebuild it.
In was classed as a insurance loss category N (non-structural).
The Sv was a 1999/V reg with only 7,000 miles on it. I bought it off my MOT guy brother. It was yellow originally, but my wife loves the colour Purple.
I had to replace the fuel tank as it was to far gone to repair. found a really good tank on eBay for £100.
So Before i would let the wife ride it i went over it and replaced everything that i knew would need sorting and replacing. I also upgraded the reg/rec from one off a Honda CBF1000. She used it then for a couple of months till winter. Then over the winter i repainted it Purple for her and did the wheels, fork bottoms and rear hangers Silver. The bike was looking really good and the wife loved it.
Ok, lets get back to the rebuild. As i said i was able to buy all the parts i needed to repair the bike, even another pair of lower fairings. I was also able to find a HPi clear frame to rebuild it on to so it was not be an insurance loss repair once done. The new frame is only 19 days older than my wife bike. I paid top money for the frame which was £200 ($270 USD) as most were selling for less than half that. The reason i paid so much for the frame was it has less than 1000 miles on it, and the only record of its milage is the service book with the 600 mile first service done. I spoke to the first owner of the bike and he told me he had scared himself on it one day and put the bike away never to ride it again. Years went by and the first owner was moving so needed it gone. It was then sold to the guy i bought the frame off who broke it for part. When i bought the frame i got all the paperwork for the bike, i mean everything which was a plus in my book.
So my wife does not want this bike to use, she just wants to keep it like i am doing with my Red Kawasaki ZX9R.
I know i will be making this bike look better than new. But i want to change a couple of things, which i dont know if i should.
I'm keeping the bike its original colour which was Black (that was the colour of the bike the frame was from). But i want to paint the frame, Wheels, fork lowers, Hangers (front & rear) and swinging arm Black aswell. Should i do this or leave them the standard OEM colours ?. I am so on the fence about this. I know it would look better all Black, But the future value of the bike makes me think to keep them the OEM colour. Would it put you off buying a bike with these colour changes.
Here are some photos of the SV before and after its repaint and after the crash. There is also one of the bike the frame was from as well.
I was ment to have started this last year but i had a heart attact in October.
I now suffer with AF, and getting the get up and go to start this project has been hard as its a full repair, rebuild and repaint.
The story behind this rebuild was my wife was forced off a roundabout by a 4x4 that did not stop and she went into the side of a van head-on.
My wife was not going to ride again after this, but still wanted her little Sv back
I bought the bike back from the insurance company and have now got all the parts to repair and rebuild it.
In was classed as a insurance loss category N (non-structural).
The Sv was a 1999/V reg with only 7,000 miles on it. I bought it off my MOT guy brother. It was yellow originally, but my wife loves the colour Purple.
I had to replace the fuel tank as it was to far gone to repair. found a really good tank on eBay for £100.
So Before i would let the wife ride it i went over it and replaced everything that i knew would need sorting and replacing. I also upgraded the reg/rec from one off a Honda CBF1000. She used it then for a couple of months till winter. Then over the winter i repainted it Purple for her and did the wheels, fork bottoms and rear hangers Silver. The bike was looking really good and the wife loved it.
Ok, lets get back to the rebuild. As i said i was able to buy all the parts i needed to repair the bike, even another pair of lower fairings. I was also able to find a HPi clear frame to rebuild it on to so it was not be an insurance loss repair once done. The new frame is only 19 days older than my wife bike. I paid top money for the frame which was £200 ($270 USD) as most were selling for less than half that. The reason i paid so much for the frame was it has less than 1000 miles on it, and the only record of its milage is the service book with the 600 mile first service done. I spoke to the first owner of the bike and he told me he had scared himself on it one day and put the bike away never to ride it again. Years went by and the first owner was moving so needed it gone. It was then sold to the guy i bought the frame off who broke it for part. When i bought the frame i got all the paperwork for the bike, i mean everything which was a plus in my book.
So my wife does not want this bike to use, she just wants to keep it like i am doing with my Red Kawasaki ZX9R.
I know i will be making this bike look better than new. But i want to change a couple of things, which i dont know if i should.
I'm keeping the bike its original colour which was Black (that was the colour of the bike the frame was from). But i want to paint the frame, Wheels, fork lowers, Hangers (front & rear) and swinging arm Black aswell. Should i do this or leave them the standard OEM colours ?. I am so on the fence about this. I know it would look better all Black, But the future value of the bike makes me think to keep them the OEM colour. Would it put you off buying a bike with these colour changes.
Here are some photos of the SV before and after its repaint and after the crash. There is also one of the bike the frame was from as well.
