Visordown Editor Steve Farrell has a 2016 SV650 on long-term loan from Suzuki and he's been comparing it to his own SV650S, which it's replacing in the line-up. So is it a worthy successor? Watch his motovlog report.
The 2016 SV650 isn't quite the bold aluminium-framed naked sportster it was when it first launched, but it's still endowed with a big sense of fun, especially for new riders.
FOLLOWING its release in 1999, it didn’t take long for the SV650 to become one of the pillars of Suzuki’s range and in 2000 it was the second biggest selling bike in Europe (behind the Bandit , no less).