Hi everyone I'm Jason. I am new owner of a 96 Savage. Im here to get help whenever something goes wrong with my bike and to see what everyone else is doing with theres. Hope a lot of my question can be answered.

Thanks in advance

Hey everyone! I've been looking at this site for a few months now and have received a dramatic amount of help and info from it. Thought I would join and thank you for it.

I live in north west Georgia in a small town called Rome.  Let me know if you are near, I work in a bike shop so I may be able to get you parts cheap!

Got a 2006 S40 with 1,600 miles on it now. 17/43 chain conversion, modified the battery box with a shorter battery and now store the tool kit in the air box. Found an old Harley muffler in my collection and kind of noodles it I. there as well untill I find a suitable replacement. Swapped out to an old headlight bezel as a replacement one was $160 from Suzuki. Next it a cast wheel conversion. None of this would have been possible whiteout the information on this site. Thank you.

Posted to RSD forum before I realized this was here. Deleted that thread.

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Greetings, good people! Well, I am the proud owner of a 2003 Savage, as of two days ago. 6,590 mi. at purchase.  The bike was purchased for my wife, though I'll be riding it as well.

We are both nearly 40 and just started riding two years ago, despite both of us wanting to for many years. Time, money, space restrictions... you know how it goes. We both passed MSF BRC and I picked up a 1994 Yamaha Seca II (XJ600). Not long after, she decided on a scooter - a 2013 Honda PCX-150 that she loved. Back in 2002 she spent three weeks in Viet Nam and fell in love with the scooter culture.

Well, she had some difficulties last year so we ended up selling her steed, much to our chagrin. Things are looking up though, so recently she's been asking me about bikes. Naturally, I went window shopping like crazy.   We looked at a Sportster 883: too heavy. I also checked out a very nice Honda Shadow RS: similar story, though I liked it a lot. It was also more money than we cared to spend. Then a couple of 250s, including a V-star and GZ250. (No TU250Xs popped up near me recently - those I do like.)

This one bike kept popping up on Craigslist... the S40. A few examples. I checked one out, a 2009 in that pink/white combo. We both liked it, but though the ad said "slight right peg damage," it wasn't rideable. The next day, something promising popped up... a 2003. Quite a bit less money, too. So, we checked it out!

The owner bought it 12-18 months ago from someone who gave up on it. The carb was cleaned, front brake pads replaced, front tire replaced. Started and ran fine - his wife used it, until recently when she changed her mind; up for sale it went. A few days later, we pulled the trigger.

It's a little rough around the edges, but not too bad. Looks like it was stored outside (two owners previous), as there's some surface rust on a few of the chrome parts, as well as the mirrors - I'll be replacing those pretty quickly. Found this forum and discovered that 2004 introduced a newer style mirror; the Bikemaster replicas run about $20/ea. at the cheapest online price I could find. The inside of the tool cover is pretty rusted too, there's also no tool kit.

(I'm open to suggestions on a good tool set to purchase for the bike - opinion here seems to lean toward non-OEM since they aren't great anyway. Fine by me!)

Plans for the bike? I'll be doing the white spacer carb mod I read about here, and may look into an exhaust next Spring... but not yet. My wife hasn't ridden for over a year, so I'll be starting her off slowly with what few warm-ish days we have left here in southern Pennsylvania.

Here's a few shots of the bike. The two from the previous owner:





And a few quick cellphone shots in my garage, pardon the mess!







Paint's pretty good, just a few small chips.





Every bike needs a stablemate! I'm planning a naked conversion for this one, with help from the fine FAQs on XJRider.com:





So, that's that.   I'm an old forum hound, always good to find another respectable one!

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Drestakil wrote on 10/03/15 at 09:02:50:


Thanks! The Seca is great. I dropped it at the bottom of my driveway early on, so the fairing has a chunk missing at a corner but I've always wanted to convert it to an XJ600N anyway.

The TU would be fun as a thumper but I'd personally love say a TU500X or TU650X even as a twin.

dshort1 wrote on 10/06/15 at 22:28:19:


Where you are, I'm sure there's some folks! Welcome, I just got here too.  

Hi, I'm new to this site and just wanted to introduce myself.  I have a lot of experience with motorcyles and have a past history of racing quads.  My experience has always been 2 stroke ATV and dirt bikes and I have always had a motorcycle of some type, I get board quickly so I go through them.  I have built several cafe's and a recently built a bobber.

I bought this 97 Savage from my brother in law two years ago and only wanted it as a gas saver.  I didn't have any intensions of doing much more, however two years later I find myself tinkering with it and currently building a café with it (not a ryca).  I will be doing some other mods to it as well and planned to share those while the process is happening.  

I came across this site will researching café conversions and really enjoyed what I saw.  There seems to be a lot of talent.

New member from Riverside Ca here although I thought I was a member back in the late '90s and 2000's before I sold my Savage.
Anyway I've riding since 1970 and have had just about every kind of bike.
I sold my '87 Savage in 2005 and now I'm looking for another.

I've missed out on a couple nice prospects but I'm sure something will be coming up for sale one of these days.

I'll post some pics of my 87 over in the picture thread.