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Custom Savage vs sr400/500
03/23/20 at 19:53:57

I see a lot of sr400's and 500's done in Japan and Thailand. Why don't we see more savage's done bobber or cafe style? Both are singles and fun bikes. There were 400's available in both countries so I don't think it was a cc restriction.
I think these are easier to build than the Yamaha's but not
more are featured.

I put some cool ones that I have found does anyone have others?

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Re: Custom Savage vs sr400/500
Reply #8 - 03/24/20 at 05:01:11

The SR500 was an outstanding standard. Being a standard it lends itself to an easy conversion to a cafe racer. The SR400 shares the same frame configuration, but unfortunately it doesn’t share the pizazz of the 500.

The Savage can be converted to a cafe racer, but it takes a bit of effort, certainly extra effort than a standard. It’s easily converted to a bobber.

I see a lot of bobber and cafe conversations of the Savage. A quick look in the custom build section shows many examples of both. There are hundreds of RYCA cafe racer conversions, check out the rycamotors website for some incredible bikes.

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Reply #9 - 03/24/20 at 05:46:38

My good friend raced an SR500, which I did stupid amounts of work on. Good news is that the motor can produce much more power than a Savage. At 560cc with a lot of cool parts, we had 52 HP at the rear wheel. And there are 600cc kits out there.
Bad news is that its a non-counterbalanced single. Shakes like hell. Prob why the frame is more butch. And it's a dry sump motor, so more plumbing. also, kick start only, which gets old with a kick only high compression single.

The SR starts out much heavier than the Savage, and I doubt you could get one down to 300 lbs like a heavily breathed on Savage.
But the wheels are more normal size and the chassis geometry is basically Standard, so you can make a cafe racer a bit easier.
Chose the Savage for the weight, counterbalancer, E-start, and the belt drive. Target HP is 40, well shy of the 52 we had on our SR. In the end, smooth and light was more important to me.

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Armen Serious Thumper Offline Half-Witted Wrench-Jockey from Jersey Posts: 1454	Re: Custom Savage vs sr400/500 Reply #10 - 03/24/20 at 05:47:34 Mine
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Gary_in_NJ Serious Thumper Offline LS650 Cafe Racer Posts: 2642 Amongst the Twisty Roads	Re: Custom Savage vs sr400/500 Reply #11 - 03/24/20 at 05:51:57 Lookin good Armen.
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Armen Serious Thumper Offline Half-Witted Wrench-Jockey from Jersey Posts: 1454	Re: Custom Savage vs sr400/500 Reply #12 - 03/24/20 at 06:32:09 Thanks Gary!
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srinath Serious Thumper Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 5349	Re: Custom Savage vs sr400/500 Reply #13 - 03/24/20 at 07:05:23 Armen wrote on 03/24/20 at 05:47:34: Mine You're killing me - that's a $1300 aluminum tank isn't it ? How does it clear the forks at lock. Cool. Srinath.
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