[quote=barnaby33]As to the seating position on the SV, are you sure you aren’t confusing it with the SV650S? True neither has a cruiser seating position, but I thought that the SV650 had a rather standard seat position, as opposed to any of the more rice rocket oriented bikes.
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Both have tallish seat heights, if memory serves. The bars are lower and the pegs are set a little further back on the “S” for a more “sport” oriented riding position.
I’d pretty much call it mandatory that newer riders stick to a seat height that allows them to get the balls of both feet on the ground without stretching.
With more experience, the need goes away. I once saw a very petite woman, no more than 5’2″, very expertly handling a KLR650 (very tall dual sport bike, for those that don’t know). She had to slide halfway off the seat to get a tippy toe on the ground, but often as not she just balanced the thing while slowly creeping forward.
