yea, I rode it up. took like a week off from work, and just headed out. That bike is sick, its great on the highway, but its geared really low, so theres lots of torque down low, and the suspension has got about a foot of travel, even on nasty ass back roads, you can haul ass and its pretty smooth. He had well over 250,000 on his SV. He rides year round, all over the country. he bought a SV1000 two years ago, the SV's are great bikes.