2002 SV650 build -patr 2

As seen above, the swingarm that came on these bikes is boxy and plain. With the curvy tube frame and body lines this bike has it just never jived with me. So let's change the swinger.

Not so fast hombre. SV650's have a little bit of a challenging arrangement of things. The shock is offset to the left of center and the rear exhaust pipe runs down next to it through the hole.

The little down spout is what the head pipe attaches to for the rear cylinder.

So I needed something that would allow me to (hopefully) not have to cut off the top shock mount or have to make some crazy and inevitably ugly rear exhaust pipe.

So here's what I came up with. Aprilia rsv/tuono 99-03 model year.

Has the shock mount offset to the left. And I believe the pipe runs through the hole like mine.

By luck the pivot bolts are the same diameter. An aprilia bearing on the aprilia's pivot first, then on the sv's pivot.

Well things can't be that bolt in ya' know...

The pivot is wider than the sv's. By, well more than a bit

So a logical plan was hatched.

Right side has a little meat to grind off before the bearing c-clip groove.

MMk...

Some cast letters and junk sanded out of the way.

And that let me step into the ball park.

So, that's where I left off for now. I need to look at a few things before I go all in and cut off the left and right pivot bosses flush with the frame. I don't want to ruin a frame before I'm 100% sure.

Before I did my swingarm grinding I did a little wood support mock up for you. I think it will look good on there...Got to make this one work.