Advantages: Brilliant first / budget bike, sporty all rounder, mid-range grunt, cheap
Disadvantages: Budget suspension, budget feel

...I passed my Direct Access test in 2002, and was looking for a newbie friendly bike to get some miles under my belt, and do the commuting to work. Having no prior experience, I needed a user friendly bike with a bit of poke to keep me interested. The logical choice was the Suzuki SV650. Dubbed by RiDE magazine as the best first bike ever, and lauded by many other mags as a great budget bike, I had to find out more. The bike is light 170kg, has 70bhp, and a good spread of torque from low down. It comes as a naked bike the SV650 and a half faired 's' version. These differ slightly in foot peg and handlebar positioning, the former having normal bars, the latter clip-ons and rear set pegs. Both have good ground clearance. I bought my SVs (half faired) used, a W plate with 8k on the clock. Over the next two years I put on 22k miles... Read review

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Advantages: Fast and Furious meets MR smoothie
Disadvantages: Not a lot

...I own a 2002 SV650s and i must say that the bike cant be praised enough in my opion. The SV650 is the new kid on the block and you wont go far wrong if you buy one.The SV650 is fast becoming one of the best middleweight bikes around and deservedly so. With the V at an angle of 90 degrees there is plenty of torque on tap and plenty of acceleration when required. The SV650 produces about 70BHP at the back wheel at it lays it on the tarmac with greatest of ease.The best part of the range is from 3rd gear thru to 5 th gear when you can really feel the bike getting the power down and hear the roar of the exhaust at full bore. The SV650 weighs 165kg(363lbs)so it is fairly light compared to other bikes in its class.The ground clearance is 140mm(5.5in)so you REALLY can get your knee down if you want. The SV650 is only 750mm(29.5in... Read review

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Advantages: Small, versatile, multi-functional, high-quality, user friendly, simple.
Disadvantages: Video and picture quality, menu format, complicated to connect to PC.

...The Panasonic D-Snap SV-AS3 is an MP3 player, a digital camera and a digital video camera. It has a compact, smooth and simple design with five buttons on the back and two on the side. The tracker ball on the back provides quick and easy access in the menu and makes the D-Snap very durable. It has no moving parts and so can stand a little rough handling. The pictures are of medium quality, if viwed on the relatively large screen they are perfectly visable but when enlarged to a computer monitor size they become quite pixelated. The video quality is much the same and I recommend only viewing the videos on the D-Snap screen. The menu leaves much to be desired, although simple and quite user-friendly it lacks style. A major drawback is that the music lists cannot be edited on the D-Snap nor can they be accessed while music is playing... Read review

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Advantages: Sound
Disadvantages: None

...The pioneer sv-50 satellite speaker/subwoofer package, each of the five channels of satellite speakers produce 100Watts and the subwoofer punches out a very nice thumping 110Watts of power. Onto the speakers... here we have 100Watts x 5 all five channels produce an excellent crystal clear sound, you will hear every crumb dropped in a film and every ding in music when listening to these astonishing speakers. Not forgetting the subwoofer, the subwoofer included produces a very nice clear, clean, thumping bass sound perfect for all those action movies and all those bassy songs. These speakers sound great but they dont only sound great they also look as good as they sound producing a very modern new millenium kind of look, they are very stylish to suit your other stylish equitment you may want to hook these speakers up to... Read review

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Advantages: Small, lighweight, extremely fashionable
Disadvantages: The download software only worked with OS's up to Windows ME. Screen is hard to see in the dark

...This Mp3 player is small, lightweight and sounds great. The actual player works by using a small SD chip. SD stands for Secure Data, which basically means that it never loses data unless told to by the computer that it was created on. THe Mp3 fits easily into the palm of your hand and roughly speaking is about half the size of a debit card in diameter, in depth it is probably a CD case. The screen on the Mp3 makes it looks stylish and modern, perhaps futuristic. THe screen is called black screen, this is because the writing is white and the screen is black. The sound quality on the mp3 is excellent, it has a wide definition field (what you can hear) and the highs sound crisp and clear, the lows rumble away without a problem. The SD SV75 runs on AAA batteries, the really small ones, used for some tv remotes. It has a long life... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap, easy to ride, insurance friendly, great first bike
Disadvantages: Build quality, when you park it next to a 900 or 1000cc, you'll want rid

...As a 22 year old who has always been into biking i decided to do my full test last september. I passed 2nd time (had trouble with a u turn in the wet on 1st!) and set about looking for my first 'big' bike. On a budget of about £2500 i had a fair few choices - the insurance companies managed to cut these choices down to 3 or 4 for me! In the end it came down to a choice between a 51 reg SV650S for £2400 or a R reg Yamaha Thundercat for £2300. I rode both and for me, the SV won hands down - so i bought it! As a first bike, you dont have to worry about squeezing the brakes too hard and locking wheels (although they are good enough to feel safe) as its a V twin. This was my first V twin and i was impressed how easy it was to ride, barely any power was needed to pull away and the low down torque was unbelievable! It was easy to throw... Read review

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Advantages: Divx/Xvid playback, usb and firewire ports present, wealth of connections.
Disadvantages: Slow starting from standby, is quite large in size, no videoplus.

...the recorder is brought out of standby. These backlights are quite bright really, so it may not be to everyones' taste Recording and Playback Media: Records to DVD+R and DVD+RW, with +R being the write once variety of DVD and +RW being the rewritable variety. The +RW discs can be written and erased like VHS tapes, for up to about 1000 times or so, but unlike VHS the picture quality recorded will not degrade over time as the disc is used and reused. This unit will NOT record to the DVD-R/-RW discs but it does however read them with no problems. In addition to playing standard dvds, the SV-1001 will also play: DVD-R/-RW * DVD+R/+RW * Music CDs * including HDCD CD-R/CD-RW * VCD / SVCD * MP3 music files on CD and DVD * JPG photo files stored on CD and DVD * Kodak Picture CD DivX / Xvid (MPEG4) * It will also play .MPG files... Read review

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Advantages: Incredible Sound, Modern Look, Tasteful Design
Disadvantages: Don't come with Speaker Cables (except the amp)

...This review is for the SV-70-IV (the other models have been discontinued by Pioneer) I recently purchased the new Pioneer VSX-917 Amp and was looking for a new set of speakers as my old Panasonics just weren't cutting it any more. I was undecided wether or not to buy a set of floor standing speakers or to go for the more compact bookshelf speakers. I spent hours doing some research on the net and basically what most experts say is that if you have a decent sub you can still get incredible sound using satellite or bookshelf speakers as it will cover the entire freaquency range. Provided they are good quality, which the Pioneers certainly are. I phoned a few reputable dealers to find out how best to match speakers to an amp and the most important factor is that the speakers must have the same impedence (Ohms) as the amp. Then you... Read review

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Advantages: Proper fit, well made, good finish
Disadvantages: non-removable liner

...Helmets are bit like shoes, they serve a very basic purpose, often sold on the basis of styling, but fundamentally, the fit is key! I've used an SV for a couple of years now, and for the money, would suggest there's very little to beat this 'lid'. I've tried 'budget' helmets, but found they didn't fit my head especially well, and got downright uncomfortable after a couple of hours. Which is where the Arai came in - I'd started to do some serious road trips - one of 100 miles or more. The budget helmet was just like a cheap pair of shoes, and was beginning to pinch, giving me headaches. Nothing for it I thought, time for a decent lid. Arai came up trumps. They make numerous high-tech models, many with garish graphics, countless ventilation holes, and cost a bloomin' fortune. But then there's the SV. The SV... Read review

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Advantages: really quick
Disadvantages: too many buttons on the remote control

...Hello Ciao-UK, ok, I dare to write my first report here, I hope my English will not be too bad (I am happy about your corrections), for I am from Germany and the Ciao-Germany-Community. I am writing about my Samsung SV 6333 X, the roadrunner among the videorecorders. Perhaps I have different criteria about technical things than others, so I try to explain, what they are: 1. Optic The Samsung SV 6333X is black and so in my opinion inconspicuous, which is good, for there is no need to see it in the living-room. 2. Size/Need of place It is 35 cm wide, 27 deep and 10 cm high, which gives my sympathy to it, for it hides in the wardrobe and there are no dust problems. 3. Handling-Instructions I am no friend of handling-instructions, because most of them are written in a kind of Chinese or translated awfully (I hope, my report... Read review

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