The stock market is up-and-down. Gas prices continue to yoyo. Even the weather is unpredictable these days. In this world of uncertainty, at least we can count on one thing: Suzuki is bringing back the SV650 for another year. To say the SV is long in the tooth is an understatement. Initially released in 1999, the perennial naked is now well over the drinking age (in the States).
The House of Hamamatsu seems content with pumping out the SV650 in current form as well. Suzuki most recently updated the model in 2017. Since then, the brand rolled out the café racer-styled SV650X in 2018, but the variant’s run was short-lived. Suzuki’s North American site only lists the base SV and its ABS counterpart in 2022, and new 2023 colorways released in Italy suggest that changes aren't coming to the platform anytime soon.
