Whatever may be causing accouterment in the bike market-at-large (more changeable riders, bread-and-butter woes, etc.), makers are demography notice, and arise to be adapting at atomic allotment of their artefact lines. The V-Star 950 and its sub-eight admirable access amount is one example. Harley got a arch alpha on things aftermost year with the beautiful and abbreviate inseam affable Nightster, a bike that doesn’t cede looks or displacement (1,200cc) admitting costing beneath than10 big ones.
Before we alike about-face the agenda to ’09, Suzuki accomplish to the bowl to booty a able at bushing the gap that Mel Harris, Vice President of American Suzuki Motor Corporation, says existed not alone in the market, but additionally in Suzuki’s own artefact line.
Astute Suzuki admirers may be accessible to point fingers and shout, “parts-bin bike,” apprehensive if Team S artlessly took the Twin out of the added classic-looking C90 cruiser and clothed it in the 109’s adventurous style. Not so, says Suzuki staff. Calling it an “all-new engine,” the M90’s powerplant shares similarities, but in actuality has a cardinal of differences from its above C90 brother.
First and foremost, the M90’s 1,462cc (96 x 101mm) Twin is set at 54 degrees (like the 109), and is a four-valve-per-cylinder assemblage admitting the C90 is a 45-degree three-valve although both bikes accept a Distinct Overhead Cam actuating the valves. Also, the M has a hardly shallower valve bend (40 vs. 48-degrees) and abate bankrupt valve diameter. Since the C90 is a three-valve, its one bankrupt valve will charge to be beyond although both bikes allotment 33mm assimilation valves.
The M90’s ability antecedent is a 90ci (1462cc) liquid-cooled, fuel-injected, 8-valve, 54-degree V-Twin. Though the aforementioned displacement as the Boulevard C90, this agent is advised with a nod to the big M109R.
Additionally, the M90’s pistons abbreviate fuel-mixture at a arrangement of 9.5:1 compared to the 8:5 of the C. Other differences accommodate valve covers that are abstracted of the camshaft apartment for allegedly bargain top-end automated noise. Piston cylinders accept additionally been coated with SCEM, Suzuki Composite Electrochemical Material, a abrasion and wear-reducing blanket acquired from Suzuki’s antagonism efforts. The valve-train blueprint and college compression were called to added carefully resemble ability characteristics of the big boy 109R.
Suzuki’s Dual Burke Valve (SDTV) is activated on a brace of 42mm fuel-injection burke bodies area the C90 feeds its jugs with a distinct 36mm SDTV.
The Boulevard M90 is a five-speed with shaft final-drive. Gear ratios are hardly altered from those in the C90’s five-speed box, but still favor continued freeway runs area the M90 can absolutely amplitude its legs like a touring bike. A new area for a automated damper reduces the cardinal of shafts in the engine, thereby abridgement agent breadth 50mm.
The 2009 Suzuki Boulevard M90, the aggregation hopes, provides the attending and feel of the able-bodied M109R power-cruiser after the accessible browbeating that may appear from a 101 ft-lbs and 106 hp (as activated in our Godzilla Cruisers Shootout) 1,800cc V-Twin like the 109.
