Congrats and welcome to the sv650 family! You should stay a while
The suspension mods will make a big difference - it doesn't take much to make it quite the canyon carver. I've never ridden a curvy and hear that the engine is really sweet, even better than the second gen. I've got a 2005 naked and love the feel of the engine, much prefer it to the wee strom version. Of course, I'm old school and have only owned singles, parallel twins, and vee twins.... but my sv has the sweetest engine so far.
