I have been wanting to get a bike, the part now is choosing.

My brother has an R6 '05 and he likes it.
I asked him about this and he said that most 600's are pretty much the same performance wise.

The one that has caught my eye was the gsxr. Is this a good 600 bike to get?
or should i move towards like a ninja or an rr? I don't think ill be getting an r6,
but the daytona600 has caught my eye as well.

Opinions?


thanks,
Jon

 

i got an 03 GSXR-600 back in 03. Gixxers are great. always loved the way they looked. i think its the best 600cc available next to the Kawasaki. The GSXR was my first bike. all the people at the dealer ships said that it was plenty of power. but they were wrong. i grew out of this bike in about 4 months. now i want a 1000. the only thing i would suggest is you have to be intimidated by your bike at first. if you're cocky and take advantage of it you will fall. go easy on the throttle for a little. especially if you get a 1000, be gentle with it . Good luck, have fun and ride safe.

 

If your set on a 600 then it comes down to two things. The first is comfort. You can have the most beautiful bike in the world( in your eyes) but if your not comfortable on the bike then its junk. You need to sit on all the bike 600RR, R6, gsx-r600, and ZX6. sit on them put your feet on both pegs get into tucked postions move around really feel yourself on the bike. The best way to do this is put on all the gear your planning to wear( helmet, gloves, jacket, boots at the least) and sit on the bikes. you can do it without those things of course but its a completely different feel. Once you have decided which one or more you feel comfortable on you move to the second item which is looks. If your only comfortable on one bike then that should be the one you get. But lets say you feel good on the gixxer and the R6, but you love the way the gixxer looks then you get the gixxer. The fact is 99% of sport bike riders out there are never going to push their 600 to the limit. I mean really ride the bike hard. Unless your doing track days i don't care what anyone says they are not going to get even close. I have been riding bikes since I was 11 and I thought I was a hot shot on my 600's. I was sure i could ride the piss out of them. That was until i started doing track days in which case I came to realise I had a lot to learn. I still don't use 100% of my 600's but i feel comfortable enough that I pretty much stopped riding them on the street and really only rode them on the track and used my R1 as my street bike. To the average joe every 600 is going to be the same in performance specs. Personally I ****ing hate the gixxer 600. I think its the biggest peice of shit out now. I feel completely uncomfortable on it. My knees hit the top of the fairings. I don't like how far forward the center of gravity is on the bike. Every squid around time with tee shirts, shorts and sun glasses own's one just so he can say "Ya I ride a gixxer". I do like the looks but again it comes down to comfort for me. I rate the bikes like this. If you want to be cool buy the gixxer, if you want a nice smooth easy riding bike get the 600rr, if you want to be different and have a nice all around bike get the ZX6. if you want something you have to ride hard and plan on doing a lot of track days get the R6. I own all yamaha's. an 05 R6 which i turned into my track bike which my gf started riding when i picked up my 06 R6 and started riding that at the track and my 07 R1 for the street so i'm a little partial to yamaha's.

 

Nice write up.

 

Jesus, you outgrew a GSXR600 in 4 months??? I have ridden bikes for 10 years, have racing license and am nowhere near outgrowing a 600, in fact I find them too fast for my taste.

 

Those are the squids who love to say they ride a gixxer 1000..... if he out grew a 600 we would see him on the grid in ama.....

 

I loved my Gixxer...

 

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all of the bikes are good. they really are. this from the stand point of street and occasional track days, maybe light stunting. i dont care what they look like, they are soooo phucking fierce you have to respect that alone.

i have dropped the bike many times and broke a few bones. everyone sets their own limit. i was always careful not to go way over and total the bike or myself.

your body will take about 2mo to get used to riding a sportbike. being reasonably in shape is a requirement.

 

if you start off on a 1000 you are seriously handicapping yourself. You can't understand truely how to ride the bike. I would be willing to put my R1 on the line that I could ride circles around you all day long on any track in america on my R6's if you really started riding on a liter bike. Its just a fact. I pass squids on liter bikes everytime i go to the track with my 600's and everyone says oh i started on liter bike. For someone who has never riddin a bike before you are doing way more damage starting off on a liter bike. Look at all the best riders in the world. Not one hopped on a liter bike and became a star. they all started in low classes. either coming from 50's or 125's. put it this way its like having steps 1-10, 1 being starting off on say a 250 street bike and 10 mastering a liter bike. When you jump on a liter bike for your first bike you just missed learning everything in steps 1-9 which puts you at a huge disadvantage. when starting small on a bike like a 250 you learn the feeling of a bike. Your chances of doing something stupid and getting away with it are much better because a lower cc bike is always more forgiving. You can't argue with facts.