When were you ready for a 600+CC supersport

[spydercanopus]

I had a 500cc v-twin ninja for a few years thinking I was riding a sportbike. It was really just a cruiser with an aggressive riding position which is good for practice I suppose..

Then 8 years later I bought this gixxer 600 thinking I had experience with sportbikes... Well this is a whole a new beast. I've gotten the RPMs up to about 10K, but it gets too fast and I have to shift up to before I get a ticket.

It's fun... but I don't really get to push it, ever.

[High_Side]

I had a 500cc v-twin ninja for a few years thinking I was riding a sportbike.

It must have been a fake! Most 500 Ninjas are parallel twins

[spydercanopus]

It must have been a fake! Most 500 Ninjas are parallel twins

You caught my ignorance shining through. I just knew it had two cylinders and assumed v-twin. Thanks for the correction.

[High_Side]

It must have been a fake! Most 500 Ninjas are parallel twins

You caught my ignorance shining through. I just knew it had two cylinders and assumed v-twin. Thanks for the correction.

It's all in fun - sorry for the jab. I kidd

[totalmotorcycle]

Those Ninja 500's are great bikes though, were made forever, easy to insure, find parts for and cheap to buy, plus good power too.

I think I'll have to feature a Suzuki GSX-R600 in the next Cool Wall as it is such an iconic 600cc sportbike.

[G3rrity]

+1 to spyder's comments. When you get on a real-deal 600+ cc sportbike, it feels very much like you're learning to ride all over again. Everyone will tell you this, but you won't really understand until you do it yourself.

[HYPERR]

+1 to spyder's comments. When you get on a real-deal 600+ cc sportbike, it feels very much like you're learning to ride all over again. Everyone will tell you this, but you won't really understand until you do it yourself.

Maybe I'm dumb but I really don't understand what you are saying here....

And I've never heard of it either and I know a lot of guys that ride 600s.

[Fast Eddy B]

This thread makes my head hurt.

[sapaul]

+1 to spyder's comments. When you get on a real-deal 600+ cc sportbike, it feels very much like you're learning to ride all over again. Everyone will tell you this, but you won't really understand until you do it yourself.

Maybe I'm dumb but I really don't understand what you are saying here....

And I've never heard of it either and I know a lot of guys that ride 600s.

it's like that experience you get when you get used to a boxer twin and all your muscle memory concentrates on that, and then you jump on a four cyl that revs to 15 000 and the front wheel wants to come up and you just don't understand why because you are riding like you usually do, sort of thing, you know.

[Johnj]

HYPERR it's called the level of experience. I know lots of guys that ride 600s also. I don't ride with any of them because I don't ride with squids. Now I'm not saying your a squid, you might ride responsibly, but in my experience riders of 600cc sportbikes mostly don't...and I've seen plenty.