Honda CBR600RR

[iwannadie]

Well I am starting on a 91 CBR 600. I cant say I chose the bike, the bike chose me. It was forgotten in a garage for a few years. It was offered to me for $800 with full equipment. Too good of a deal to miss. I have some experience riding mopeds. I used to drive a stella (http://www.mopedarmy.com/photos/brand/25/4983/) when I was 12. I know this is totally different. I have no problem holding it and driving it in first gear. I never went higher yet. I took all plstics off but on top of that I am very good at fixing fiberglass. My dad did not drive a bike in 20 years and he jumped on it and went ripping. He said it is killer but not imposible. Hell I bet many beginer accident are result of showofs. Sell it and buy a beginer bike? Hell no i just cant sell it after i put so much time in it to get it runing again.

showing off will always get you in trouble. resist that urge to impress people ahah. most people i know that 'used to ride' all said they wrecked while showing off. but thats the case with all of life so its should be no thing new.

man sport bikes are ugly without plastics, not sure about yours. but my katana looks like junk with out its coverings ha. hope you plan to put them back on soon ;p

[Skier]

How can you say no to this pretty little thing?

[iwannadie]

yea only a mother could love it too.

[daught]

Maybe I will try to make my own "plastics" from fiberglass this winter. I will see how my hood scoop will look, but first I have to cover those damn holes in my car's floor.
BTW is there any way to take out the spark plugs without takeing the gas tank and air filter out?

[Psycluded]

Not to beat a dead horse... but...

I love my RR. She is a beautiful, sexy, mean little vixen, and were it not for the fact that I had about 3 months (~4000 mi) on my F4i before it was stolen, we would have died at 110mph a long time ago.

The RR is a Race Replica. It is built with nothing but the track in mind. It's actually set up so that you can drive it off the lot, spend 2 hours taping the headlights, changing the rearsets, safety wiring your bolts and controls and changing the coolant, and then trailer it directly to a track tech inspection for a track day. At the rev limiter in 1st gear, with no sprocket change, you will be doing 75mph. 2nd gear, it's 95mph. This bike will eat a newbie alive. I used to think, "Hey, I survived on a 600 as my first bike, so can others!" but this bike? No. This bike I would never recommend for a new rider. It is quite simply too twitchy and unstable (good for an experienced track rider... baaaaad for a newbie), and to top it off, the seat is a bloody brick. Not that it matters on the track, but if you're trying to commute with this thing (like I do, because I'm stubborn), you will FEEL that seat after a while.

[GhostToon]

I started on an '04 RR and i've been fine. Everyone says not to start out on one because you won't be able to handle it, however i think it depends on the rider. I took the MSF class, but i had never riden anything on two wheels except a bicycle before that. The bike definately can be twitchy, but it can also be controled. The brakes were something i had to get used to, but after a couple of hours in an empty parking lot i got it down. I never did anything crazy while learning on it. I kept the rpms low and didn't take any chances. It just makes the learning experience harder, and at times more stressful. It depends on you. If you have any doubt on the bike, it is not for you. If you're buying it to show off, its the wrong idea. If you know you can set limits, and stay within them I think you should get it.

you will NOT kill yourself just because you didn't start out on a small bike, however the opportunity is always there. Remember what you are riding at all times, and don't push your luck.

Hope this helps.

[Sev]

Exceptions only prove the rule.

There are more accidents involving new riders on large displacement bikes then anyone else.

[Sauve]

I agree with GhostToon. I also took the MSF course and had ridden nothing but a bicycle before then. A couple of weekends after passing the MSF (it was all done in an abandonned parking lot), I decide to rent a '03 Honda V650 with my roomate for our first actual road riding experience. They only had one V650 left and the only other bike available was the 600RR. I decided to suck it up and go with the '04 600RR.

I must have stalled that thing 30 times in the first hour or two. We made our way to a quiet neighborhood to practice. At first, the power seemed overwhelming compared to those little 125cc bikes I had used in the MSF. I eventually got comfortable, knew my limits and knew not to test them and put 400 kms on the bike the first day riding in the mountains and about 100 kms the next day, riding mostly in or closely around the city.

Now, I want to buy this bike as my first bike but won't, even though I felt extremely comfortable by the time the rental was returned and pissed my pants in excitement when I rode the thing (I tried the V650 on the second day and didn't enjoy as much because it seemed as though it completely lacked OOMPH!).

I think that buying this bike without thinking that I may make a mistake over the next 5,000kms would be a big mistake and I'm not willing to take that kind of a financial risk so that I can look cool and kick butt. I can do that in a year or two when I've had more experience. I really would like to thank everyone from this forum. My original intentions were to buy a CBR600 but after reading through all the threads, it's a no-brainer.

Those are my thoughts. I hope I didn't bore anyone.

[CBR1000RR]

i learned how to ride on a old f2, for about a month, then the 600 bored me, i found myself on it all the time at almost or full throttle, so i gave a 99 superhawk a good home and tried it out, it was scary for me to get on a 1000 vtwin after only a month of riding, but i did just fine, but the vtwin family wasnt something i liked so about 3 weeks later i went and got the cbr1000rr. now thas a bike bike and basically with only 2 months under my belt im doing just fine. i dont know if i have a natural talent or what but the full liter bike is fine also. ive even taken her to the track and scrapped pucks, dont get me wrong, we all learn as time goes on, but some people just have the nick for these things, maybe hell be fine on the RR, but we all kno hell learn his lesson trying to replace plastics. some people learn the hard way, thas all. [/i]

[basshole]

I'm REALLY looking forward to what this thread will look like 90 days after the bike is purchased. I'll be curious to see if any attitudes or outlooks will have changed or if the testosterone will still be speaking for the rest or your body. And just what are you gonna do for insurance?