looks like the stock GSX-R600 is good enough...

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camthepyro · #101 Post by **camthepyro** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:06 pm

Haha, probably because it is.

dieziege · #102 Post by **dieziege** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:15 pm

...but it does have a gas gauge.

Actually, that picture looks rather blury to me, as though it wasn't done by the same people that took the other pictures or they didn't set up the strobes right and so were casting odd shadows.... maybe they just cropped that out of a larger image...

Myself002 · #103 Post by **Myself002** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 1:41 pm

its a v-twin tho, v likes the inline 4s

#104 Post by **fireguzzi** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 1:50 pm

WOW this is amazing.

I think Vermi could start a thread about a fart and it would end up being 180 pages long.

We sure like our Vermi!!

-Holiday · #105 Post by **-Holiday** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 1:51 pm

fireguzzi wrote:WOW this is amazing.

I think Vermi could start a thread about a fart and it would end up being 180 pages long.

We sure like our Vermi!!

yea but he would only do that if you looked cool while farting

Mintbread · #106 Post by **Mintbread** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 2:19 pm

swatter555 wrote:
The guy comes down from wanting to get another liter bike down to a 600 from advice on this board. All of a sudden because he doesnt want to get a Ninja 250 you are all back on his back???

Give it a rest, the board is getting conservative beyond common sense.

I don't care what he chooses to ride. It is the "looks like the stock GSX-R600 is good enough..." comments that indicate he may have a clue that annoy me because he clearly doesn't.

VermilionX · #107 Post by **VermilionX** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 2:33 pm

yeah, i don't mind getting smoked by other riders on smaller bikes at the tracks or at the canyons. im still too early to be worrying about getting smoked. i'll concentrate on improving myself instead of worrying about catching up to the faster guys.

and yeah, im not as good as you guys w/ the technical stuff. but's it's ok, im learning as i go ride more and spend more time here too.

i wanna get the new bike already... i wanna ride it a lot and get used to the new bike. i hope it will only take less than 10 days like my adjuster said for the settlement.

and that is not the aprilia that i want... this is the one i want.

jmillheiser · #108 Post by **jmillheiser** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:01 pm

The SV v twin may sound like a cruiser at low rpm but once it hits its powerband it sounds like a ducati.

I sat on a few suzukis today. the SV650s has weird ergos, the bars are pretty low but the pegs are fairly forward for a sportbike. On the other hand the SV1000s has an identical riding position to the gixxers. I found the gixxers to be pretty comfy.

Hey verm if your worried about how the 600 will fit, the riding position on the 600 and 1000 is nealy identical

VermilionX · #109 Post by **VermilionX** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:12 pm

jmillheiser wrote: Hey verm if your worried about how the 600 will fit, the riding position on the 600 and 1000 is nealy identical

no not really, i don't even intend to sit on it at a dealer. i just need to find a good deal and i'll get it on the spot.

i was thinking it will be the same in regards to riding positon. thanks for confirming though.

dieziege · #110 Post by **dieziege** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 2:58 am

I hate to bring this thread back from the dead but verms last post is a perfect segue into something I saw yesterday... I had to share....

I'm wandering around one of the local dealerships that specializes in used bikes... they have an open lot with a bunch of bikes and are cool because you can just jump on a CBR, a GSXR, an SV-650, a GZ250, or whatever else they have and compare how they feel to you. I'm jumping on everything, seeing how comfortable they are and so on...

A couple (well...male and female...may not be a couple) is looking at a Yamaha supersport (didn't catch which one exactly), poking at it and so on. Neither ever sat on it that I saw. Eventually they find a salesdrone and the bike is pushed off the lot, sold.

A while later my attention is drawn by the sound of an engine starting. I look over and there is someone balanced on the bike...kind of balanced anyway, with their legs fully extended their toes aren't within 2 inches of touching the ground on either side of the bike, so it is sort of tipping back and forth as they try to balance it. The person tries to roll it backwards, almost spills it, jumps off (kickstand still up), braces it up as it almost falls on them, pushes it around (almost dropping the other way in the process), jumps back on (almost having it fall another time) and does a sort of curve-accellerate-wobble to get it up to rolling speed. Once rolling, they stabilize out to a nice low-speed ride...at that point it looks like they've ridden quite a bit.

The other member of the pair (I have no idea which of them was which with their helmets) is sitting on a bike they rode in on, waiting for the wobbler to ride over to their end of the parking lot so they can leave together. The wobbler, on the other hand, sees an exit straight ahead, doesn't want to stop (and struggle with balancing the bike) and pulls out onto the street. Wobbler rides off to the west. The "partner" crosses the street and sits in a driveway waiting for wobbler to return. Eventually, about 5 minutes later, a yamaha rolls up, surging and bucking as the rider tries to downshift and/or brake, and the two roll off to the east....probably not stopping for anything....

I'm sure they were both skilled riders... but the rider should've sat on the bike before they bought it...and if they absolutely *had* to have that bike, they should've come prepared to deal with the height issue...