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I have seen guys lean pretty far with the pilot powers, I used to have a set of pilot sports on my bike and I was very pleased with the way the performed. I have got a set of metzlers(sp?) sport tech M1's on my bike now and they seem to be working just fine, I can easliy scrape a peg and not even mean to with the M1's. The only other tire that I have had experience with and did not like were the dunlop 208's, they took too long to heat up and they wore out too quick.

Well any way back to the subject. I would definetly go with the gixxer 600 it is a sweet looking bike, I wish I could have one May be next year.

joe,

do you know someone who uses the pirelli diablo corsa?

GeoffXR200R wrote: j/k. no crash is cool. Unless it's wiping out in a foot of mud. Then it's called a good time

Actually... one of the scariest posts I've seen on a motorcycle forum involved mud (maybe not a foot).... something like "I woke up in my bed this morning all sore and with a bloody hand... I went out to the garage and my bike and helmet are lying there totally covered in mud... but I can't remember how I got home. The last thing I remember was going about 7MPH along a dirt road in the rain... anybody else have that happen to them?"

dieziege wrote:

GeoffXR200R wrote: j/k. no crash is cool. Unless it's wiping out in a foot of mud. Then it's called a good time

Actually... one of the scariest posts I've seen on a motorcycle forum involved mud (maybe not a foot).... something like "I woke up in my bed this morning all sore and with a bloody hand... I went out to the garage and my bike and helmet are lying there totally covered in mud... but I can't remember how I got home. The last thing I remember was going about 7MPH along a dirt road in the rain... anybody else have that happen to them?"

freaky...

Severe concussion was the general guess...

VermilionX wrote:joe,

do you know someone who uses the pirelli diablo corsa?

No, but I have heard that they are a good all around tire. I think that Sport Rider magazine did a shoot out with all the liter bikes about a year ago and they fitted all the bikes with those tires and went to the track to test the bikes out and they seemed to be very pleased with the tires. Now on the street I don't known. Seems like the tires that are good on the track are not as good on the street, but I don't know that for sure I haven't had those tires on my bike before.

Joe Rocket=> wrote:
No, but I have heard that they are a good all around tire. I think that Sport Rider magazine did a shoot out with all the liter bikes about a year ago and they fitted all the bikes with those tires and went to the track to test the bikes out and they seemed to be very pleased with the tires. Now on the street I don't known. Seems like the tires that are good on the track are not as good on the street, but I don't know that for sure I haven't had those tires on my bike before.

im just curious how it is marketted as great for both on and off tracks.

now that i looked into tires... the stock tires i had on my previous 1000 were actually very good tires.

i wonder if the stock tires on the gixxer600 K6 is also gonna be the bridgetone battlax.

I am pretty sure that Suzuki will put the Bridgestones on the new GSX-R's. At least thats what I can tell from the pictures I have seen.

VermilionX wrote:... for these kind of moves.








i can't wait to get me one of those.

also, i guess this means i can trust the stock tires if the need arises that i enter a turn too hot provided the tires have warmed up enough.

and looks like it's not a DB windscreen after all that comes w/ the bike but it's definitely higher than the stock gixxer1000 windscreen.

it looks like 45° lean angle. i wonder if it can still go lower.

Uhh, I'm pretty sure you can do those "moves" on pretty much any bike. Especially any RR bike. Just need to spend more time working on cornering and finding lines than on upgrading your equipment with suzuki logos.

A friend of mine has an '89 Honda Hawk GT (bout 55 horsepower I believe) and he spends alot of time/money on riding schools and track days. He will eat up the majority of these RR bike riders around the track simply because he is really good at cornering...it's not the bike, it's the rider!

Dragging a knee by hanging both a$$ cheeks off of the seat is not a spectacular achievement The bike is not doing anything in these pictures that you couldn't do on just about sportbike made in the last 25 years.......