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Hey I was just talking to a guy at my school who said he likes handling on the R1 much better than on the R6. Any of you guys know about this?

ian wrote:Hey I was just talking to a guy at my school who said he likes handling on the R1 much better than on the R6. Any of you guys know about this?

well, you can't argue about his personal preference. he may like it because it is more stable/less twitchy. but to say a stock r1 would out handle a stock r6, i would have to disagree. now if the r1 had had an upgraded suspension, like say the LE model, that i could believe.

I'd have the biggger bike - my size & weight is too much and just overwhelms the R6 (I know, cos i've tried it) and is the main reason I won't faff about with another 600 when it's time to replace the fizzer, and my 17 year old fizzer is more flexible low down too, just where I need it on a public road. What works on the track will soon become an emuggerance on my daily commute with wet diesel strewn roundabouts, potholes, kamikaze cage pilots etc.

I have ridden both and I think the R1 handles better but Im a bigger and stronger person these days. I prefer the 1 liters anyways because of my size. I rode around the 06 gixxer 1 liter yesterday. Thats a sweet ride.

Hi,
Handling is VERY subjective.
It depends on upper body strength and general physical fitness, weight and riding style.

At 180lbs the R1 seems fat compared to the R6 and I can fling the r6 around a lot easier than the R1 if I was about 20 years younger I would probably feel the r6 was twitchy compared to the feel of the R1.

How anyone can commute on the R1 God alone knows as I am very heavy handed on a throttle to ride without getting camera flashed at every speed camera in the first 6 miles of riding and lose my licence just as quick.

Now I have fixed the front suspension on my FZR the r6 front end is not as good in my personal opinion whilst is may have less flex in a corner it is still a pogo stick.

It will be interesting when I do the rear end tomorrow.

yamaha_george wrote: How anyone can commute on the R1 God alone knows as I am very heavy handed on a throttle to ride without getting camera flashed at every speed camera in the first 6 miles of riding and lose my licence just as quick.

George, speed's not a problem if you've got one of these...

Alright, FB, what's the deal with that?

Stick "black rat police" into Google.

Black Rat: Originally Meant traffic officer. Now in general use. Allegedly chosen as a motif because it's one of the only animals that'll actually eat it's own young! Until fairly recently a traffic officer could place a black rat sticker in their private car as an unobtrusive way of 'showing out' to colleagues, in the hope that they wouldn't get pulled for driving offences etc. Now-a-days it's more than likely that the car doing 90mph in front of you with a rodent sticker on it's number plate isn't actually being driven by a Black Rat, but a sl*g boy racer who's chancing his arm. Give him a tug.

R3TARD wrote:Black Rat: Originally Meant traffic officer. Now in general use. Allegedly chosen as a motif because it's one of the only animals that'll actually eat it's own young! Until fairly recently a traffic officer could place a black rat sticker in their private car as an unobtrusive way of 'showing out' to colleagues, in the hope that they wouldn't get pulled for driving offences etc. Now-a-days it's more than likely that the car doing 90mph in front of you with a rodent sticker on it's number plate isn't actually being driven by a Black Rat, but a sl*g boy racer who's chancing his arm. Give him a tug.

R3,
Back in my day we were "Blue Knights" and our bikes were & helmets were Govt property so no stickers, but our own bikes had a Blue Knight on a white horse hand painted on Later some guys used that funny tree in a creasent moon from Star wars Jedi Pilots since we were in "the Force". All my helmets have that sign front & centre except the latest as my brother has not been around with his art set lately (newly married LoL)

So how do you guys get to ride all these new bikes?! I don't know of any stealerships around here that do demo rides...

A collegue of mine is a bike trader on the side,so I get to sample his wares.

Fartblood wrote:A collegue of mine is a bike trader on the side,so I get to sample his wares.

I have young foolish friends who trust me to ride their bike with respect <?>

haha I asked a guy in my ground school class if I could ride his brand new gixxer 6oo (which he laid down on mile 2. beginner rider.) and he promptly scoffed and said, "heck no dude! my bike has way more power than yours! you'd kill yourself!" and I promptly told him he was an asshat and pointed out that he laid his bike down a mile from the dealership. Punk.

ian wrote:haha I asked a guy in my ground school class if I could ride his brand new gixxer 6oo (which he laid down on mile 2. beginner rider.) and he promptly scoffed and said, "heck no dude! my bike has way more power than yours! you'd kill yourself!" and I promptly told him he was an asshat and pointed out that he laid his bike down a mile from the dealership. Punk.

And this is where you take him out for a ride and smoke him!