FZRSupport: the FZROnline Archive

Bad as in a good way, today i met up with some guy on an r6 and I kept up with him on my fzr 600. It was a fun time. Anyways you guys probably dont care ha.

of course we Dont care J/K .. as long as you had a good ride thats all that matters ...

aar0n,

I sold my FZRs and bought a newer bike because I thought that the newer bikes had so much more to offer. They do in the way of suspension, but in terms of tuning them effectively, give me a Jet Kit and a set of carbs over an ECM anyday!!!!

The FZR is a wonderful bike and has some tremendous capabilities.

darrin

... and then there are those of us completely replacing / upgrading the suspension, AND replacing the carbs with a fully-programmable ECU ...

ragedigital wrote:aar0n,

I sold my FZRs and bought a newer bike because I thought that the newer bikes had so much more to offer. They do in the way of suspension, but in terms of tuning them effectively, give me a Jet Kit and a set of carbs over an ECM anyday!!!!

The FZR is a wonderful bike and has some tremendous capabilities.

darrin

Darrin bought a new bike so he could live up to his title.. squid

I spent yesterday afternoon with my chums new (to him) tuned ZZR1400. Absolutely awesome, yet flawed.

The handling was very grippy and stable, but took some real muscle if it needed chucking into a tight one, and I'm hardly teeny at 6'3" and 235lbs.

Brakes - couldn't fault them for the weight and power.

Ah, the power. Explosive. Thermonuclear. Words can't sum it up. That said, a UK speck fizzer is still an 11 second bike, so as a practical reality squirting past cars wasn't any quicker, it justs doesn't require the rider to be so on-the-ball and in the right gear.

so, as agricultural as the Fizzers handling is, it's less of a handful and more flighty. The ZZRs motor aces the Fizz easily, yet translating that to public road performance is difficult and you end up bottling it anyway for fear of using your licence.

Unless you live in the boonies with no coppers and lots of highways, I can't see how it's worth £9,500 over my Fizz. It certainly doesn't buy you any more fun, only bragging rights down the pub. There's a common sense line of usability, and performance that is genuinely consistently attainable in public, and the Fizzer was pretty close to that line 20 years ago.

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FB,
well being Father's day sunday I took the brats to the ACE CAFE' for the day which was posted as GIXXER day (no sign of Darrin ) but there were a couple of Kawa 1400 retro bikes there plus one lone FZR 1K (never found the owner despite flaunting my FZROnline T shirt ) couple 'busa's and a whole slew of slab sides and every other type if gixxer R6 & R1 were well represented.

I over heard the Kawa guys yakking on about the lack of "space " to run them now that lincolnshire cops have started a crack down on bikers speeding round the loverly roads they have.

The day was so good I took the bike out to stretch its legs on some very un-used hiway, it was clear I did not see another vehicle in a 9 mile stretch, I kept to the speed limit :-} as I feared I was between two police road closures