Early To Mid 90's, Best 600 Sports...

[ZXR400Lee]

Hi all

Looking to upgrade my 400 to 600 spring/summer time. I want to buy a bike around the £1800 to £2500 mark and aged between 1993 - 1997. Been looking at various bikes but just cant choose, asking if any of you have opinions and it. I've looking at:

Kawasaki ZX6R - (Really like 95' model in Red and Blue!!)
Suzuki GSXR600
Honda CBR600F - Not too keen on looks though
Yamaha YZF600 Thundercat

I await your feedback..

Cheers

Lee

[furry]

Kazi, well I'm no expert, but they are all pretty spot on...

GSXR600, don't touch anything before 1996, they are bricks on wheels

Honda, Look a bit boring, but the older ones are tough!

Thundercat??? Come on don't be a pussy LOL

[age]

go for a 1997 gsxr mate best pick of the bunch.






Furry you last reply was bit short

[Claud 14.7 to 1]

2000-2500 will got you a 99 of any of those (99s = newer models)

Don't settle for anything less.

I like Honda Cbr600f, and Kwack ZX6r (newer 98/99-) - these two are a bit more "comfy" sportsbike, which for the road is what I would want TBH. Both are still very capable.

Srads are OK... I probably wouldn't buy one though. Handle great, maybe the best here I'd say, but are focused.

Thundercat? Nope...

[furry]

I'll Stick with what I said Above age...

One thing to keep in mind, ya ride a ZXR400, thats a focused bike, so it's a bit pointless your next bike being non-focused...

For the sort of money your talking, you could get a half decent SRAD 600/750 or Kazi, hey I like the ZX-7R ya don't see many of them about any more!

Only problem is, trying to get your hands on one that ain't been shagged, as a wise man once told me... "remember son, these bikes wern't sold to nun's" LOL, so keeping that in mind, unless your lucky, I'd keep away from the SRAD's and prolly the Kazi ZX-6R too, however if you look hard, could get a well looked after ZX-7R

[CvPiper]

Go for the SRAD mate, superb bike IMO, there is also a very tidy ZX6-R at a bike place in taunton, IIRC its a 97 for about £2500.

As furry said a lot will have been ridden hard, to see how many owners have had it then upgraded, as this would indicate they got bored of it, mines a 2 owner, one from new til jan last year then my mate for a year so i have good knowledge of the bike. I did see some rough bike when looking though, but you get that with any bike!

[CBR_LOVER]

There's absolutly nowt wrong with a good,well looked after CBR600f,ok if u not keen on the looks,but the motors are very good mine has done 47.000 with full service history and is fine.....i paid a bit over the odds at £1600 but i am glad i bought from a dealer rather than ebay!!!!

Cheers,CBR_LOVER

[DynaMight]

People go on about pre-SRAD 750's being too heavy, Which you could say there were. They weighed about 200kg dry, No-one ever mentions that the ZX7R's actually weighed more..... Never went below 200kg even until they stopped making them in 2002.

I'm sure SRAD's are nice bikes, But the rearend is ugly enough to put me off.

[jason]

GSXR600, don't touch anything before 1996, they are bricks on wheels

Youd have a job to get hold of one anyway - they never made GSXR6's before 96. SRAD 600's introduced a year after the SRAD 750's in 97. First FI Gixxer 600 in 01 if I remember rightly.

pre that the only suzuki choice would be the shockingly shite RF and GSX 600's

If you can stretch to an SRAD 600 then the question is a no brainer Suzuki all the way. If not I dunno.

[chris_1127]

there were definitely pre-srad gsxr600's; whether they were officially imported to the UK or no i dont know. But they definitely made them. look pretty much identical to the 750wn/wp so probably just a sleeved down version - in which case pretty pointless. PB or someone similar ran one against a load of other bikes about 10 years ago

[jason]

definately not officially imported then and rarer than rocking horse shit.

[Chewie]

there were definitely pre-srad gsxr600's; whether they were officially imported to the UK or no i dont know. But they definitely made them. look pretty much identical to the 750wn/wp so probably just a sleeved down version - in which case pretty pointless. PB or someone similar ran one against a load of other bikes about 10 years ago

are you sure that it was not the 400cc GSXR?

[chris_1127]

nope, 100% positive it was a 600. had a quick look and it doesnt appear on the list of officially imported Suzuki bikes from 92-94 though so guessing it was a grey import they tested

[DynaMight]

They did make a pre SRAD GSXR600. Looks similar to Pre-SRAD 750's (or 400's), Never imported into the UK, They did make it to America too. You may have seen one but mistook it for a GSXR750 possibly, I dont know how meny have been imported....

Theres a guy on the gixxer.com forums who has a 6/11 (A 600 frame with a GSXR1100 motor), Which has been tuned and currently has NOS ;)

[furry]

GSXR600, don't touch anything before 1996, they are bricks on wheels

Sorry I made a fcuk up there I was refering to the GSXR750, god know's why I typed GSXR600, the brain was doing one thing, the fingers something else LOL

http://newserver.bikepics.com/suzuki/gs ... 2/pics.asp

Seems they actually started doing the 600 in 1992, allthough info about it is very limited

Weird how one typo can bring up such things on here eh LOL