The CBR

Originally Posted by Spanner Man

Morning all.

I rode a 600RR to my local MOT station & back, & that was enough! I guess they might be ok if you're about 5'6" But for us hefty 6' plus (older) types they're bloody uncomfortable!

Cheers.

It might just be because i'm young and arthritis has not set in , but i really don't think the ss600 are that uncomfortable. Admittedly i found the RR the least to my liking, but i don't think the riding position is much more extreme than a SV with clipons. The pegs are higher, so there's more leg bend, but i find my bike more comfortable than i found my SV.

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

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The RR is the most difficult to ride, uncomfortable bike ive ever been on...getting in and out of the traffic in London was nasty, its got no lock but the worst thing about it was...say you were trying to squeeze thru traffic and you got lock to lock...your hands get jamed under the bars and tank, making it nigh on impossible to tweak the throttle to get you going...once this happened and i just toppled onto a lorry and was stuck, leaning against the lorry, hoping the traffic didnt start to move....

The ZX6R is much easier all round....

I must say all the advice i had when looking for an old CBR was aviod the steelie, only look at the ally frame / injection models cos they were a quantum leap...

Originally Posted by Blue_SV650S

Is even the old sttelie CBR 'practical' anyway??? ... lets face it the ~90hp the stelies offer is ludicrous power* anyway!! Before they bought out the RR the CBR was always thought to be the dull/thinking mans 600 ... I've owned 2, but I'd never have walked into a show room and bought one NEW

I don't even consider how dull people think they are, I remember them being cracking race bikes in the late 90s and early 2000s, and how great a trackbike they make now. The type of people who class things like CBR600s as dull usually read too many bike mags and couldn't ride a rocking horse anyway. To them 1000cc and at most 2 years old is a bare minimum even though they have the riding skills of a frozen turkey, and 99% of them are scared of anything over 1/2 throttle anyway. I love people like that, because even I can run rings around them on the track on something like a 600 Bandit. Bring it on.

Besides, I bought my CBR600 because it was all there, running and cheap, and for not many other reasons.

Originally Posted by pete m

I must say all the advice i had when looking for an old CBR was aviod the steelie, only look at the ally frame / injection models cos they were a quantum leap...

Someone gave you duff advice. A late steelie is a far more preferable bike to an FX or FY. When my eldest wanted a replacement for her aging NC30 she bought a nearly new late registered FX model, and soon regretted it after riding a friend's FV.

[Spanner Man]

Originally Posted by pete m

The RR is the most difficult to ride, uncomfortable bike ive ever been on...getting in and out of the traffic in London was nasty, its got no lock but the worst thing about it was...say you were trying to squeeze thru traffic and you got lock to lock...your hands get jamed under the bars and tank, making it nigh on impossible to tweak the throttle to get you going...once this happened and i just toppled onto a lorry and was stuck, leaning against the lorry, hoping the traffic didnt start to move....

The ZX6R is much easier all round....

I must say all the advice i had when looking for an old CBR was aviod the steelie, only look at the ally frame / injection models cos they were a quantum leap...

Good good another RR hater!

The maintenance schedule notwithstanding, the ZX6r is a very underrated bike.

I'm with Lozzo regarding steel framed CBR's. Possibly you were recommended not to get one because of age related problems that could have occurred.
Apart from that awful 'Tony the Tiger' colour scheme (only joking Lozzo). The FV & FW were the best of the Steelies.

Cheers.

P.S. Guess what I've got to go & collect shortly?.........A flippin' non starting 600RR GRRRRRRRR!!!!!

As I have already stated, I like (and have owned) the old steelie CBRs, great bikes for the cash today. Alos a well ridden one is quite a formidable opponent (to be fair that is like with many bikes really)... but they are hardly trouser-tent material these days … and they never really were … I don’t ever remember drooling over a CBR6 EVER (before the RRRRR that is - which made my pants ping ).

I like the raw of the ZX6s of similar era (real nasty/aggressive sound), but the build quality was terrible! Id say it would be fairly easy to find a good 10-15yr old CBR, but a lot harder to find a good a ZX6 of the same era!

I tell you what really was an underrated 600 … the ZZR600 … had one of them too, it was always deemed a porker (which it was), but it was quite a capable bike and of all the 600s it was the most ‘practical’ … in the early-mid 90s it was the fastest of the bunch (straight line) too …

Originally Posted by Spanner Man

I'm with Lozzo regarding steel framed CBR's. Possibly you were recommended not to get one because of age related problems that could have occurred.
Apart from that awful 'Tony the Tiger' colour scheme (only joking Lozzo).

The graphics on pretty much every 90's CBR were a bit shell-suit inspired, but the awful ginger colour-scheme my bike has is without a doubt one of the worst. You can't make orange look good on a motorcycle, not unless it has KTM on the tank.

Originally Posted by Lozzo

The graphics on pretty much every 90's CBR were a bit shell-suit inspired, but the awful ginger colour-scheme my bike has is without a doubt one of the worst. You can't make orange look good on a motorcycle, not unless it has KTM on the tank.

My dad had one of these, in this colour shcheme:



Matt

Originally Posted by Spanner Man

, when it's de-restricted all you're going to see of him is a rapidly disappearing number plate if you're on an SV! (Fighting talk or what)

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as i will be on my new Ninja i would bet it will be the other way around!!