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Hmmmm, has nothing to do with self control. It has to do with control of the machine. This person is purchasing there first street bike, they don't need a 1000. Everyone posting about outgrowing a 600 either doesn't have a bike or are the same idiots riding busa's into cars and take there corners standing up. Anyone with skill knows a 600 is a machine to be reckoned with and a liter bike is something that only the mature and seasoned few should ever take out onto the street. The point is if you have to ask what size bike you should get from all the idiots on this board then your ass doesn't need a bike to begin with.
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People pick the 600 because it's a happy medium between too much and not enough. 99% of the people who start out on anything bigger then a 600cc bike, suck at riding. Why is that, you ask? Because they never learned throttle control, they learned throttle chop. It's my personal opinion that by starting out on a bigger bike you hinder your learning curve drasticaly. Your more worried about, on and off throttle response then being smooth and comfortable.
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Do you really have to start a thread every time you go on a ride and see a guy with no helmet on?
Does it affect you that much that some random guy 1500 miles away went and paid his own money for a 1000?
Do we really have to fight over who uses the back brake or not?
Do you have to argue over stupid pointless shit on the Internet?
Do you really have to start a thread every time you go on a ride and see a guy with no helmet on?
Does it affect you that much that some random guy 1500 miles away went and paid his own money for a 1000?
Do we really have to fight over who uses the back brake or not?
Do you have to argue over stupid pointless shit on the Internet?
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That's the thing, how many people out there can fully control there machine...... who on this board rides a 600 like it was meant to be ridden, very very few if any. you can have all the self control in the world, mistakes will happen and on a liter they happen a lot faster, a lot harder and make you a lot deader hahaha.
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there are a couple on this board that can and do. And yes if you start on a bike thats too big your learning curve won't be a curve, it'll be a straight flat line. Basically anyone who's ridden a 250 for 6 mos. could theoretically beat someone who's only ridden a litre bike since day one. It's sad when the newbies with the best bike on the market get beat by a guy(or gal) on a 10 yr. old 600, sad for the newbie.
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Originally posted by KrazyInKamo
so what's it say to you with a guy on a busa beating a guy on a 600 around the corners?
just a question... 
so what's it say to you with a guy on a busa beating a guy on a 600 around the corners?
just a question...
You get to choose one of three options listed below. If you get it wrong you must DYE, so choose wisely.
1. The rider on the 600 is a horrible rider.
2. The corners you were going through were full throttle swepers.
3. You were dreaming it happened.
Did you take the bike buy R&R to let DB set up your suspension yet?
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Originally posted by seven
there are a couple on this board that can and do.
there are a couple on this board that can and do.
eh, yes and no. If they could truely exploit all of the bike's potential then they would be a professional racer. However, i will concide to the fact that there may be a choice few in the Tampa bay area who can exploit all of a 600's streetable potential.
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Yeah, what DB and seven said above... im still extremely pleased with my R6. I would however, like to get an R1 (who wouldn't) in the future, and I will. I am no means in a hurry to get it because I am "bored with the power" of my 600...
