ok I have a question for the 2 wheel guru's. while I have been riding for about 10yrs it has been on a cruiser and big power isn't really the goal. I am now looking at getting a sportbike, cbr, gsx, or maybe a ninja ( if I can find favorable info on them). my question is what difference is there between carb or efi on a bike? I ask because it looks like only the newer bikes have the efi, but they are on the very top end of my budget ( which leaves no room to get good gear). I do eventually want to get an efi bike, so should I save the money now for a good used one or go carb and learn on it, then resell (for about the same price) and get the efi next year once I have saved more money?

thanks for the input.

 

I have a 2000 Ninjz zx-6r (carb) and my buddy has a 2003 R6 (EFI). He smokes me pretty bad. If you are buying new, you could get a ZZR 600 which is the same as a 2000-2002 Zx6R only renamed. It will be slower but alot cheaper and still new. I love my bike, very comfy.

 

mines carb I don't see it as any slower....just takes longer to start when you ignite her...

 

mines carb runs good

 

Yeah, what he said.

Tuning is the big thing for me. FI is by far easier and more efficient for tuning. With Carbs you can only tune Low, Mid, High RPMs. With FI you can tune every 250-500 RPMs, at multiple throttle positions.

 

Yeah I have a carb bike and it sucks. I'm, saving up just so I can have a fuel injected bike so I don't have to screw with my choke every morning. Carb bikes are a lot of maintenence and maint=money. That's the only other screwy thing. That, and you can screw with the throttle at anytime and flood it.

 

cool thanks, in the world of cars I can't stand carb, and I tune my own ecu with hondata. I have seen some things like the commander for the efi bikes as well, so knowing what I do about efi on cars I prefer to go efi, I just have to find a good deal on one. thanks for the input.