Reasons we ride liter bikes-add yours or ones you've heard
1) Cause only Suzuki makes a 750cc super sportbike
2) Too much power is a good thing 3) I have excellent throttle control 4) So I don't have to rev my engine to the moon while riding around town 5) It's an extension of my otherwise small penis 6) I drag race only 7) Cause I'm used to big block cars and pickups with lots of torque 8) I have a small man's complex and it's how I cope. 9) It's better than a 600 for commuting 10) I do a lot of two up riding. Ok, feel free to add other reasons/excuses you have heard. |
11. Torque.
12. Lot of uphill around here. |
Lower rpm's on the highway.
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cause i like jumping hills with a girl on the back
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I like doing power wheelies....
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...I'm afraid I'll just outgrow a 600 too fast
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Because I'm lazy and don't always feel like tap-dancing on the shift lever.
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Cause I'm too tall and weigh too much for a 600
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600's are for girls. Real men only ride 1000's.
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Because it's alot harder to ride it properly around a race track. ;)
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I don't know if I count.
- because I want to. |
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1. I tow a trailer from time to time.
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because you have an image to uphold.
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2. Shifting to pass someone is annoying.
Shifting should be something to enjoy. doing it to pass somebody feels like work |
So I can do 100mph in 1st gear.
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3. Somedays, I don't want to exceed 3000rpm, other days I like to play with all 12,000 rpm
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I can have slower corner entry speeds
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Since I hold on to bikes for awhile and sportbike performance is always progressing, I'd like to be able to keep up with future 600's on the road.
the ones that wuill make 250hp and weigh ten ounces |
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Daves penis is small, he must compensate
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The ZZR is the wife's first bike. When we got our hands on it, it had been parked uncovered in a parking lot for three years. Before she ever rode it, she helped me rebuild it from the ground up. My wife now knows more about her bike than most of the guys I ride with. ;) Proof: http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/i...286b695916.jpg Proud of her work. Took us like six months of working every night and on the weekends to get it here. http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/i...8de353676f.jpg http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/i...8fd1bda0d0.jpg If you want any more, just let me know. I documented pretty much the whole build, so I have lots of picks. It really is a blast to ride. It's comfortable, very quick-steering, and user-friendly. It makes like 39 hp, so you can really wring its neck and have an absolute blast without breaking the sound barrier or killing yourself- something that neither of my other bikes do well. There's something to be said for really tearing it up on a little bike like that. /thread hijack |
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Nice. Looks better than the ZZR600.
Cool Zuk sitting next to it too. I love oldskool twin round lights. |
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...oh, AND I have a very small penis |
Because two (really) big jugs are better than 4 little ones.
Or maybe it's just because... |
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Because, my friend has one and this is my first bike and I don't want to be left behind.
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Nobody NEEDS a liter sport bike. It's ALL about image. I loved my 750, it was the absolute best of both worlds. Liter bike performance with the weight of a 600. |
Power wheelies are possible on every 600 I've ridden.
Guess you don't NEED a 750 either. :lol: |
Couldn't decide between a 600 and a Busa. :idk: :lol:
Same reason I prefer a .40 cal....it is a balance between a .45 and a 9mm. |
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Because our roads are flat and straight
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Take any 600 to 8000 rpm and whack the throttle wfo, the front will shoot up so fast that you'll likely shit your pants.
Take the same 600 and tug on the bars at 5000 while opening it wfo and it will likely still come up. My 2000 R6 wheelied easier in first than my buell. |
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superslab on that thing would fucking suck. |
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Although I would rather have an old ZX4R if you could find it.
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Yeah, the ZX would make a much better trackbike- the ZZR runs out of ground clearance a little soon for decent track work. I've damn near ground the centerstand off of it on the street. :lol
Unfortunately, the ZX4R is a pretty difficult bike to find, even in Japan. FZR400s and GSXR400s are far more plentiful and just as capable. If I was looking for a cheap small-displacement bike, I'd go that direction. Still, we'll probably sell the ZZR for something like $3K when we leave, which will work out nicely being as we've probably got about half that into it. The way we look at it, the wife learned to work on a motorcycle, learned to ride it, put a bunch of miles on it, crashed it once and then fixed it, and gained a ton of great experience. The fact that we'll make a few bucks on the deal is just icing on the cake. ;) |
Because they haven't produced a GSXR2000 yet!:lol:
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Japanese jugs http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...6/DSC02900.jpg Big american jugs.. http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums...pictureid=6131 |
Because I have small Balls going into a corner so I need BIG balls coming back out!!
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I'd still fap to that. |
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that would be a rc51 or TLR right there
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I used to think the larger crank and pistons would make for larger centrifugal force to offset, BUT! Litres rev lower. The couple thousand rpm difference may actually make those forces closer than most people think. I have no hard facts to back this up, just something I was thinking about one day.. |
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yep, wanna go do karate in the garage?
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lmao. nice.
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It's the perfect compromise between a sissy 600 and an unnecessary 1300.
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Yeah I obviously missed it. But I just heard it yesterday. And dude was serious... |
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Less rpms for everything inside the engine though. A 5oz unit of mass spinning at 16500 rpm, would have the equivalent force of x spinning at 13500rpm? I don't know the calculations, or I'd do em myself. And I know they won't be equal, I just think they're a lot closer than most people think. Apoc's 2005 or 2006 1000rr turned in faster than my 2000 r6. |
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Your example, though, suffers because there are a lot more variables involved than simply displacement. The suspension geometry of those two bikes is dramatically different, and suspension setup was probably not comparable. ;) |
Here's another i've heard more than once, "cause I have to respect the throttle of the liter bike"
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Cause I'm "just a girl" and I'm not supposed to be able ride/handle such a big bike....so I have to prove them wrong.
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Cause the salesman actually made you think that your penis was bigger than it really is.
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Engine speed is directly related to the speed that the internal components are spinning. And the faster you spin it, the stronger the gyroscopic forces are. Put 50lb weight on the end of a rope and spin it at 50rpm. Now put a 40lb weight and spin it at 100rpm. The 40lb weight WILL have a higher centrifugal, and gyroscopic effect. (same length ropes btw). |
101, I thought you were an engineer. How do you keep failing at basic physics concepts?
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Basically, it's a bullshit statement to say that an 1000 can't enter a corner just as fast as a 600 in every case... I guarantee that my 1000 can enter a corner just as fast or faster than oh a CBR600F2 with the same rider on both...:lol: I guess I need to go to engineering school to be able to figure this out.:lol: |
HAHA I never said a 1000 can't enter a corner as fast as a 600. I ment it as a rider that does not have the "balls" to carry speed through a corner can always ham fist the 1000 on the way back out to make up for lost time. I see it all the time. Guys break checking on their 1000s so I run up their ass then gunning it out of the turn so there is little to no chance I can pass them on a straight. One guy almost wrecked himself on his "big-bore" breaking hard into a sweeper then when I tried to pass he drag raced me forcing me back into my lane behind him. I was not happy. He wrecked it the following weekend.
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I'm no expert by any means but I'd guess if you put Rossi on a GSXR600 and a GSXR1000 (Of the same year) and he was up at Deal's Gap (and supposing fear of crashing was about the same as a track). I feel that he'd be faster on the GSXR600 since I believe they have a shorter wheelbase, lighter weight, etc. But I'm also sure that Rossi and a handful of people in the world would be able to exploit those differences. |
I don't know...
I started riding when bikes had a bit more "heft" to em. Whipping around a 600 doesn't feel that much different to me than whipping around a 1000 of equal weight. A few ounces between a 600's inner workings and a 1000's inner workings? My ass isn't that sensitive and I'm not racing competitively. |
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Besides I'm an EE, not an ME (though I had a bunch of ME classes which I hated). |
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