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werd...my roommate has one and the bitch tops out at 176 bone stock. trust me, it's a sick bike.sounds like you can't ride. ZX636 is a damn fast bike.
sounds like you can't ride. ZX636 is a damn fast bike.
i with you im not a fan of them, to slowTrust me, its my 48th bike and i can ride. obviously my idea of fast and yours are 2 different things. My last bike was a zx9. now that bike was fast. 100mph and the front would come up at 7k rpms with out feathering the clutch.
werd...my roommate has one and the bitch tops out at 176 bone stock. trust me, it's a sick bike.
Trust me, its my 48th bike and i can ride. obviously my idea of fast and yours (at a wopping 23 years old) are 2 different things. My last bike was a zx9. now that bike was fast. 100mph and the front would come up at 7k rpms with out feathering the clutch.
E_SolSi;76 2713 said:
so you bought a bike that you think is slow
you went from a 900 to a 600
when i went from my ITR powered Sol to my Insight i thought the Insight was slow as fuck too... but compared to my rollerblades it was fast as fuck
was there even a point to this entire thread????
my young ass 23 year old self no doubt has a different view on speed.
a 636 will make it around back roads and tracks faster then most any bigger bike with the same riders + will be way more forgiving. on top of that the new 2000+ 600s stock stock will run the 1/4 mile just as fast as the new liter bikes due to them staying planted where the liter bikes will pull up or burn the rear tire, (read mag reviews on 1/4 mile times) now if you're stretching a liter+ size bike out then no doubt it will be much faster from 0-100 then a 600 but that would just prove the point that my sense of 2 wheel speed is different then yours.
Where the 600 no doubt sucks speed wise is over 100+ MPH liter bikes will keep pulling just as strong from 100-160 where the 600 will fall short.
My idea of fast is a bike that can hit twistys and get up to 100mph just as fast as anything else bike wise on the road.
No doubt your idea of fast is being a dumb ass and doing highway runs, why did you buy a 636 for a busa/ZX12R/ZX14R job?
each to their own.
And I'm with Esol, you're on your 48th bike, and you went from a 900 to a 600 and you want to bitch about it not pulling up at 100mph?
damn man you sure are stupid for making the change, then bitching about it and on top of that made a pointless thead. go over to some gixer forum and tell them how your kaw sucks.
yay you!
You run your little moth pretty big for a buck fifty weighing little punk.
I was just introducing myself and as the thread said to show your ride. I did, and then you hiding behind your IP addy had to run your mouth recless when you know your safe, but if you talked that way with the person your talking to in front of you , you would get your pie hole closed.
your cocky rude comments speak volumes of your young ignorance.
Ive served my country in a war, been in life and death situations for my country, and see people like you and weep for our coutries future.
If you can't be respectful, don't bother posting in my thread.
Thank you
As with anything in righting, its not just how someone says it, it's also how someone takes it.I didnt get pissed at what you said, how you said it. Just because I like a faster bike you assumed I coulnt ride.
636 is no more, the last ones were in 2006. There is only the 600 now, probably due to the fact that 636s couldn't race the 600cc class, and so are really only good for the street. That would be fine and dandy except that Kawi doesn't really hold a large percentage of the 600cc class market, and of that market, most 600s are bought for the purpose of tracking. Dumb financial move also to offer 2 different bikes in the same market, imo of course. I'd take a yamaha, suzuki, or honda over a Kawi any day of the week based only on the history of the reliabilty of each perspective company's bikes.
I agree with jeffie. I had no problems keeping up with my friends on their liter bikes with my R6. I also like the older style zx10r and zx6r: they looked a bit edgier to me. Kawi has always had more reliability problems than the other brands, and I don't see that changing; although the slipper clutch they have is pretty trick. Are any of the other manufacturers putting OEM slippers in their bikes?
mrfreez - try riding the bike with the engine in a good part of it's powerband. If you've previously been riding a 900, obviously the 600 is not going to ride the same way. You need to adjust your riding style, shift points, etc, accordingly. A properly setup 600 would probably hand you your ass via lowside if you rode as aggressively as you say you do.
As with anything in righting, its not just how someone says it, it's also how someone takes it.
Being a bike rider yourself you should know better then most that 99.9% of street riders CANNOT push a 250 to its limits let a lone a 600cc + size bike, anytime I hear someone say a 600cc is too slow the first thing that comes to mind is yet another guy who wants to do straight line runs.
I still stand behind a 600cc bike pulling just as hard out of the corners (under 100mph)
I will give you that but out here where I ride an accomplished rider can keep the bike between 75 and 145 where as some of the other guys we ride with are between 45 and 95 behind us. To them they were flying. I would not even ride if I had to hang behind them. I would have 1 hand on my hip for most of it.
as a 1000cc bike, the main difference is the person on the 600 will have to keep the RPMs between 12-15K at ALL times. but if they do, it will hang with a 1000cc no problem.
Trust me, my bike lives above 8 at all times. I am pretty hard on em. I can't see buying a sport bike and pampering it. And when I sell em, I let people know, I changed the oil every 1000 miles and rode it hard.
I really like the old style ZX10R with the side high mount exhaust, I'm not a fan of the under tail ZX10R exhaust, because of that I'd go with the R1. Plus I have a few friends that race in the 1000cc class and they've seen more 10Rs breaking down then any of the other 3 major jap bikes.
I have not experienced that, but if it does start to give me problems, I have no problem with getting a Yammy, Suzuki or Honda. I beat on em all.
The longer I stay off my 600 the more I want an R1/1000RR, but everytime I hoop on my bike and hit the backroads I remind myself of how much I DONT need the extra power.