Well Sunday I drove 3 hours to pick this bike up. 2305 miles, all stock. Not a scratch on it, 1 owner, never dropped or laid over. Came with a NIB set of -1/+2 gears that I may put on it sometime soon.

Only mods I've done to it so far is:
Fender eliminator
Shogun Crash kit - cut style
Suzuki silver CF tank pad and cowl pad

It was really dirty from hitting some puddles.. it's been cleaned. And yes, I kick *** at paint. Way too lazy to reload photoshop after reformat.



















I have put just shy of 100 miles on it and have loved every minute of it.

 

Nice!
i dont know what a 'Shogun Crash kit - cut style' is, but i hope you never need it

 

Shogun is the brand, "crash kit" refers to the product(s). They are frame sliders, they bolt to the frame and are suppost to take the impact instead of bending the frame in case of an impact. They also protect your plastics very well, many bikes come up unscratched after slides with frame sliders on. The crash kit includes the bar end sliders (screw in to the ends of the handlebars), the frame sliders ( as you can see in one of the last pics, the little black "puck") and the swingarm sliders (little bobbins bolted to the swingarm, near the rear)

Cut style refers to cut or no cut. No cut frame sliders have a special bracket that moves the slider around the plastics, so you don't have to cut. Cut style, you have to drill a hole in the plastics. Cut are stronger and are symmetrical, no cuts have weak brackets and offset the sliders to different locations on each side of the bike and make them look odd. 2nd to last pic shows the hole i had to drill, and the frame slider itself.

I hope I never use them also. But if I do need to, hopefully they protect the bike - plastics and all!

This thing is way faster than any f-body I've ever owned or ridden in. It takes ~500-600rwhp to keep up with a decent rider on a new 600. Once I change gears on it, it should really wake it up more.

 

Remember....Only 1 wheel needs to be in contact with the road to have the most fun !!! Be safe.

 

I am trying to keep wheelies to a minimum for right now reason being that I just got it

It is really not that wheelie happy out of the box, probably due to the stock gearing. In the upper rpm ranges it will pull it up with ease though

I am going to get used to this bike first, then change the gearing and see what that does.

 

beautiful! I am jealous.

 

Thanks - the day I bought it I literally kept going out to the garage to look at it every hour or so. Love it.

 

Beautiful bike!

 

Gearing is the best thing that you can do to a bike (performance wise), especially a 600.

 

Sweeet. They are a lot of fun if you get a few buddies to scoop some up too.

 

Congrats on the purchase!

 

Nice bike my buddy has one just like it with a pipe 07 though it made I think 115 on a superflow so have fun and be safe.

 

CONGRATS!!! I wish I had a Gixxer, very nice best color scheme out there for the GSX-Rs. Be safe

 

Nice bike but a death trap!

 

It is definatly fun going out on the town with friends. Way more fun than in a car, IMO.

Blue/white is def my favorite colors for the GSXR. Only color scheme I really wanted. I would accept black/black, red/black, or blue/black otherwise though.

And there are 2 sides to the "death trap" of a bike. One side is you're out in the open so you're prone to being run over, crushed, etc, but in the event of you flying off the bike if you are properly geared up in leathers you can just slide along the pavement untill you stop and be unscathed. Where as in a car you do have protection around you, but if you're in a bad accident and it crushes the car you could be crushed along with 2 tons of metal.

Proper gear is definatly needed for a bike for any chance of safety, though. Kills me to watch idiots on youtube doing highway speed wheelies wearing a t-shirt and shorts.

Well I just changed oil on the beast.. what a pain in the ***. Oh well it's fresh and ready to go. Supposed to be in the 60s tuesday, can't wait.

Appreciate all of the compliments.

 

Very nice looking bike. Getting my first one next month.

 

Very nice.

I got to learn to ride one but on a 1000. What an experience. I'm looking to buy one pretty soon but it's been cold and snowing. Just not the right time. I'm going to take a beginners course first though. Almost smacked an Explorer on the side of the street from not realizing how sensative the throttle is.

 

Killer bike man....

And this is what happens to the frame slider with a large impact...

 

Ouch! did it hit a curb or what?

 

Actually a Chevy Blazer...