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posted January 08, 2003 08:03 AM
Good ZX6R / RR test (in the US) on AMA Superbike
http://www.amasuperbike.com/2003-Jan/030107f.htm
  
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posted January 08, 2003 08:26 AM
good article......have thought seriously about the 6R and the 6RR as play bikes....dang I wish KHI would bring ou the 10R, or a 10RR.......
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posted January 08, 2003 09:31 AM
Yep, I'm hoping for a ZX10RR next year!
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posted January 08, 2003 09:57 AM
My son Chad will be dragracing again this year with Kawasaki at the AMA Prostar events and should be getting his new RR soon. Chip Ellis who will tune Chad's bike said Tommy Hayden told him the clutch might be a problem with the tall first gear. It will probably take some time to make the bike competitive so Chad will start the season off on the '02 model he rode last year. Racing starts in Gainesville at the end of next month....woo-hoo!
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posted January 08, 2003 11:05 AM
I assume he won't be racing it with the slipper clutch. MUCH too fragile for drag racing! With respect to the gears, is it legal to modify the gear stack??
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posted January 08, 2003 01:15 PM
...nice 
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posted January 08, 2003 03:16 PM
*very* nice. You guys going to DG5 better keep an eye peeled, yer liable to get skinned, dipped and eaten in the curves!
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posted January 09, 2003 10:34 AM
hey swft.....if thigs start getting to rowdy, dont think I wont break out hte 600 at the gap......and with the corsas on it, ya'll better watch out....them little bikes are nasty up there......worst feeling I ever had up there was getting passed but a stock sv650.....on my 12.......made Kelly switch bikes with me at the lookout.....lol wasnt about to let that happenagain.....lmao, but it did...that guys was dam fast....lol or ,aybe I am just that slow.....
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posted January 09, 2003 10:44 AM
Reminds me of the first time I rode Mount Saint Helen's...The guy leading us in was riding a SV650 on 207GPs. Holy shit! There was this one hairpin that was about 270 degrees and changed elevation bout +30 feet at the same time. Dove into that fucker and it was the whole world spun around me. Damn near a religious experience.  But watching that SV knife through the turns ahead of me, a zx9r and a guy on a CRR929 made me realize that I wanted to (a) go racing and (b) do it on a SV650.
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posted January 09, 2003 10:54 AM
amen swft, praise it loud brotha.....I love the curves on my 12, but my 6 is far more confidence inspiring.....and shitloads more fun, and so much easier to make go fast in a curve is not even funny
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posted January 09, 2003 02:58 PM
 Edited By: ohitstodd on 9 Jan 2003 15:01
another first impression..
I'm definitely getting one.
...To test mid-range roll-on, we brought along a very healthy 2002 Honda CBR600F4i. This F4i is the beneficiary of a Yoshimura slip-on system, as well as the sophisticated EMS on-board computer system (not to mention several hours of dyno time at the Yosh headquarters) we wrote about on May 16, 2002. We are pretty confident that this particular F4i would walk away from virtually any stock 600 in the mid-range. If you drop the revs low enough, it will also walk away from the 2003 ZX-6R, but at about 7,000 rpm (which is rightly labeled "mid-range" on a bike that redlines at 15,500 rpm, as the ZX-6R does) the 6R easily pulls away from the F4i. On top, the 6R engine performance is simply phenomenal.
The 6R pulls hard from 8,000 rpm, very hard from 9,500 rpm, and extremely hard from 11,000 rpm all the way to 15,000 rpm. Despite feeling like it has a fair amount of weight over the front wheel (and the inherent stability discussed earlier), the 6R will power wheelie in first gear if you wack the throttle at 11,000 rpm -- even if you have your weight right over the tank and bars. Most 600s require a tug on the bars, and a weight shift to boot. The 6R will wheelie whether you want it to or not, so be ready!
The front wheel will also catch some air in second gear in this same rpm range (11,000 - 15,000 rpm) without touching the clutch. Knowing that our Yoshified F4i is nudging 100 horsepower at the wheel (now that it is broken in), we would estimate the new 6R has a firm grasp on at least 105 wheel horsepower stock. Not a bad peak horsepower output for the displacement, and pretty remarkable, really, given the 7,000 rpm spread of thrust between 8,000 and 15,000 rpm....
http://www.motorcycledaily.com/03january03kawasaki2003zx6r.html
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posted January 10, 2003 02:49 AM
i read that ....looks to be a really nice bike this year....have to ride one, let Kelly ride one see if that is what she wants...she has been talking about a VFR......not a bad bike, but really freaking heavy, hel it weighs as much as the dam 12, with half the power.....but its her choice....
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posted January 10, 2003 07:23 AM
Actually, the VFR weighs 10 lbs more than a 12.
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posted January 10, 2003 08:23 AM
well there ya go....hwy would anyone want more weight, and less power.....she says its for comfort......screw that, when yer draggin a knee there sint enough of your ass on the seat to worry about comfort....lol
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