I freaking love my GS.

[Suzuki Stevo]

Yeah, but they're still 70lbs heavier than a gsxr1000

True...but weight/mass is required for a good ride on the road, a 1500 Lb Cadillac would ride like compost. Are you going to race it or ride it in the real world?

[BaltimoreGS]

Yeah, but they're still 70lbs heavier than a gsxr1000, and just because the way the market in this country is, anything aside from supersports gets built up as a budget commuter. I want something as light, strong, and well put together as a supersport, I just want it to not be covered in plastic and have more of a focus on midrange. I just need to move to Europe to get my hands on some of the naked bikes we can't get here. I'm gonna end up finding a gsxr, pulling the plastic off, and putting riser bars on it, and having to get a bike that's stronger than I need just so I have the leftover midrange to pull me around without revving the engine like crazy.

+1

I'd love to get my hands on a GSR600  http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/suzu/suzuki_gsr600_b-king%2006.htm

-Jessie

[tt_four]

Yeah, but they're still 70lbs heavier than a gsxr1000

True...but weight/mass is required for a good ride on the road, a 1500 Lb Cadillac would ride like compost. Are you going to race it or ride it in the real world?

This is true, but a light bike with a good suspension is still going to be better than a heavier bike with a cheap suspension. I plan to do a little bit of everything with it, but I don't imagine I'll spend much time at all on the highway where a plush heavier bike is comfortable. Weight wouldn't be as much of a concern for me if I wasn't only 145lbs. If I weighed 180+ and was a couple inches taller I don't think I'd ever give it a second thought and just pick up a Z1000, which I think is just about a perfect street bike. They make the Z750 as well, which I'd love to get if kawasaki treated 750s the way suzuki does, but they don't. The z750 is just a z1000 with a smaller bore and cheaper parts. In what kind of world do you sell a 750 copy of a 1000 bike where the 750 weights more?! I know from bike shootouts that it's supposed to be a great bike, but still, if they would've made it faster than the er6n and lighter than the z1000 they'd actually have something, instead of a concept that's just going to drop off the face of the earth and be forgotten.

Yamaha needs to make a light 8-900cc version of their mt-01 to satisfy my love for buells and hatred for anything not as reliable as a japanese bike....


or Suzuki should make a naked simple version of their gsxr750 just to be the meanest street bike you could buy....


and I will be happy

[mister]

Yeah, but they're still 70lbs heavier than a gsxr1000, and just because the way the market in this country is, anything aside from supersports gets built up as a budget commuter. I want something as light, strong, and well put together as a supersport, I just want it to not be covered in plastic and have more of a focus on midrange. I just need to move to Europe to get my hands on some of the naked bikes we can't get here. I'm gonna end up finding a gsxr, pulling the plastic off, and putting riser bars on it, and having to get a bike that's stronger than I need just so I have the leftover midrange to pull me around without revving the engine like crazy.

+1

I'd love to get my hands on a GSR600  http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/suzu/suzuki_gsr600_b-king%2006.htm

-Jessie

Nice +1

Top speed... 216kph. Based on a GSXR6. Fuel economy is up to OhMyGoodness. Small tank (compared to our GS). Twin front brakes. EFI. Yadda yadda GoodStuffYadda

It's biggest downfall... it ain't a GS500. Oddly, down here I can get a Honda CBF900 (Hornet) for less $$$ than the GSR600. But the 600 has the Magic  

Michael

[Suzuki Stevo]

All good points, you clearly know what you want 
At my age I'm just happy to be able to get out there and twist the grip!

[tt_four]

I do really like those honda 919(cbf900)s, but I'm looking for used, and for some reason I don't think I've ever seen one used for less than $4k. I like the FZ1N as well, but you don't really see those in the U.S.

Once I have a new bike I know I won't really care what it is, but I've got all winter to try and figure out what I want to pick up when spring comes around, so I just sit here scrutinizing details on the internet all day.

[drewbytes]

I'd love to get my hands on a GSR600  http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/suzu/suzuki_gsr600_b-king%2006.htm

-Jessie

They are nice  but it feels completely different to the GS500.

[jonathanneely]

Kick ass track day video. Way to lay it over in the curves! That was awesome!

[mister]

I'd love to get my hands on a GSR600  http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/suzu/suzuki_gsr600_b-king%2006.htm

-Jessie

They are nice  but it feels completely different to the GS500.

Exposed aggregate, paling fence, the style of the buildings, the dry-weather resistant plants.... I said to myself... this has to be in Australia. Look left... Canberra... Australia.

Besides the obvious instant throttle response and more oomph, is it different in other ways?

Michael

[drewbytes]

Besides the obvious instant throttle response and more oomph, is it different in other ways?

Michael

Michael,

It just feels and handles completely different to the GS500 when riding. Seeing as the GS500 was my first bike and I've done 13,500 kms on it - and it's the only bike I've ridden it was a bit strange to hop on to another bike. It may just be that and I need more time to get used to it.

It doesn't have as much steering lock as the GS500 and slow riding u-turns etc I've been practicing as it initially felt harder to ride at slow speed. I'm not a good enough rider or knowledgeable about how these things work to explain properly, but the GS500 also feels to me like it corners easier. Again, probably due to me not having enough experience on ithe GSR600 yet.

Riding position feels very similar to the GS500 but you seem to be further forward.

Oh, but the power...   and I've already got radiator cover, Banditmania exhaust and PUIG screen on it.

[tt_four]

Just because I've got some time to spare, our selection of 600-750 upgrades, naked because that's what I like. Not necessarily all available in the US.......

Triumph Street Triple


Honda Hornet

Kawasaki z750


Yamaha FZ6

Ducati Monster


Suzuki sv650




Suzuki Gladius

Kawasaki er6n


Suzuki Bandit

Triumph Speed Four




.....and if you can afford it, my all time favorite, Brutale 750



You guys may think of more, but those are the main ones....

As far as how they feel different, I don't really know how to describe it either. The bikes are bigger, stiffer, and handling feels completely different when you've got that much torque behind the wheel pushing your bike. You definitely get used to it though. You have to be a little more forceful in turns, but the bikes usually feel completely solid when you're doing it.

[galahs]

How's that 1000 working for you on the street?

Really Good

[galahs]

Ryan..going fast on a small bike (GS500) is always more fun than going fast on a fast bike, give me a fun bike any day, bigger is not always better...unless you are compensating for something? 

You are in your "getting back on the horse" phase after your crash that totaled the 500, you will rock the Daytona with time 

I don't agree with that statement at all.

They are both fun, for different reasons.

What you think is fast on a GS500 doesn't even raise an eyebrow to a supersports.

[tt_four]

Ryan..going fast on a small bike (GS500) is always more fun than going fast on a fast bike, give me a fun bike any day, bigger is not always better...unless you are compensating for something? 

You are in your "getting back on the horse" phase after your crash that totaled the 500, you will rock the Daytona with time 

I don't agree with that statement at all.

They are both fun, for different reasons.

What you think is fast on a GS500 doesn't even raise an eyebrow to a supersports.

I thought the saying was "it's more fun to go fast on a slow bike than slow on a fast bike". no where in there does it mention going fast on a fast bike, which is clearly the most fun option.

[galahs]

lol, that saying makes more sense and I agree