Someone locally has a RF600 for sale and I was wondering if anyone has any experience with this particular motorcycle. Looks really nice, but doesn't appear to have a lot of information on the internet about it. Thanks for your help.
Destro is from KC!
Sweet! I didn't know anybody else on this board was from here.
Maybe we can ride sometime after I get my bike back together.
I live in the West Plaza area.
Sorry to jack your post. I've never heard of the RF.
That's OK, I'm actually still looking for my first bike. :oops: I'd like to have a gs, but they seem to be few and far between. I live up by North Kansas City Hospital. I used to live off of 39th by KU Med before I got married. I noticed you were on here, but didn't offer to ride since I had no bike. :roll:
Dude, I'm a pretty new rider too. And I just looked at my bike about an hour ago and the engine is apart and it looks like a dog chewed on one of the pistons. I got my GS from Maryland and had my brother trailer it home to find that it had basically no piston rings. It ran, but w/not much power and LOTS of smoke!
So it may be a while for me too! I'll PM you when I get my crap together.
Also, I love 39th street! I ate at Da Bronx Deli this weekend!
I'm at 50th and Ward Parkway.
I bought my GS from a guy that lived in KC. Isnt the RF the early GSXR? I think it is but Im not sure.
i ve heard that the rf is not a bad bike. they dont make em anymore and parts are getting scarce for them. the rf900 is known to loose second.
RF was no GSXR ... made 91 or 92 - 95-96 it existed inparallen with the GSXR and the Katana and later the B6 ... Easy to see why it got killed. I believe it was suzuki's first down draft head bike, prompting that Chuck Graves guy to stuff a RF9 motor in a GSXR 750 frame and run it in formula extreme or somehting ...
Cool.
Srinath.
They were known to be a bit on the heavy side, they have more plastic than a katana and were water cooled I believe. Kind of a bastard child of a gixxer and a katana.
All the Suzuki oil boilers will lose 2nd if you're hard on them. Same's true for the earlier water cooled gixxers too.