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Title: bike identification???
Post by: spc on June 11, 2007, 09:18:05 AM
i'm looking at a bike, seeing as the gs will be out of commission for a little while :cry:   The shop it's at doesn't know a lot about it just the price :icon_rolleyes:  It's a yamaha,  the shop believes it's a 650,  it's been streetfightered ( no fairings, has an acerbis cyclops up front.  it's early 00's either an 02 or 03.  The frame reminds me of a Duc it kinda has that trellis look.  anyone know what the hell it is??? if so opinions of it???  I like it, I'm going to look at it again today so I'll add more details if I note anything I think could be identifieing.
Title: Re: bike identification???
Post by: CasiUSA on June 11, 2007, 09:29:33 AM
Did we ever get the Yamaha TRX stateside? :dunno_white:
(http://www.staintune.com.au/exhausts/yamaha/images/Yamaha%20TRX%20850.jpg)
Title: Re: bike identification???
Post by: alerbaugh on June 11, 2007, 09:47:50 AM
a yamaha 650? we need pics...cum to think of it i think the yzf600r can be bored and stroked to almost 650
Title: Re: bike identification???
Post by: spc on June 11, 2007, 09:48:46 AM
Thats the frame!!!!  but not anything else.  The tail looks like an r6 tail.  So I'm guessing it's a heavily modified one of those....any opinions :thumb:

I'll try to remember to take pics
Title: Re: bike identification???
Post by: Jake D on June 11, 2007, 09:56:40 AM
Uh. . . an FZ6???
Title: Re: bike identification???
Post by: spc on June 11, 2007, 10:07:16 AM
looks like one as far as tail and tank but the frame is different.  The guy at the shop took it out and said it's got a helluva lotta torque for a non-r bike :dunno_white:
Title: Re: bike identification???
Post by: scottpA_GS on June 11, 2007, 03:08:16 PM
they don't know anything about it? Does it have a title? Whats the title say? i duno if I would buy a bike from a place that doesn't even know what it is  :laugh:
Title: Re: bike identification???
Post by: spc on June 11, 2007, 03:29:51 PM
yeah I know,  it's just at the shop for exposure the owner has the  title.  It does kinda strike me as odd that they don't know specifics :icon_confused:  update:  it's a kawi not a yam,  sorry I brain farted :flipoff:
Title: Re: bike identification???
Post by: spc on June 11, 2007, 03:36:38 PM
OK, I figured it out.  It's a ninja 650r.  just minus the fairings.  I like the red tube frame and black bodywork :thumb: :thumb:
OK....basically a kawi version of the SV650.........in other words a 70-75hp GS.  I think I may be buying it :icon_twisted:
Title: Re: bike identification???
Post by: CasiUSA on June 11, 2007, 08:06:50 PM
Quote from: spcterry on June 11, 2007, 03:36:38 PM
OK, I figured it out.  It's a ninja 650r.  just minus the fairings.  I like the red tube frame and black bodywork :thumb: :thumb:
OK....basically a kawi version of the SV650.........in other words a 70-75hp GS.  I think I may be buying it :icon_twisted:

That's a Kawasaki, not a Yami  ;)