2005 zx6r query

[Strika]

I have ridden mine fairly err ......carefully....errrr throughout it's ownership, and used a errrr sedate....errr method of running it in. (warmed it up and thrashed it to within an inch of it's life ) It now has 8500klms on it (been spending too much time on the racer, and Melbourne's weather really sucks ) and i have not had any problems whatsoever with it. I must admit that I run a special oil though. It is called NEO synthetic. It's an american oil, diesther based apparently and works a treat. I have been using it for ten years and never had any lubrication related wear issues. I use it in my racers too

I troll the US forum occasionally and they also have few if any faults to report. Mostly it's operator error that I read about.

[swabio-ACT]

mine is running like a dream,

only issue I had was the damn gear lever bolt vibrating loose and falling out! I was stuck in 2nd or 3rd until I got to my mates place and put a temp one in. I then loctite'd the hell out of the replacement one when I got it!

Other than that it has been great

[nahima]

only issue I had was the damn gear lever bolt vibrating loose and falling out!

the same thing happened to a friend of mine who bought his ZX6 a couple of months before me...something worth watchnng out for.

[swabio-ACT]

Yeah, it sucked! I was not very damn happy at all, just lucky it was in a gear that I could ride a decent pace and still take off reasonably ok withough having to ride the hellout of the clutch

[diesel]

that's great now look at my new bike

[Kawastu]

Mines starting to get a Cam Chain rattle and i've only done around 300kms on the new fella.

Am I just being paranoid or just wait till the 1000km service and ask them then?

[Plaz]

Its porbably not a cam chain noise Stu, they are noisey bastatrds. Mine was noisy (rattley) as all hell, did the oil cahnge about 10 mins ago and its as quiet as a church mouse........till I twist my wrist