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OH now i have to decide wat bike to get now!

Option 1:
'06 ZX636 $14k + ORC, 0km/s, 2 year warranty, 1 years rego (dealer, in hobart)

or

Option 2:
'04 ZX10R $13k roughly which includes, transport, transfer rego, 1 year rego 18,000k's. as new cond. (private, interstate!)

I like both bikes equally! Some aspects of the 6R appeal to me more such as the front, where as the sharp design of the 10R appeals more in that aspect. So visually they are even, power obviously speaks for itself! So i am just stumped!

could i please have some help deciding!

The 10 I reckon then you would not worry to upgrade

Saki that is the question i asked myself . My choice would be go the 10.

My wife wants a new car so there goes the newer bike for at least 12 months

You gotta consider a few things:

1. Insurance
2. How good a rider you are
3. Whether the 10 has been flogged etc

the 10 is a weapon, and you won't need to upgrade much further than that.

hmmm they are good answers and sort of where i am heading. But the other thing i am interested in, is why you would pick the 10 over the 6, obviously, not having to upgrade is a good one! wat about price wise, do u think the price is good for wat it is, judging by the pics the bike looks pretty good and i can't pick anything wrong with it!

red_dave wrote:You gotta consider a few things:

1. Insurance
2. How good a rider you are
3. Whether the 10 has been flogged etc

the 10 is a weapon, and you won't need to upgrade much further than that.

1. being "young" and having a bad drivign record, back in my turbo supra days! doesn't really work in my favour,

2. I am not claiming to b a pro by any means! but i always a very cautious and alert rider!

3. The bloke sounds very genuine, which i spose anyone would trying to sell there bike, but i know he has kids so one would assume having kids would make u think twice about being a hoon on the road, i should find out if its doen track time!

judging by the pics the bike looks pretty good and i can't pick anything wrong with it!

hahaha mate, u can't always buy bikes off pics !

hidepenny wrote:

judging by the pics the bike looks pretty good and i can't pick anything wrong with it!

hahaha mate, u can't always buy bikes off pics !

I never inteded to buy my REAL bike off pics, esp not at that price! but its more the idea, in an ideal world would u pick the 636 or the 10R!

Saki wrote:
3. The bloke sounds very genuine, which i spose anyone would trying to sell there bike, but i know he has kids so one would assume having kids would make u think twice about being a hoon on the road, i should find out if its doen track time!

Yep it makes hubby think alright, right up till he puts his leg over the bike, then thinks about it on the sedate ride up the drive way into the garage.

BUT yes he has said at times he has back off for the sake of us all.

Saki wrote:...in an ideal world would u pick the 636 or the 10R!

A C-model 10 is the only genuinely indimidating litre bike to have come out since the original R1. A n00b jumping onto one of them straight off their 250 is either going to result in Kishy strips a mile wide or a cheap trackbike for someone.

Instead of being so keen to go into hock for a near-new bike, you should be looking at a $6000 G-model ZX6, so you learn about big bikes, with their fat tyres, stiff suspension, touchy brakes and willful low-speed handling, on something which isn't going to ruin you financially should you trowel it.

What I-K said

The 10 is what we all want
The 6 we need, and could actually use

I would not jump to a 10 from a 250.... Hell the 600 is going to more than double (almost tripple) the horsepower plus there is nothing like owning a bike from new.... I am a great proponent of 600s..... They may not have the pure straight line accelleration of a 10, but they arent THAT far off..... By the time you get good enough to really utilise a 10 your 10 would be very old.... I say go the six.....

Saki, I thought you were already riding a medium size bike but it appears not the case. Dude the 10 as the guy in the shop said to me "point and shoot". Not a good step. Go the 600, even if you nabed an older model until you get used to the power, then get the 10. It is a huge jump in power/handling amonst other things. Personaly i jumped onto the 7r from a 250 but the power at first scared the shit out of me, you then calm down and learn to handle it the way that it required. The 7r being old school with carb and no EFI high response bigger power output think you could be asking for a track bike sooner than you could think. Also the car with party lights ontop would love to collect a licence. Sorry dude but i would go the mid size

frogzx12r Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:45 am Post subject:

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What I-K said

The 10 is what we all want
The 6 we need, and could actually use

In a nut shell

Get an earlier 6 as suggested then do what I'm doing. I've been buying bits for it to become my track toy when it's time to go for the 10. I'm doing it that way because I don't like the idea of taking a bike I just spent 17k on and lunching it at the track.

If this is your first bike after a 250, then I'd scrub the 10 off your list. It really will be too much bike too soon I think.

As I-K suggested an older 6 would be the go, perhaps even an 02/03 model or similar and then go from there. The things have more ability than 95% of riders could ever hope to use anyway and you'll save a bucket of money.

Good luck with it.