Hi, I'm thinking about selling my GSXR600 for a R1....I know their good, but who here can give me some advice...????
cheers
Steve

if you do get one......
take your time & learn its twitch limit

not a bike for the cack handed.............................

Gixer six and R1 - chalk and cheese mate. the r1 is much much more powerful than the six and much much more shapr in the steering department - hence Dave's twitch limit warning.

No reason why you shouldnt go for it though, just go easy and take time to appreciate the extra oomph. Brakes are fantastic too.

A mate was on an R1 and when he went to overtake a car in 3rd gear he whacked the throttle open and it kicked the arris of the bike right round.
They're a bit brutal but I'm trying to get my hands on one as well so if you get one before me tell me what they're like.

Bit like when i got my first zed - i needed to enter a roundabout 'positively' to take advantage of a gap , gave it the sort of handfull i used to give my seven fifty and entered the roundabout sideways, fishtailed round half of it and put it down to one of those 'how the hell did i get away with that' moments!

thanks for the advice, all I need to do now is sell the GSXR.
I think I'll go for the silver and black R1.

Are you thinking of a new one? you guessed it im in spam mode! If oyu are thinking of a new one let me know. I can do them for £7995 , main dealers do them for £9349 on the road. Oh im terrible arent i??

I would recommend a new one as they have had the power delivery smoothed out a little. The old ones where totally brutal compaired to the just plain brutal new ones. Not sure what the OEM tyre selection is on an R1 but I would make sure you had some top quality SS rubber on them and not your usual Dunslop Kak

cheers zombie, I'll let you know as soon as I sell my bike.

Are you a dealer then Zombie, if you don't mind me asking?

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