PROS and CONS of getting a GSXR1000???

Question

Well im about to turn 17 years old and I want a hardcore looking bike and I really like the GSXR1000....but every friend of mine says that the GSXR1000 is not good for beginners.....How could it not be good for beginners?? And also everyone says I will get killed riding the GSXR1000......which makes no sense because I know my limits and I will never go above the speed limit on the bike I wont race it I wont speed with it or nothing but every is like OMG ur gonna die. Please help cuz this bike is sooo sooo cool.

Answer 1

well kid..

you start with Vespa ET2... then Hyosungn GT125 r .....then a yamaha r6 and after that GSX R 1000 (by the time u r 20 years old)

you r simply too young to ride gsx r 1000

AND u r too young to know you " LIMITS"

tc

Answer 2

so there is a 400 mile stretch, and you are going to be going 65-75 mph the whole way without splitting traffic and such?

your 17 (little less hot headed than me...im 21), and you "know" your limits.

please...stop lying to yourself. you dont know your limits. and on GSXR1000 the FIRST gear is much more than your limits. i aint even talking about wide open throttle on 5th gear in 50mph turn.

get a cruiser if you want something "hardcore" looking. why sport bike? you will crash (even a little drop) will run you $1000+ because of expensive plastics and such.

But anyway...

if you not listen to all the people in the world telling you to start with a 250 or a 500 and get a 600cc or even better - 1000cc. please get a pink sticker dot on your license which says that you are an organ donor... some lucky fella might use something from your body.

god be with you, and i hope i never meet you on the road. no hard feelings, but squids belong to the cars... not bikes.

Answer 3

Get a 600cc engine sport bike as your first bike and most novice riders would wreck, get severally injured or get a major speeding ticket on a Gsxr 1000 bike within the first 1-2 yrs. There is not much difference in the 0-100 mph speed between a 600 cc gsxr and a 1000 cc gsxr and the big difference is the top end speed.

I have been riding for 35 yrs and my first bike was a little dirt bike and I am so glad I learned on the dirt before I got a big displacment sport bike because I would of probably k_lled myself.

Trust me on this.

Answer 4

Speaking from experience, get a 500 or 600cc bike to start out with.  Even bikes in this range can be awesome.  Besides you'll get a lot better fuel mileage with a 500-600cc bike than a 1000cc bike.  

Most bikes don't have a 400 mile range on a tank of gas.

Answer 5

Pros: Will look good when you first get it.

Cons:  You will drop it, and it may not be pretty

I don't care how careful you will be, this is way too much bike for you. I know four people who have had serious accidents on GSXR 1000s.  Two survived, two didn't.  Two of those people had accidents on the same bike, I've named the bike Christine.

My boyfriend has a 07 GSXR 1000 and he has been riding for years. He and his friends who have them have shared their stories with me. So I know quite a bit about the bike.  I am a begininer and I wouldn't even consider riding his bike down around the block.

You have all the time in the world to get your skills up to the point of riding a 1000.  That bike is fast, and it is powerful, and it will come up on you very easily.   Please reconsider if you plan on being around for  a while.

Answer 6

Why not a Gixxer thou?

It's because you have NO IDEA what the bike will do, and you DO NOT possess the skills necessary to ride any motorcycle, let alone one that takes very finely honed skills to ride safely.

What if you got in your car and started driving, and when you turned the wheel only a tiny bit the car spun, flipped end-over-end, and turned into a smoking heap?  A Gixxer handles THAT FAST, and a literbike will just make the speed at which you crash it much higher.

It's great that you think you know your limits, because that bike will take you SO FAR beyond them before you can even think!  When that happens, the hard-wired biological reaction is to freeze up, and it's a safe bet that it will happen to a NEWBIE such as yourself in the first fast turn you try and take.

Of course, you can ignore the NUMEROUS people that KNOW what we're talking about and buy it anyway, and at that point insurance isn't going to matter since you'll be dead.

If all you want is "cool" then stay off motorcycles.

Answer 7

Years ago I had my first big sportbike. It was a GSX1100K Katana. At the time it was one of the fastest bikes made. It would be like buying a 'Busa in today's market. I had been riding for years, and when I left my friends driveway, I gave it just a little too much gas and the rear end shot out. I almost put it down right there.

There are situations where a new rider is going to react by grabbing a big handfull of throttle. On a Ninja250, you will brobably be fine. On a GSXR1000, you will be on the ground.

There is nobody saying you won't survive a GSXR1000 as a first bike, but the odds are, you will end up wrecking it. For most purposes, the GSXR1000 is too much bike for the street anyway. The only reason you probably want one is because it says 1000 instead of 600 or 250.

A beginning rider isn't going to use most of the performance of a 250 anyway, and everything a 600 offers over it will probably be lost to you. The difference between that and a 1000? You won't even tap into it once.

There is a reason Jason Britten rides a GSXR600. It he thinks it's enough, it is sure as h**l going to be enough for a newb like yourself.  

Answer 8

Let me tell you being 19 years old and riding a literbike like the GSXR1000. (04 R1)

It's a bullet sitting in between your legs, capable of flipping itself over quite easily until you are at 100mph. If you give that thing too much throttle it will go up in a second and have you *** on the ground. If you're leaned over it will kick out with the slightest blip of throttle.

You must posses a massive amount of willpower, responsibility, and skill because it's so powerful...

You're going to get raped on insurance. Get ready for a huge premium.

PROS: You can beat most anything on the street.

Just get a 600, they are plenty fast and can whoop 500-600 hp cars still. Unless you're up against a Veyron a 600 is going to win. Less on insurance too.

If you need to go fast take it to the track.

Get a helmet a FULL GEAR. I wear a chest protector/back protector vest. (ICON) http://www.kneedraggers.com

also

take a MSF class

http://www.msf-usa.org

Answer 9

Assuming you know your limits, the GSX-R1000 is a fine bike.

But you might want to consider the cost of insurance. In California, the insurance cost of a GSX-R1000 is much higher when compared to a GSX-R750.

Answer 10

"Im telling you I wont speed and I will drive smart."

Yeah, ok.

I'm taking bets. Anyone give me ten-to-one?

**EDIT** - You may "know your limits", but on what? What motorcycling experience do you have? Without it, you have no frame of reference.

Answer 11

Straight up- I'm 19 years old. I'm a pretty responsible dude, cautious, not prone to doing stupid stuff. But, there's more to it than that.

For one thing, say you hit a pothole, and you give it a throttle bump by mistake. You can be flipped over on your *** faster than you know.

Being able to do a power wheelie at 90 is cool, if you're into that kinda thing- being able to loop the bike while putting around town is not.

Second- you're gonna push limits. It's part of being a guy. For now, it's easy to say that you won't speed, or corner hard, etc. It took me pretty much no time to be trying to beat my previous top speed through the curve near my house.

Three- crazy brakes on that bike with eff you over. Even if you drive super safe, and obey the speed limit, it's pretty likely you'll be making an emergency stop, and lock the front brake, and wind up asphalt surfing. It's also very likely you'll lock up the rear in a turn, let it off, and high-side yourself into the hospital. I've seen it done plenty of times. Many people freak out about the power of the RR bikes, but they tend to overlook the dangers of the brakes.

Four, frankly, costwise, it isn't worth it. Get yourself a GS500F or something, get some skills, and then come back for a big bike later.