Sportbike recommendations for me?

Question

I am a very experienced rider. I am a MSF RiderCoach candidate. I have been looking for bikes fast, but found my financial plans are going to make me get a bike over the winter break. I should be on the road in the Spring, but I need to get some opinions on what kind of sportbike to get. My parents will allow me to get a 1000cc literbike.

I've ridden a 2005 R6, 2005 CBR600RR, 2006 GSXR600 and found that though fun, a 600 is a little doggy. Now I've ridden a 2002 R1, 2004 R1, 2002 ZX12R and found that they are extremely fun, and my insurance quote will go up slightly.

Any opinions on a 1000cc bike? Especially the RC51, SuperHawk, TL1000R, Ducati 996, Ducati 999R. I like the V-Twin torque, but the inline is so high strung that it's a rush when those secondary fuel injectors kick in.

Any owners give some insight please

Answer 1

i think you should consider starting small, maybe a nice used honda rebel for starters, then after about 30 years of experience... you can move up to a 400cc bike and see how that works.... but don't let all that power go to your head at once....lmao

go try a rotax

Answer 2

Please expound on "very experienced."  How many years have you actually ridden on the road?  The fact that your parents are dictating your financial decisions indicates that you are 18 or below, meaning that you have ridden for two years or less.

Learn to ride on the road before you get a really fast bike.  I don't care if you've been a roadracer since you were 5.  You don't yet know enough about riding a bike on public roads.  The fact that you have ridden 600cc supersports and found them "doggy" indicates that you are likely to ride irresponsibily on public roads.  Start with an SV650, max.

Edit:

It's good that you have race experience.  I, like you, started at a young age with dirt bikes.  I was 9, and rode and raced off-road until I was 16 or so.

But here's my point.  You know how to operate a motorcycle, presumably well.  That's half of what you need to survive on the street.  The other half is attaining the experience you need to assess and prioritize risks to you, and to deal with dangers that you never have to face on the track.  In other words, you need to learn how to deal with traffic.

You have been licensed for three years.  You have not ridden on the street regularly during that time.  You are not ready for a supersport yet.



Have you thought about a street supermoto?  Lots of fun.  Cheap.  Fast, in the right hands on the right road.  You won't be going 150 mph on one, but you have raced.  You know that anyone can turn a throttle.  Doing 150 mph isn't that fun, all by itself.  The most fun is in the corners.  Besides, think of the look on your friends' faces when you pass them on your KTM. . .

Answer 3

as far as reviews are concerned, I've read nothing but great things about the new ZX-10R, it's eating up the competition quick...

as for me, I like a bike I can ride all day, so any of the hypers are going to be a good choice...'busa, zx-14, beemer 1200, or 'bird

Also the new fireblades are just dead s**y. I LOVE the way they look...

ur bike, ur choice...go with your gut...

Answer 4

Would you consider a Buell?

Answer 5

I would just get a used sportbike that you can afford to buy outright and insure for a reasonable yearly rate.  I personally did not get a 1000 until last year and I was 30, had many years of riding street bikes the last 5 on a cBR600f4i.  I think you under rate the 600s quite abit but with limited experance I can understand your stance.  I never really needed to get a more powerful bike but I wanted one so I got a 1000 last year.  I have a few friends with the sv650s and everyone of them liked the bike.  The max power output really is not the best indicator of the bikes useable power.  My 1000 requires me to hold off opening the throttle a little further into a corner or else I slide the rear where the 600 was just a blast.  Any modern sportbike has plenty of power and every year the new ones are faster, to try and get the best is kinda like a dog chasing its tail.  If you truely intend to ride responciblely (which is impossible to do 100% of the time on a sportbike, I gave up trying about 5 minutes into the ride home from the dealership) a 600 will be just fine.  You can pick up a $3000 600 and have many seasons of fun trouble free riding.  By the way I raced dirtbikes as a kid also and found out I had alot to learn about riding on the street.  On the track you do not have to ride nearly as defencively as you will on the road.  Motorcycles are simply harder to see since they do not take up nearly as much space.  Add to it the fact that they offer far less (if any real) protection in a crash and you can clearly see why you have to be on the lookout.  In the end a bigger bike really is not any harder to learn on provided you can control your right wrist.  Do what you want but I was never disappointed in my 600 and still have it today, in fact I took the thing to work this morning.  I am sure you learned this in you motocross racing but the fastest bike rarely wins, the most skilled rider wins more often. I am sure I would have crashed my bike if I started out on a 1000, heck on the way home when I picked the bike up it shocked me on how high it power wheelied in second gear, if it was my first sportbike I would have flipped but since I had the 600 I was automatically covering the rear break and had no problem.  Have fun with whatever you choose but just be sure to finish school since it will allow you to get a much nicer bike when you are finished.

Answer 6

To Kyle.....

Roses are red and violets are blue

I'm skitzophrentic, and so am I.

I thought you were a full time hardcore biker? How many have you supposedly crashed? I agree with going to time out.

Answer 7

you can probably find a 2 year old low mileage cbr1000rr at a reasonable price if you hang around the track.

that would meet your performance criteria & should be about right for a man with your experience. be sure to wax it up & use a lot of armour all on the seat & tires so it will look new & shiny to your parents.

Answer 8

OK so i think getting a 1000 would be too much for you. when do you really need to be going 200 on the street?? the top speed on my 08 R6 is somewhere near 180 i dont have the balls to go any faster.

so in truth you're admitting that you want to ride irrisponsibly on the road because trust me you dont need anything over a 600 but if you want to die faster than me i'd say go look at the Aprilla 1000RR bike because if  i'm still alive at the end of my financing thats what im getting. good luck broski and i agree with the previous posts just because youve been riding track and dirt doesnt mean you can go on the street and dominate. ive been riding dirtbikes forever and its way different going 150 on a freeway tucked down rather than sitting up in dirt going a little over 100

triumph makes good bikes too, the 675 daytona is sick as **** if youre smaller in size im 6'5'' so i cant lol

Answer 9

What!!? all that smack talk you do and you don't own a bike

shame on you...now go sit in time out till your Mommy says you can got out and play.

Answer 10

i can go to the Sunday meeting and ride all those bikes in under an hour, and then make the same statement that i have ridden all those models. So what?

how many ACTUAL miles on the road do you have? track doesn't count because 1 - no traffic, 2 - no pedestrians, 3 - no obstacles. You can not consider dirt a very good street experience ether because all you do on dirt is have fun and do jumps.