Thanks guys!
I had been looking at buying an R6 forever. They're comfortable little bikes and the fuel mileage is great.
I'm really shocked at how this bike is highway geared, even though it's lacking so much bottom end. It's almost like turbo lag...almost. After 8,000rpm's it seems to come on pretty good, but below that it's pretty weak. First gear will go to over 100mph, no problem. The other day I saw 128 in second gear when I was racing the CBR1000RR. Of course the speedometers are off, but a liter bike with a 14,500rpm rev limiter is fun regardless.
A drag race from a dead stand with a great rider the R1 might be pretty close to the Z06 on the street, but from a roll the Z06 will wax that ass. The last 'Busa didn't believe it either until I took him out and schooled him. The acceleration just does not stop with that little 427 on the bottle. At the track most bikes just want to wheelie unless you lower and strap 'em. When I bought this bike I said I wasn't going to drag race it, but I'm already looking at buying a few goodies for it...I know it's a bad idea.
Topend the bikes tend to peter out somewhere around 180. Hell, I don't even shift the Z06 into 5th until 165 and it pulls HARD all the way there. After a couple seconds in 5th it's blowing past 180. 200 ain't shit.
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