07 ZX6R Review

Post by **Wattie** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:46 am

or just buy a 10

I-K · Post by **I-K** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:34 am

Wattie wrote:or just buy a 10

That would be boring, though.

varden · Post by **varden** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:13 am

i look forward to seeing these bikes in the wreck auctions in months to come

papa needs a new race bike!

ZX-10R_04 · Post by **ZX-10R_04** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 8:35 pm

Vid of 07 ZX-6R

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1titl9f ... ed&search=

Damon Z1000 · Post by **Damon Z1000** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:14 pm

Fark that is horn, I want one.

Looks fantastic in all green.

Oooooh yeah.

hidepenny · Post by **hidepenny** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:48 pm

bring it on - I reckon within 2 years there will be a GP-replica of the new 800cc bike...........some photoshopped pictures of this have already been doing the rounds.........

i'm so waiting for this...........hum............2 years is a good timing for me too

Zoidberg · Post by **Zoidberg** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:02 pm

Gosling1 wrote:
Barrabob wrote:....maybe even a 800 version.
bring it on - I reckon within 2 years there will be a GP-replica of the new 800cc bike...........some photoshopped pictures of this have already been doing the rounds.........

2008 would be nice

Zamo · Post by **Zamo** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:58 pm

Dont know if im gonna open a can of worms here but id doesnt really look all that different to the 06,modded front end is all i can really notice as a major change and cc's obviously.
It would be 06 for me.

Zamo · Post by **Zamo** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:25 pm

found this worth a look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uxg887ws4s

Zoidberg · Post by **Zoidberg** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:31 pm

I'm pretty sure Kawasaki's argument is that if you're after a 600 with midrange grunt for more user friendliness then get an er6. Kawasaki are just trying to follow the sales trends and at the moment, race winning, peaky R6's are the thing to have.

Plaz · Post by **Plaz** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:03 am

zamZX6R wrote:Dont know if im gonna open a can of worms here but id doesnt really look all that different to the 06,modded front end is all i can really notice as a major change and cc's obviously.
It would be 06 for me.

Yeah its pretty much identical to the 05/06............except the frame, fairings, tank, head lights, mirrors, seat, tail, exhaust, engine and swing arm.

Same wheels and brake rotors though

Zoidberg · Post by **Zoidberg** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:00 pm

Plasma Blue 636 wrote:
zamZX6R wrote:Dont know if im gonna open a can of worms here but id doesnt really look all that different to the 06,modded front end is all i can really notice as a major change and cc's obviously.
It would be 06 for me.
Yeah its pretty much identical to the 05/06............except the frame, fairings, tank, head lights, mirrors, seat, tail, exhaust, engine and swing arm.

Same wheels and brake rotors though

In fairness, the 07 model does look like an evolution of the 05/06 model rather than a radically new bike like the current R6 and GSR-R600 are from their previous model.

I-K · Post by **I-K** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:06 pm

Zoidberg wrote:n fairness, the 07 model does look like an evolution of the 05/06 model rather than a radically new bike like the current R6 and GSR-R600 are from their previous model.

Look closer.

Apart from the suspension, the wheels and the brakes, they've changed pretty much everything. The motor, for starters, owes next to nothing to what came before it... previous ZX6's didn't have an extractable-cassette gearbox, for one.

Just because it's got the same humpbacked silhouette from side-on doesn't make it an evolutionary design.

I-K · Post by **I-K** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:28 pm

Zoidberg wrote:I'm pretty sure Kawasaki's argument is that if you're after a 600 with midrange grunt for more user friendliness then get an er6.

That was a dumb thing to write when Tor Sagen blurted it on Raptors&Rockets a few months back, and it hasn't got any smarter in the meantime... the ER-6 is a commuter. Someone in the market for a sportsbike is not going to even consider one of those.

Kawasaki are just trying to follow the sales trends and at the moment, race winning, peaky R6's are the thing to have.

Unless Honda start selling their new, ballsier CBR600RR by the boatload.

Going on the launch reports, the new ZX6 is just as breathless below 10,000rpm as the R6. That means it's going head to head with a bike which already has an established reputation among the poseurs, while abandoning the niche it has carved out for itself among people who buy a bike for the road first, track a distant second and posing on the servo forecourt an even more distant third.

That's a dumb business decision.

Barrabob · Post by **Barrabob** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:39 pm

I-K wrote:
Zoidberg wrote:I'm pretty sure Kawasaki's argument is that if you're after a 600 with midrange grunt for more user friendliness then get an er6.
That was a dumb thing to write when Tor Sagen blurted it on Raptors&Rockets a few months back, and it hasn't got any smarter in the meantime... the ER-6 is a commuter. Someone in the market for a sportsbike is not going to even consider one of those.

Kawasaki are just trying to follow the sales trends and at the moment, race winning, peaky R6's are the thing to have.
Unless Honda start selling their new, ballsier CBR600RR by the boatload.

Going on the launch reports, the new ZX6 is just as breathless below 10,000rpm as the R6. That means it's going head to head with a bike which already has an established reputation among the poseurs, while abandoning the niche it has carved out for itself among people who buy a bike for the road first, track a distant second and posing on the servo forecourt an even more distant third.

That's a dumb business decision.

Maybe the idea is its easier to fix the gearbox if it just slides out

its a kawaskai idea that gearbox i am sure and i wouldn't think it would cost to much to re engineer the clutch arrangement too so you have a smooth changing thing that lasts rather than something that looks like it was designed in the 1920s.

Must be getting old but a z1000 with a fairing and sportsbike suspension would do me, ynow usd forks and shokie i would probably throw in the bin first chance i got.

Back on topic the six is a good thing for what it is designed for wizzing around a track real fast and the occaisonal mountain blat.