Would you still buy a 750?

[Urano]

750 is the upper limit of my ideal bike.

still prefer 600
and still dreaming of the return of proper 500 sport bikes

couldn't care less of having 100000000000000 hp, if you give me a hun more or less it's enough.
i'd be much more happy with 10 kg less.

[jaffaonajappa]

and still dreaming of the return of proper 500 sport bikes

2 Strokes?
Hmmmmm.....cant see that happening. Mind you - I hear theres a factory full of bimota strokers somewhere in Italy?

I remember the old GPZ500 being fairly effective in F3 many moons ago.

I still have fond memories of a hotted up 916 with reasonable rider onboard, trying overtake me on my old ZX6. Took him about an hour. At the time, - this is about 5 years ago, I was thinking - why the Hell is anyone buying anything bigger than these? Bother would spit you off if you mistimed a corner exit, both were doin over 240kph straight line - and both got to 200kph pretty damn fast.

Mind you - its great when your in ur 20's I guess

[Urano]

no, 4 stroke it's good anyway.
600 cc 4 stroke is an around-hun engine.
my last er6, 650, had 75 hp and was great. gimme 80-85 and i would be glad. 100 as the new cbr600f (the hornet s ) it's even too much.

as said, with something around that it would be better to have a 10kg less.


(then, if you want my opinion, i still believe that 2 strokes is a better engine than the 4. simpler, lighter, more efficient. unfortunately is even less compliant to the environmental regulations, but i firmly believe that making the 2 stroke adequate for that should not be so impossible. it would only take an amount of development that no factory wants to put on the table, especially when there is something much more tested as the 4 strokes....)

[specter]

suppose i am a bit biased but i love my gsxr. has enough torque to pootle around town in high gear and also have enough grunt to go hard on trackdays...

excelent bike, really wouldn't need any more!

[boman]

Have a ride of a 600 and a 750. The difference is disproportionate to the cc increase.

Agreed. I have ridden both, whilst looking for a replacement steed. The 150 cc makes all the difference.

[short-circuit]

Would you still buy a 750 or are litres so small these days I may as well just get the big one?

Neither - 675cc is absolutely perfect

[slowpoke]

Have a ride of a 600 and a 750. The difference is disproportionate to the cc increase.

Agreed. I have ridden both, whilst looking for a replacement steed. The 150 cc makes all the difference.

That's because the 750 is a bike that racing forgot. As a result the 6 hundy is a gutless wuss of a thing under 10krpm and realistically you need more than that for enthusiastic forward progress. In comparison the 750 has no racing aspirations and has been recreated as a sports road bike, with decent midrange and no stratospheric redline.

The limited information you've given makes it impossible to say which way you should go. Less hp means there's a lil' more concentration available for the other facets of track work, but sheer hp can be more fun than a ferret down your trousers.

Make your own choice and fuck what everyone else thinks.

[Ender EnZed]

In the case of high power per litre inline 4s then sure, a GSXR750 makes as much or better sense than a GSXR1000. Is there any other 750 that compares to the GSXR though?

There are plenty of bikes bigger than 750cc that make perfectly good sense on NZ roads, in many situations much more than a GSXR750. I'm sure a case could be made for just about any bike that doesn't have lots of Rs in it's name.

I still have fond memories of a hotted up 916 with reasonable rider onboard, trying overtake me on my old ZX6. Took him about an hour.

A 916 has about the same power as a ZX6. Which isn't at all surprising given that it's a v-twin compared to an inline 4.

[gatch]

I ride a 400 so I wouldn't know..

Just to me it would seem most are basing their opinions of these bikes, on when they are ridden in attack mode. Surely a gsxcbzxyzfr1000 would be fine if ridden sedately. People use busas as touring bikes.. People seem to get around on rocket 3s ok.. ZX14, blackbirds etc..

Or something.

[onearmedbandit]

Yup a thou is too much for the road. In the same way that any sportsbike 600cc and above is. But just more so.

However here's the thing, there is no perfect answer to what is best. Just what suits you best.

That's enough from me on this subject, I've got more important things to use the internet for, like finding out just what will make my dick bigger, and watching tutorial video's on youtube on riding betterer.

[Katman]

I've got more important things to use the internet for, like finding out just what will make my dick bigger

[unstuck]

Makes mine bigger.

[onearmedbandit]

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Good idea, but my thou is modified. I'm thinking I need something more like this...

[AllanB]

I think you need to revise your question to a hp figure.

My 900 Hornet (actually 919 cc - I feel the '900' sticker short changes me and implies my penis is smaller than it really is) is good for a claimed 114 hp - there are 600's with that now. Not the low or midrange grunt of my bike which is what I like to surf.
Some excellent around 100hp big bores - GSX1400, GS1200ss, Grisso, many HD's etc.

Like the Bonnies, but I'd really like a 999cc Bonnie twin!

[boman]

That's because the 750 is a bike that racing forgot. As a result the 6 hundy is a gutless wuss of a thing under 10krpm and realistically you need more than that for enthusiastic forward progress. In comparison the 750 has no racing aspirations and has been recreated as a sports road bike, with decent midrange and no stratospheric redline.

The limited information you've given makes it impossible to say which way you should go. Less hp means there's a lil' more concentration available for the other facets of track work, but sheer hp can be more fun than a ferret down your trousers.

Make your own choice and fuck what everyone else thinks.

True. I ended up with a 675. Only because the exhaust sounded so much better than the 750. It really came down to a coin toss. The 750 did everything for me. Plenty of grunt, and great handling too. The 600 on the other hand, I actually disliked riding. It had no go at all, under 10krpm, as you said.

And I agree "Make your own choice and fuck what everyone else thinks."