Yama got the specs wrong?

[Sniper]

Sniper and SPB are gonna get a kickin tho

OK, I admit it, the orange is kinda gay

[Firefight]

on paper, the 04 R6 and 636 are equal:

never mind the bloody paper put the fuckin things on the road and see.

F/F

[Gremlin]

Thats how people end up with kumansukmes.....they do orange!

wrong, weird opinions like that make you end up with a gixxer. You can't figure out what you want, so you go and buy a gixxer hoping it will save your bacon.

No orange on my kwaka thats coming... ewwww. Its got purple instead

[bugjuice]

never mind the bloody paper put the fuckin things on the road and see.

F/F

but then that's down to the rider, isn't it *insert sarcasm here*

and there's nothing wrong with orange people. love it, don't hate it

[2much]

there's 650s and now a 675.. what's yer point..
they didn't come in orange anyway

There was only one 650 four cylinder (that I can think of) and that was just a temporary fix for a year, the rest are twins so are in a totally different class and don't count. And the 675 is a triple so is eligible for the supersport class.

I agree, why didn't they make the 636 a 750 to compete directly with the Gixxer??? That's what they should do.

[FlyingDutchMan]

I revved the ol' CBR further than that when I found false neutral

Don't believe that tacho... it lies and the needle has momentum. It is impossible to make it go higher than the rev limiter unless you drop a gear while it is already red-lining

[cowpoos]

To my laymans way of thinking it looks like the R6 would be harder to ride than the GSXR- you'd always having it spinning harder and probably changing gears more often too. I can't help thinking Yamaha are going in the wrong direction- it's the same with the 1000's, all of the competition have a better torque spread and are making more power at lower revs. The peak power is similar, but the Yammies have to rev harder to achieve it.

my bet is that this bike will be by far superiour to even a average rider than all the other bikes in the class.....that hugew over rev function is a massive advantage to have even if it has less HP [which I doubt]

right...when coming up to a corner you can stay in a lower gear at high rev's well beyond the peck HP...and as you slow through the bend the rev's will drop to or near or not far below peak HP...and having peak HP there for a exit will make this bike blinding fast out of corners....another example will be if ytour on a really fast sweeper gaining speed as you go your not gunna need to change gear while leaned over...my bet is this engine will revelotionise this class...and I hate yamaha's.....so it takes alot for me to praise this bike...but I respect the engineering point of veiw...

[cowpoos]

yup, seems like it

no it is not inacurate...its designed that way for a porpose... one day some magazine with half a brain will work out why the engine was designed that way and give everyone a reason for "dummies"

[bugjuice]

for what it's worth, a mate in the US just sent me this...

"I just got off the phone with yamaha corporate and here is what i found: the guy i spoke with took my question to technical and marketing, he also made them aware of yamaha canada's site still having the 17,500 posted when yamaha-us had changed theirs changed. the 17,500 according to factory is a mechanical redline, meaning the bike is capable of 17,500 but has a limit set in the ecu for 16,000 or so. Marketing said that was the number they wanted to push and so they did. He also told me that if graves has it at 16,000 that is NOT A FLUKE AND THAT IS THE NUMBER WE SHOULD EXPECT WITHOUT CHANGING THE ECU. He also went on to tell me that internally GRAVES MOTORSPORTS HAD ALREADY APROACHED THE FACTORY WITH THE QUESTION ABOUT THE BIKE NOT HITTING 17,500 BUT IN FACT HITTING 16,000. He also told me that marketing is now looking into changing the web site to reflect where the real rev-limit kicks in. He said that change could take place in a day or so,and they are in contact with yamaha canada about updating there web-site, but he explained yamaha canada is a separate company so wether they will or not remains to be seen. He did however guaranty me that no there 600 will touch this bike on the track for fact and in his voice he was as sure of that as he was sure about breathing. This guy never once tried to bullshit me and was very helpful. On a side note he said all the wharehouses will be releasing all the bikes over the next 2 weeks"

[nudemetalz]

Very interesting, Bugjuice. Thanks for taking the time to inform us