Best sports tourier

[Edbear]

Shame it's a Suzuki though as bits are bound to fall off it :-)

Oi!! I heard that!!

[Mamba]

Here are my picks in order for a mid-size "Sports Tourer", with pics, and of course all Japanese.

1: Honda CBR600F

2: Kawasaki ER6F

3: Yamaha FZ6S (Fazer)

4: Suzuki Bandit GSF600S/650S

5: Kawasaki ZZ-R 600

6: Suzuki GS500F

Thanks 4 that mate

I like ur first and the last option especially.

What r they like economicly?

[Hillbilly]

Well, to be honest, you get what you pay for. The GS500F is imported fully built up from Spain. When commentators/reviewers say it's "built to a price", they're right. It's a very good bike, a great workhorse, a tad uncomfortable (for me). The instruments are the same as the naked version, and there's only one light for both indicators. The GS500F also has an oil cooler. It comes shod (here at least) with H-rated Bridgestone Battlax BT-45's. It's an affordable good all-rounder that's a great commuter, has OK handling, but certainly not anything awe inspiring.

The CBR 600F is the darling! Apparently they're not going to be imported into Aussie any more, which is a shame. For the same money as a GS500F you could get an older CBR600F. If you really want a new bike with a 2 year warranty and don't want to spend more than $10k, then get a GS500F. However, if you can afford one, get a CBR600F. I've attached a pic of the GS500F instruments as well as a CBR600F(2) and for comparison with the '06 CBR600f, the CBR600RR. You won't be sorry. Now, 3 guesses as to what my next bike will be....

[kneescraper]

I would go with the CBR600 F3 -F4 or the VFR800 pre VTEC model...infact I know where one is for sale. Great looking bikes with plenty of comfort. After all they are Honda's...so you know it will last.

[skelstar]

Maybe haven't read very carefully, but is pillioning a issue/prerequisite?

[gav]

More importantly, how much money are you looking at spending?

[Grub]

Thanks 4 that mate
I like ur first and the last option especially.
What r they like economicly?

I can answer for the CBR600 as I've been keeping records. Pick your formula result

5.05 litres/100K
19.85 kms/litre
56.1 Miles per Gallon

This is commuting 60km each day and touring rides on the weekends. My commuting in nicer than most, I go from Porirua to Paraparaumu against the traffic but constrained mostly by 70kmh roadworks. Have been forced now to use Paekakariki Hill Rd now that it's opened and can manage a good clip along there ... except you have to be super careful around the tight stuff as there's wankers in work vans and utes all over the sodding road, my side and theirs, trying to peel tyres off rims.

BTW ... my bike cost me $3,200 on trademe and its a very good one. One with 180,000km which I rode was also a minter (but the mileage worried me) and a guy turned up with $2,000 folding and the seller took it.

That help?
Brett

[kneescraper]

One with 180,000km which I rode was also a minter (but the mileage worried me) and a guy turned up with $2,000 folding and the seller took it.

Dam thats a huge amount of KMs but its also very cheap....Doesnt Honda test their engines by sitting them near the limiter for a set time period and if it fails for any reason its back to the drawing board?

[Mamba]

I can answer for the CBR600 as I've been keeping records. Pick your formula result

5.05 litres/100K
19.85 kms/litre
56.1 Miles per Gallon

This is commuting 60km each day and touring rides on the weekends. My commuting in nicer than most, I go from Porirua to Paraparaumu against the traffic but constrained mostly by 70kmh roadworks. Have been forced now to use Paekakariki Hill Rd now that it's opened and can manage a good clip along there ... except you have to be super careful around the tight stuff as there's wankers in work vans and utes all over the sodding road, my side and theirs, trying to peel tyres off rims.

BTW ... my bike cost me $3,200 on trademe and its a very good one. One with 180,000km which I rode was also a minter (but the mileage worried me) and a guy turned up with $2,000 folding and the seller took it.

That help?
Brett

That halps heaps guys. thanks 4 the poasts.

I can aford around $7500. not 2 much more than thet, s I hope I'll find something in the price range

[Grub]

I can aford around $7500. not 2 much more than thet, s I hope I'll find something in the price range

Oops I need to correct the mileage on that bike it was 118,000 not 180

I personally wouldn't spenmd that much on a bike ... you can't be having as much fun as me at half th price Oh yep and if you're going the CBR way and since you're talking about sports/tourer, someone said the 2001 was the last comfortable CBR made. I'm not sure if the RR is less of a tourer but I would imagine so since its a race bike in disguise.

Brett

[steved]

That halps heaps guys. thanks 4 the poasts.

I can aford around $7500. not 2 much more than thet, s I hope I'll find something in the price range

You should be able to get a CBR600F3 (1995-1998) easily for that money, probably even a F4(1999-2001). Don't forget the VFR's though.

[steved]

Oh yep and if you're going the CBR way and since you're talking about sports/tourer, someone said the 2001 was the last comfortable CBR made. I'm not sure if the RR is less of a tourer but I would imagine so since its a race bike in disguise.

Brett

Yep. They talk about the F4i being the last of the comfortable sports 600s. The R6 changed the segment (far more track focused) and Honda and Kawasaki followed.

[scracha]

Yep. They talk about the F4i being the last of the comfortable sports 600s. The R6 changed the segment (far more track focused) and Honda and Kawasaki followed.

"comfortable sports 600s". That's like comparing the comfort of a lamborghini with a ferrari. They're not built for comfort, they're built for tracks and the occasional blast. Compare going two's up on a CBR600 with a ZR750 (did they have them here), GSX750F, or even a thunderarse (7 grand is thunderarse money) or ZX9. Out of the "sporty" 600's the only one's that I could even pretend to be comfortable on were the ZZR600 or the thundercat.

Think 7 grand also gets you some of the big triumphs and ZZR1100's but they're not so cheap to run.

Sports 600's are great if you're under 5ft 8 and only taking the pillion once in a blue moon though.

[steved]

"comfortable sports 600s". That's like comparing the comfort of a lamborghini with a ferrari. They're not built for comfort, they're built for tracks and the occasional blast. Compare going two's up on a CBR600 with a ZR750 (did they have them here), GSX750F, or even a thunderarse (7 grand is thunderarse money) or ZX9. Out of the "sporty" 600's the only one's that I could even pretend to be comfortable on were the ZZR600 or the thundercat.

Think 7 grand also gets you some of the big triumphs and ZZR1100's but they're not so cheap to run.

Sports 600's are great if you're under 5ft 8 and only taking the pillion once in a blue moon though.

Compare the ergonomics of an F3 with a CBR600RR. One is a hell of a lot more comfortable than the other.