Do Gsxr1000's have frame cracking issues?

[Patch]

On the K3 Thou it wasn't the frame but the BE bearings that was the issue on some.

P.O.S. Suzukis, I ain't buying another one, especially when you can't modify it to its full potential in this country. Wouldn't buy a Sangsang thing either. Fuck those cunts.

[Robert Taylor]

zx6r - not as nice, test rode recently, akin to sitting on a tilted ironing board
D 675 - drinks oil, watch the oil level constantly
GSXR 600 K& - as near to perfect as damnit, esp with K&N air filter and Micron exhaust = stronger bottom end

Sorry but the high speed rebound damping in the GSXR600s forks ( or total lack of it ) spoils an otherwise good bike, but it is fixable. THERE IS NO PERFECT BIKE

[onearmedbandit]

, I ain't buying another one, especially when you can't modify it to its full potential in this country.

Huh? What you talking about?

[MaxB]

Here here! I wonder if I can find somebody who would straight-swap my bike for a decent bike , like a ZZR1100 maybe? I wish.................

Thanks for the offer but I'll stick with what I've got! The money has been spent to get the the zed just how I like it.

Seriously, I have owned my fair share of big Suzukis, I like 'em.... but in my experience they do go wrong relative to the other Jappas. YMMV.
Will it stop me buying another Suzuki? No.

[DEATH_INC.]

The K6 thou broke through the middle of the casting. It's just TOO damn thin. There is a limit of how light things should be built. They do it to make 'em light and rigid, but unfortunately the price of rigidity is brittleness.
I,ve seen a k6 750 broken clean through the centre of the weld, just like when you weld two incompatible metals together.

[dipshit]

Wondering if mr suzuki desighned em to take the kind of impact a mono can at times inflict?

I doubt it. Considering how everybody would moan and whinge and carry on like it was the end of the world if next year's model came out 4 or 5 kgs heavier.

Fork seals, steering head bearings and wheels aren't overengineered to withstand the forces involved with wheelies or stopies. These are well-known areas to look for if purchasing a second-hand bike in case it was owned by a cowboy before. So I would not expect the frame on a cutting edge performance sports bike to be engineered for such abuse either.

[dipshit]

A good example here...

[Paulus]

Any of you guys that are keen cyclists will have seen this happening a lot in the cycling world for many years now. You can't keep making things thinner and lighter without compromising their fatigue life. I'm sure most of us would rather have a bike that was 2-3kg heavier and have a long frame life - I know I would. One thing that worries me is buying one of these things in a few years time when the ones which haven't been abused so much approach a similar point in their fatigue lives. I guess that most will have been written off before then (as seems to be the nature of big sports bikes).

[Swoop]

Photos don't lie.

You obviously haven't heard of Photoshop.