Do Gsxr1000's have frame cracking issues?

[FROSTY:Me]

Its become modern myth that The GSXR thou's have weak frames that break easily.
Is this true or just a local legend?

[Finn]

6 year old Chinese boys aren't the worlds best welders are they.

[Pussy]

A lot of welds on gixxers look like something a seagull with the squitters would have done

[justsomeguy]

Well we've seen a few crashes here on KB where the bastards broke in half. Though all the broken frames I remember seem to be K5+ bikes.

Puts me off buying one.... maybe one should stick to the K3/K4....

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/9314629/detail.html

http://www.1tail.com/sa/news/s/defau...E87EFDF1809%7D

http://www.motorcycle.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2808

[SixPackBack]

Its become modern myth that The GSXR thou's have weak frames that break easily.
Is this true or just a local legend?

Bullshit. You crash 'em they break.

[justsomeguy]

Bullshit. You crash 'em they break.

Yes, sometimes though a bike is repairable, with a broken frame it's a write off.

On a ride with mates one day a guy on a new 06 thou smacked into the side of a car at under 100kms. He bounced over the car, got up and walked back. The bike frame cracked near the welds??

[justsomeguy]

Bullshit. You crash 'em they break.

Bit sad ..... as they really are my dream bike. Especially your colour scheme.

[FROSTY:Me]

Not being a smart ass here but I wondered if the issue is the thous ease of lifting the front end.
Wondering if mr suzuki desighned em to take the kind of impact a mono can at times inflict?

[YellowDog]

Probably not unreasonable. Surviving a 100kph bash is quite an achievement for both rider and bike.

High performance in motorsports demands light weight construction, which will not be as strong.

It would be intersting to find some crash test data and compare the findings for each model.

[Disco Dan]

Friends old vtr thou snapped at the headstock welds after a 40kmph t-bone with a car.

...Bikes are usually fine until you crash them

[boomer]

What a contrived way to make a conversation track the way you want it....!


On a side note, my gixxers made out of stickle bricks and just sitting in the garage bits fall of.


Cheap priced, Japanese mass produced crap; What ya expect

[Mental Trousers]

What a contrived way to make a conversation track the way you want it....!


On a side note, my gixxers made out of stickle bricks and just sitting in the garage bits fall of.


Cheap priced, Japanese mass produced crap; What ya expect

Buy a Honda. You know you want to.

As far as I'm aware there's been something done to each one that broke that aided it. Either the bike was previously crashed or some drilled a hole or something along those lines. The recent models seem to be on the cutting edge of how much you can slim down a bike though, which means they are easier to break.

Cynical bastards reckon Suzuki design them so that any decent impact means the bike gets written off and insurance buys a new one.

[DEATH_INC.]

Friends old vtr thou snapped at the headstock welds after a 40kmph t-bone with a car.

...Bikes are usually fine until you crash them

Yeh, but they were well known for being shit too.
Good example, Gixser crashed his same place, same speed etc. as I crashed mine, Mine needed glass work and an engine cover, his needed the frame welding together..... not the only one I've seen/heard of.
Figure it out for yourself....

[ArcherWC]

Every time I have ridden with K6/K7 Gixer thous lately, we have had to stop and wait when one of them has "broken", examples are, bits falling off, front brakes going south, missing, holed radiator (ok that last one could happen to anyone, but it was the gixer of course).

Im starting to think we need a Gixer recovery vehicle rather than a Harley one

[bugjuice]

k, from what I've heard from topper' bods and found out, and makes sense; frames nowadays are incredibly light and strong. They're designed to be at their maximum strength nailing round bends, design to flex as least as possibly etc. They tried new lighter materials to do this, then squids go break them and winge cos their frame is snapped. They're not designed to crash, they're designed to go fast. If they were designed to crash, then they'd be twice the weight.

So in retrospect, yes, they have a 'myth' of them breaking, but mostly because people crash them or treat them to rough and they give, so the have a cry about it.

as for the electrics on them and other things, well they're their own issues

can't believe I'm defending zookies too..