The new and future of sports bikes!?!?!?!?!?

[Huambo81a]

Well, i`m selling my sportsbike because i can no longer stand it. I`m lusting after a honking great heavy ass 2002 GSX1400, because the power is where i actually need it, so 90% of the time its a quicker bike anyway.

Plus, Sports bikes are becoming more and more unusable for people like me who do over 15000 miles a year. Possibly the only usable sports bike at the moment are the new Hondas which have struck the balance between power and actual comfort. The 2007 CBR600-RR is like a sofa compared to my 2003 ZX6R!!
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[Dom_]

Haha, this thread reminded me of what i saw last night. Waiting at some lights a few bikes came past going the other way.

All brand new gsxrs.

One black
One blue
One yellow
One more blue
and a green zxr.

Bet they all went in holding hands and put the deposit down at the same time an everything.

[Huambo81a]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Bikes are becoming more and more like football shirts.

They change them slightly every year to get more money, then racially change it every other year so you fork out over the odds for the most up to date kit, sorry bike.
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[01dabreoo]

Italian bikes always look the best imo
Need more italian 600-750s on the market

[tristan]

I think out of all the 2007 jap sportsbikes, the GSXR k7 thou is by far the best looking. Not the best we know (K4 is ;p) but it's growing on me.

As I found out ugly ass exhausts arebecause of all the emission euro 2/3 standards and sound etc.

[craigs23]

[Blunet600]

I just dont know whats going on, im 19, and im looking into the future thinking this is what i will be growing up seeing as the new era of sports bikes, and it sucks! they have seemed to become more pussy like (in appearance)
i.e the R6. The 2005 model compared to the new 2006 R6. The 05 model winds hands down! it looks 10x better. Its what i know sports bikes to be. The newer bikes just look empty without the side exhaust coming up higher.
I wouldnt mind a BMW GS one day.......

[froggeh]

Maybe I'm just weird. That 2nd R6 looks much nicer than the first IMO.

I really like the current CBR600
And I love my 2007 Hornet.

Oh well.

And that 'sportsbike' that ShaggyDA pictured... To me its possibly one of the foulest bikes I have seen in a while... :/

Sorry.

[Damon]

[Torque05]

TBH the new 10R looks amazing and i think the move away from underseat exhausts is more to do with motoGP and emissions rather than style. I quite like the CBR although its taken three reads of MCN to get used to.

The only new bike im waiting for is the Vmax which should easily obliterate the B-king in a straight line.
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[craigs23]

I wasn't implying that a quick flip through a Demon Tweaks catalogue implied the 'customisation' of one's bikes. More along the inspired 'obsession' bikes featured in PB.

Each to their own though.

[froggeh]

[craigs23]

It's kinda like hoping that the biking industry would make the two wheeled equivalent to the Maclaren SLR?

Performance doesn't need to be compromised by track biased credentials.

[colin1]

anything new looks strange at first

some people only ever like the bikes from the era when they first got into bikes
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[Ben.]

me thinks sports bikes peaked about 2 - 5 years ago, now i prefer the sport naked bikes, like this beauty
https://www.morini-riders-club.com/thebikes/photos/Corsaro/Corsaro%20Veloce.jpg
https://www.wallhits.com/data/media/15/Benelli%20Tornado%20Naked%20Tre%20SPORT%202006%2001_1280x960.jpg

or street fighters

https://www.soulreavers-mf.de/images/bikes/streetfighter_andy.jpg
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[binge]

New bikes look fine. its just the exhausts that let them all down! Big ugly squared off boxes!

Thank Fuck for Race cans!
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[SoND]

The new sports bikes are fine, they're practically race bikes, used for racing all over the world. Don't like it? Then don't go for such a focused bike. I like the way that balls-out performance is readily available and isn't limited to the professionals.

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