Fast Bike 400's

[aha-shake]

Anyone catch the article in latest Fast Bike on giving a new lease of life to 400's?

The concept gixxer looked lush.. they made some fair points, I for one wish they still actively made sports 400's.

There was also a review and the ZXR whipped the rest by far

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[getyerkneedow...]

Yay! That bodes well as i just managed to source a garage where i can stick my 89' ZXR and start restoring it.

C'mon!

[minesweeper]

A ragged Fzr, an non functioning gsxr and an overpriced example rvf vs a good zxr. If they are going to bother could have at least made it a fair matchup

matty
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[killa]

I thought the main manufacturers had some 400's coming out.

Aimed at the younger market
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[minesweeper]

Not sports 400's mainly just 600 bikes with the engines resleeved to 400 so not worth having.

If gp 2 stroke 250's change to 4stroke 400's with 125 2 strokes switching to 200 4stroke we might see alot more 400cc race replicas.

matt
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[palmer]

125cc 2stroke vs a 4stroke 200? would a 4t 250 not be a better match in power?

[minesweeper]

I was thinking more to match the 800cc gp class, 400cc then 200cc would make the most sense but doubt they will dump 125cc-250cc strokers as changing to 4strokers would be time consuming and expensive.

matty
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Rvf400, 955i daytona, 954 fireblade, cbr1000rr fireblade 06 Hm plant

[Deano]

im a lover of 400's as everyone knows but i think they'll be doin a wrong'en by changing 250 2t to 400 4t. i think its perfect as it is.

[Itchy]

there probably is a gap in the market , I've seen one from my POV,

in that commuters are generally grp 1-10 ,

the next sports 600s are generally around grp14-17

sports 1000s or super exotics are grp 16-20



jumping 4 insurance groups has got to hurt the wallet a bit , which is why I fancy an NC30 grp 12 , but no massive top end which I'll never ever use anyway.
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[johnsilva]

i thought the highest bike insurance group was 17
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