From a thou back to a 600 or WHY?

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

L4 GSXR1000 currently. Do I sack it off and get a 2017> R6? I've ridden litre bikes for the last 5 years perhaps, and might fancy a change. There's not another litre bike I want (RSV4 maybe, but a little explodey).

I still like sports bikes so think this is the way. Any other suggestions?

I use the bike mainly for commuting over an hour each way, it's not just motorway (A/B roads too), but I do a bit of motorway work every day.
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I do fancy a play on the latest R6 - but I like my commuting to be as lazy as possible, or at least to have the option to be as lazy as possible - so the litre bike would definitely still win for me.

Saying that, if there was decent back roads to play on, with not so much traffic to dice with generally, I think I'd probably go for the smaller bike.

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[Kentol750]

Ktm superduke.
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[RhynoCZ]

Smaller engines mean more revs at still reasonable pace/speed and that is where the fun is. To be quick, not fast.

Everyone, every now and then, wants to push a bike to its limits. You won't be able to do that on a liter, on the open road.
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[Fisty]

How about a big twin?
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[UncleFester]

Z1000SX gets my vote - love mine and when you take the factory luggage off, there's no ugly rails on show as the luggage clips are built into the grabrails.

Full LED lights, 2 power modes, 6 axis sensor for traction / cornering ABS ( you can turn it off ).

Genuinely a nice thing to commute on or have fun on.
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[MarJay]

Street Triple RS.
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

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[MarJay]

[MarJay]

Actually if I had no bikes, and I wanted a fun bike for messing around on... it would likely be an S1000R sport... They are amazing value right now, and I don't think anyone needs more than 150bhp on the road...
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Remember kids, bikes aren't like lego. You can't easily take a part from one bike and then fit it to another.

[UncleFester]

The answer is almost always more bikes! Where enough bikes is N + 1 and N is the current number of bikes you have.
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[Old Git Racing]

Gsxr 750, best of both worlds.

OGR.
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[Pigeon]

Anything without a fairing, you'd probably miss on an hour commute (if there is a fair bit of multi-lane roads).
Swapping between my faired / unfaired bikes does make it really noticeable. But like anything, you just adjust / accept its limitations on some areas to get the gains in others.


765 with a fairing would be spot on I reckon.....Daytona must be due soonish, but will be expensive initially.

I really wanted a GSXR-750 for the very reason I wanted more power then Street Triple, but not so much more it became boring.

Unfortunately the 750 seems to have less availability than the litre and prices+mileage are proportionally higher as a result.
In the end I went with the litre because of that. The extra weight is noticeable.

So yeah, another vote for 750 if you can find one you want and don't mind paying.