RS,GPZ, NSR, CBR, GSX-R blah blah blah...

MementoMori · World Chat Champion Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Karma :

I was just wondering why motorcycle manufacturers use letters with which to name a particular bike model. I think that sticking an 'f' on the end of a certain bike's 'name' means it's faired or something, (i.e the Suzuki GS500F) but I am interested to know if the actual letters have any meaning, or are they just... in a sense, made up?

Thanks.
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Ste · Not Work Safe Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Karma :

The more letters there are in the name, the better bike it is. And putting an R on the end of the name makes the bike go faster but putting two R's on makes it go even faster!

Razz

NSR125-Kid-UK · Attention Whore Joined: 03 May 2003 Karma :

It's vaguely simple.

F = Faired (i.e. GSX600F)
R = Racing (i.e. NSR125R)
RR = Race Replica (i.e. ZX6RR)

There are others floating about but these are really the only ones I see on a regular basis.
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paulthewitt · World Chat Champion Joined: 17 May 2004 Karma :

another couple are:

"F I" = Fuel - injected
"I" = Injected

Paul

veeeffarr · Super Spammer Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Karma :

X on GSXR refers to the cylinder configuration as far as I know.

Kickstart · The Oracle Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

Hi

No real pattern at all. They just make it up as they go along, and each go their own paths.

For example Suzuki 4 cylinder bikes were called GS. When they brought the 4 valve versions out they were called GSX. Then the race replica came out which was the GSXR.

F randomly means faired or four.

CB as used by Honda apparenty stood for City Bike (so those with a CBR600RR are just riding a tarty commuter bike Wink

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All the best

Keith
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Robby · Dirty Old Man Joined: 16 May 2002 Karma :

X means it has 4 valves per cylinder in suzukis AFAIK.

F generally denotes gentler or unfaired version - NSR125F is unfaired, GSXF600 is softer than a GSXR600.

R for race, we all know that. Doesn't make it a race bike by any stretch of the imagination, generally just means its faired - NSR125R for instance.

Also letters are often put on the end to designate year- VX800-L would be a 1991 I think, CBR600s have letters on the end and then numbers when they ran out of alphabet.

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Kickstart · The Oracle Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :