Sports Bikes Suitable For Women

[Jayy]

My sister just turned 21 a few weeks ago and has had a YZFR125 for the past 4 months or so.

Now she's old enough to do her DAS, which I think she's doing one of them intensive 2 days courses this month. She's looking for a sports bike to buy.

Her problem is she's quite short, she had a lowering kit fitted to her bike and she can touch the ground with her toes on the bike but not flat footed. She's still getting used to riding bikes to be fair and she's falled off the 125 twice whilst trying to turn around and not being able to touch the floor properly. Her riding is alright, just a bit shakey on low speed control.

My concearn is, she's been looking at a CBR600RR and seems quite set on it or an R6. Anybody fitted lowering kit to one of these before? What kind of adjustment can you get out of them?

I've also told her I think it would be a good idea to fit a restriction kit to either of these bikes, even if she has a full lisence just while she gets used to the extra power. She's never had bikes or even ridden them until she got her 125 four months ago.

Can anyone even suggest some better bikes to go for that are still sports bikes and a newer design say 03/04/05 models? She doesn't like the older design sports bikes which is why she's looking at them two but she's deffo over looking her experience and looking more at the pose factor which is worrying.

[Groove]

I think we would probably need pics of your 21 year old sister before we could possibly comment.

Also, how short is she? That would help a lot.
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[chris-red]

What is she doing out of the kitchen.



Also Pics or GTFO.
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[Matt06]

Might just be spouting shit, but how confident about the weight of the bike is she? The reason I ask is she might not be leaning it over much when stopped so she cant be flat footed.

When I first sat on my R6 I was on tippy toes, but wasnt holding the weight of the bike much.

How tall is she? How about an SV650?
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[MonkeyKnuckle]

CBR600RRs are fairly small. I've had a girl about 5"4 sit on mine and it was ok-ish.

It's probably too small for me but I'm 6"2.
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[MarJay]

CBR400RR is probably the lowest non cruiser bike around...
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[bacon]

women usually have the advantage of usually being quite leggy, i know girls who are shorter than me with longer legs, so find out her inside leg length for a start

im 5ft 6 with a 29" inside leg measurement, I know... anyway, iv had a cbr600f sport (01), zx6r (03) and now a zx7r. All the bikes so far have been tip toe jobs, the zx7r being the best as the seat is low, but the fairings are fairly wide around the seat, but i can get a foot flat down by simply moving over slightly, none of these bikes have posed a problem to me. Only slight difficult moments can be when you need to turn the bike around in a small area, as pushing backwards up a hill for example with one foot is a little tricky

i wouldnt suggest a zx7r to her though, as they weigh 203kg dry...not saying girls are weak, well actually yes i am, small girls are generally quite weak in comparison to men.

If she can splash a little extra cash, the K6/K7 gsxrs are nice and low, i can get the balls of my feet down, and they are superb bikes, i test rode one last summer, i want one when i finish uni and i have money again.

The later R6's atm are very tall, i cant get even tip toes of each foot down at the same time on the current one

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[Rob W]

Sounds to me mate like she'd be best off getting some experience and confidence on her 125 before making a step up to a 600. For someone with 4 months experience to jump onto a bike with probably 80-90bhp more is gonna be a huge step.
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[Ariel Badger]

Not a sports bike but Bussas are dead low. I am a dwarf and I can flat foot on one.
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