Goodbye R6 hello CBR600

[sjtscott]

Sold the old R6 today and bought my mates pristine 2003 CBR600F.
Back to the world of fuel injection after almost 2 years away. First bike ever with a centre stand too, looking forward to lazy ar*e chain loobing with the rear off the deck! Also nice to have a factory fit immobiliser too working off the key, never been a big fan of anything datatool related.

Best thing is I got a refund of £15 on my insurance premium for changing. Amazing considering the cbr is worth somewhat more than the R6 was, must be down to the insurance dropping one group.
Hats off to H&R, called em yesterday new cert sitting in my postbox this morning!

[momentofmadness]

Well? Are you fully aquainted with her yet?

Got an ancient CBR6 myself and despite my best efforts, she still won't die!

PS A pic would be nice too - even if only a sad git like me gets excited over a Honda

[sjtscott]

momentofmadness said:

Well? Are you fully aquainted with her yet?

Got an ancient CBR6 myself and despite my best efforts, she still won't die!

PS A pic would be nice too - even if only a sad git like me gets excited over a Honda

Glad to see someone replied, thanks! lol

Fully aquainted as of this morning! Totally different to ride to the R6 more relaxed riding position too which helps round town. It def more stable at very slow speed in heavy traffic, the injection makes it nice and smooth too. Its been mapped properly for the std exhaust which adds some 10-20miles to the tank range with normal riding (this is no joke!). Also means it takes off like a b*****d!
Only thing I'm not happy with are the brakes, I need to sort these. I like really sharp strong front brakes and its missing the response that the std R6 setup had. Looks like I'll junk the std rubber lines and maybe switch the pads to my tried and tested EBC HH to start with.

I'll see what I can do with a pic.

Edited by sjtscott on Monday 19th February 10:12

[momentofmadness]

HEL braided lines @ £39.99 :

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HEL-2-Line-Stai

Cool, sounds like you are getting on well with her!

[sjtscott]

momentofmadness said:

HEL braided lines @ £39.99 :

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HEL-2-Line-Stai

Cool, sounds like you are getting on well with her!

Nice one cheers, on both counts!

BTW which year/model CBR do you have?
I first looked at them in early 1997 (the old steel frame model) when I bought my first bike but went with the ZX6R as Kawasaki were offering them on 0% and I got fully comp insurance for £275 capped for the first year.
ZX6 was the demon 600 at that point too so you'll have to forgive me Taken me over ten years of riding to move to a honda, I've owned all the other Japanese makes and Aprilia too over that time.

[momentofmadness]

momentofmadness said:

Got an ancient CBR6 myself

Errrrm, well actually... *mumbles and look down at shoes* she's a 1990 F-L Jellymould shape (yep the first one LOL)

110 section front tyre and 130 section rear (!!) 60+ K miles and she still has a good turn of speed, can usually keep up with modern 600s unless their piloted by nutters!

I really could do with getting a newer one, but at the moment she does all I need and more. Luckily I quite enjoy a bit of spannering

Anyway where's this pic?

PS Have you had the calipers off to make sure the pistons are moving freely? Maybe pump them out a bit and attack with brake cleaner if you're feeling energetic!

[sjtscott]

momentofmadness said:

momentofmadness said:

Got an ancient CBR6 myself

Errrrm, well actually... *mumbles and look down at shoes* she's a 1990 F-L Jellymould shape (yep the first one LOL)

110 section front tyre and 130 section rear (!!) 60+ K miles and she still has a good turn of speed, can usually keep up with modern 600s unless their piloted by nutters!

I really could do with getting a newer one, but at the moment she does all I need and more. Luckily I quite enjoy a bit of spannering

Anyway where's this pic?

PS Have you had the calipers off to make sure the pistons are moving freely? Maybe pump them out a bit and attack with brake cleaner if you're feeling energetic!

Some of us are supposed to be working hence no pic yet

Nowt wrong with calipers, bike is spotlessly clean currently and has only covered 5k miles from new even though its a late 2003 model. The brakes have power if you squeeze hard but I like em really sharp initially to the point where others who are ham fisted would be off the bike. Also don't like leaver spongyness at all basically I want perfection or as close as possible. Brakes needed to stop you in a hurry in London thats all regularly.
If you'd owned a 1999 R6 you'd know exactly what I mean here best brakes by far on any bike I've owned/ridden with std setup no braided lines needed. Best rear brake response still my nicked GSXR600K3 with EBC HH pads simply awesomely sharp just how I like it.

Edited by sjtscott on Monday 19th February 17:36

[momentofmadness]

Sounds like a minter!

The pads could also be glazed if your mate was anything like me

Edit : I'm thinking about changing to sintered pads; do they really increase the wear rate on the discs, or is that just scaremongering?

Edited by momentofmadness on Monday 19th February 18:51

[sjtscott]

momentofmadness said:

Sounds like a minter!

The pads could also be glazed if your mate was anything like me

Edit : I'm thinking about changing to sintered pads; do they really increase the wear rate on the discs, or is that just scaremongering?

Edited by momentofmadness on Monday 19th February 18:51

Def not glazed pads! But I know what you mean.
I put most of it down to the standard honda pads, mate does too when I spoke to him about it again. They don't give the overall response like the EBC HH pads but work equally well wet and dry. EBC HH have a habit of going a bit dull in the wet which isn't a bad thing.
Overall sintered pads are night and day better performance than non. The disc wear thing is a load of rubbish. I've used sintered pads on all my bikes. I did 23k miles from new on my aprilia falco it had twin 320mm front discs with EBCs fitted only a tiny amount of noticable wear to be honest in that time. To put this in context the quickest I've ever used a set of EBC HH front pads was in 6k miles using the thing round london!!!

Edited by sjtscott on Tuesday 20th February 09:37