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#1
07-07-2003, 03:28 PM
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first bike 2002 cbr600 f4i
ok my car is about sold and i've been planning on buying a bike for a long time. i was at a stop light in my car and a bike pulled up next to me and stared at my car so i rolled down the window and told him how i liked his bike and was looking for one and he said he would sell his so i followed him into a parking lot and checked out his bike. its in perfect condition never been layed down and he said he'd sell it to me for 5,000 bucks with a matching helmet. i've been looking on ebay and other places to try to find an idea of how much they usually go for and about everyone i've looked at has gone for way more than 5 grand. i was planning on buying a 97 or so cbr but this seems like it was ment to be especailly with that price. this is my first bike however so i guess what im asking is what do you all think of the bike, some things to be careful of when riding, and if anyone knows of a good sounding slip-on to put on it because i love the sound of bikes and want mine to sound good. im not after speed because the bike has enough stock i just want it to sound better. im not after speach's about how i shouldn't buy it for my first bike i know the dangers very well and have already purchased leathers helmet gloves the works. i respect the power of bikes and the dangers and im not tryin to satisfy my ego i just want a good looking dependable nice sports bike and i think that this is the right one.
thanx for the help
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07-07-2003, 06:52 PM
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Good choice for a bike,not my first choice.But hey,i'm a yamaha man.Anyway back to your question,sounds too good to be true.How is mileage,chain & sprockets?Does the bike go into every gear?Ask if you can take it to a mechanic you know to check it out.And finally why would you want to make a bike louder?You can have a lot of fun on a quieter bike!
But thats just my opinion!
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07-07-2003, 08:39 PM
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I'd have a mechanic fully look the bike over. If the bike is in great shape, you already saved yourself several hundred, so what's $100 to make sure it's in perfect or at the very least nice working order???
Learning to ride on an F4i is doable. I have a friend who took the MSF basic skills course and bought the F4i as his first bike, and he's done quite well for himself. He started with a lot of self-control, though. TAKE THE COURSE and then apply the skills to the CBR as you get them. It's more than worth it. Plastics are expensive, so learn well the first time. As for cans... I'd honestly go without it for a while. You'll have to get the bike rejetted, and that's more money on top of what you'd spend on a can in the first place. When you do finally get to the point of buying a slipon... Unless you like your eardrums bleeding, do NOT get the D&D. The riders in my crew wear earplugs when someone with a D&D comes out. No joke.
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07-07-2003, 10:15 PM
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im sure the bike is in perfect condition the guy just wants to get rid of it and he got it for a real good deal so thats why he's sellin it cheap not because somethin is wrong... i thought that if you just got a slip on and not full exhaust you didn't have to have your bike rejetted. if anyones got some links to some places to buy stuff for bikes post em cause they'd be useful.
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07-07-2003, 10:19 PM
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any thoughts about AKRAPOVIC exhaust
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07-10-2003, 04:54 PM
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07-13-2003, 12:52 PM
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what about like a 98-2001 ninja zx-6r? is that to much for a first bike i like the looks of them and all i just dont know if there as forgiving as the cbr.
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07-13-2003, 06:08 PM
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Your first bike should NEVER be a sportsbike, please go read some of the other topics in this forum of other people inquiring about first bikes to get.
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......or if your a loser who drives a Civic with a type R sticker, racing stripes, blasting really bad rap music through your suburban area with your pretentious "I’m 21 but I’m still in high school girlfriend" while driving with your hand up on the top of the steering wheel exposing your underdeveloped pasty white vitamin deficient arm and wearing your backwards BS upside down visor hat while feeling the tacky as a "Florida vacation" single diamond earring in your ear, If you are this person...with any luck the sun in its precise celestial positioning as you putter on by...will reflect its scorching rays into your earring, bouncing intensely in your rearview, and finally making contact with your eyes through the thin cheap lense of $5 gas station Oakley rip off glasses.. then burning your retnal cones into smoldering melting gobs of ocular material as you are blinded by the purest form of energy in our known universe, and as you scream no one can help or hear you because they don’t know what’s going on since the weed whacker sound of your shitty tiny little muffler which makes the Civic sound like a 747 rages on underneath making everyone turn at disgust and comment to thier husbands or wives how much of a dickweed you are by attaching that automotive abnormality to your stock economical daily driver engineered by Japanese Automotive specialists to fit the needs for entry level business workers in their early 30's, however your pathetic looking $11,000 car which you want to look like a friggin spaceship with redundant ground effects is now out of control since you are blinded, and as your car plunges off the side of a cliff while you scream in the purest form of terror while knowing you have lived a horrid excuse for a life, by doing the bare minimum in every facet of existence, while getting fired from one pathetic job to another, the majority of your time spent slacking smoking dope, getting kicked out of school, polishing your "game" on sweet innocent underage girls you eventually 'de flower' through exhaustive yet succesful attempts to get the date rapist drugs you have stashed in the glove compartment, into your poor victims drinks while offering them to take the "Pepsi Challenge" while making your mother hate you, and your poor father who wishes he had a daughter instead of your pathetic ass, since a girl would be more of a man than you ever were, like the occasion when you were hit in the arm by a wild pitch in little league, then you cried like a fat kid who dropped his ice cream cone, I'm already envisioning you impacting the rocks below, in a spectacular fireball ignited from the residue hairspray from your girlfriend plastered in the fabric passenger seat, blinded by your earring, deafened by the loud "Bling Blingin", and I will smile and roll around on the ground in orgasmic delight while you are consumed by flames whose intense heat and fury will liquefy your bone marrow that I will use to make jelly beans out of and eat them happily at your funeral as midgets dressed like Alex 6005321 from "A Clockwork Orange" dance around your coffin to loud industrial style techno music and strobe lights, and I will sleep soundly at night knowing another successful conquest of Darwinism has been attained.
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07-13-2003, 06:28 PM
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i appreciate ur concern but did u read my first post
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07-13-2003, 08:30 PM
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I just reread your first post. Things to be careful of, well: power application, cornering speed (and if you happen to find that your hot into a corner lean more,) clutch application, brake application, slanty curbs, and cage drivers. Thats some of them, basically everything that has to do with riding. When your learning to make the bike move don't be afraid to stall it, after all that's much better than looping it.
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07-14-2003, 12:20 AM
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I did read your first post, and my stance is still the same. Nobody should ever start on a sportbike, I wish the US would adopt other countries policies when it comes to motorcycles and not allow people to start out on bikes over 500cc. Even if it is a f4i, which is commonly associated as a more tame sportbike, it still has all the power of the other ones. If the bike has the ability to flip you, without forcively making it, it is not a good starterbike. <thats a period
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......or if your a loser who drives a Civic with a type R sticker, racing stripes, blasting really bad rap music through your suburban area with your pretentious "I’m 21 but I’m still in high school girlfriend" while driving with your hand up on the top of the steering wheel exposing your underdeveloped pasty white vitamin deficient arm and wearing your backwards BS upside down visor hat while feeling the tacky as a "Florida vacation" single diamond earring in your ear, If you are this person...with any luck the sun in its precise celestial positioning as you putter on by...will reflect its scorching rays into your earring, bouncing intensely in your rearview, and finally making contact with your eyes through the thin cheap lense of $5 gas station Oakley rip off glasses.. then burning your retnal cones into smoldering melting gobs of ocular material as you are blinded by the purest form of energy in our known universe, and as you scream no one can help or hear you because they don’t know what’s going on since the weed whacker sound of your shitty tiny little muffler which makes the Civic sound like a 747 rages on underneath making everyone turn at disgust and comment to thier husbands or wives how much of a dickweed you are by attaching that automotive abnormality to your stock economical daily driver engineered by Japanese Automotive specialists to fit the needs for entry level business workers in their early 30's, however your pathetic looking $11,000 car which you want to look like a friggin spaceship with redundant ground effects is now out of control since you are blinded, and as your car plunges off the side of a cliff while you scream in the purest form of terror while knowing you have lived a horrid excuse for a life, by doing the bare minimum in every facet of existence, while getting fired from one pathetic job to another, the majority of your time spent slacking smoking dope, getting kicked out of school, polishing your "game" on sweet innocent underage girls you eventually 'de flower' through exhaustive yet succesful attempts to get the date rapist drugs you have stashed in the glove compartment, into your poor victims drinks while offering them to take the "Pepsi Challenge" while making your mother hate you, and your poor father who wishes he had a daughter instead of your pathetic ass, since a girl would be more of a man than you ever were, like the occasion when you were hit in the arm by a wild pitch in little league, then you cried like a fat kid who dropped his ice cream cone, I'm already envisioning you impacting the rocks below, in a spectacular fireball ignited from the residue hairspray from your girlfriend plastered in the fabric passenger seat, blinded by your earring, deafened by the loud "Bling Blingin", and I will smile and roll around on the ground in orgasmic delight while you are consumed by flames whose intense heat and fury will liquefy your bone marrow that I will use to make jelly beans out of and eat them happily at your funeral as midgets dressed like Alex 6005321 from "A Clockwork Orange" dance around your coffin to loud industrial style techno music and strobe lights, and I will sleep soundly at night knowing another successful conquest of Darwinism has been attained.
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07-16-2003, 07:23 AM
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I dissagree r1. At the beginning of this year I purchased my first motorcycle. A 2002 Honda cbr F4i. I had no previous experience on a motorcycle. Due to the break in period, i never tached the bike over 10,000 or ran it full throttle for the first 600 miles. iT90accord, I suggest the same "break in" period for youself. give yourself time to learn the basics of riding, and being VERY aware of your surroundings (ie. other drivers who could care less about a motorcyclist).
The f4i is a great first bike as long as you are not a complete idiot or lack basic self control. I suggest AKRAPOVIC exhaust for best sound\quality if you can afford it. Otherwise take a look at MIG, yoshimura, or m4. Scorpion makes a well priced can too. Also, I would suggest buying a steering damper(first) for your f4i. Changed my bike completely. I went with a Scotts damper and i suggest it to everyone. There is much more stability now. All in all, a sport bike can be a good first bike if you can control yourself. Any motorcycle, and especially sport bikes, can kill you fast. Keep your eyes open, and have fun. I know I am!
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07-16-2003, 11:53 AM
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It's a nice idea that every sportbike rider is going to be tame and give themselves a chance to learn their bike and what it and they can and cannot do, but it's about as likely as me growing a penis from my forehead. It won't happen.
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07-16-2003, 01:49 PM
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I have absolutely no urge to go really fast or start doin all kinds of stupid shit. I just want to have a nice bike to ride some people do have self control its not that uncommon because when you think about how you'll probably kill yourself if you dont have self control, it kinda makes u have self control and i guess if you think your invicible then you probably will kill yourself but either way i just wanna know about bikes not how no 20 year old has self control......
What about a 2001 yamaha YZF-600R? any thoughts about that bike?
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07-16-2003, 02:42 PM
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saturntangerine, notice the condition, "if" in "if you can control yourself."
Everything hinges on that. Moving on. iT90accord, From the studying that I did, I would have to say that the YZF-600R is a good choice also. From my limited knowledge, I think of things like this: F4i-- Good alround bike not geared as much toward all out performance as competetors. Comfortable ergonomics(in comparison to littler bikes). will last a fairly long time and it is smooth. My personal choice(the price was also right) GSX-R 600-- Fast. Plain and simple. Feels like it's gonna shake apart under full throttle, but fast. For those who want to be the .... well, fastest. Keep it for 2 years then sell it, otherwise you'll be fixing stuff regularly. YZF-600-- Good all around. Great brakes, steering can be a little nervous if pushed, but goes where you point it. Another good alround bike that's comfortable(relative) ZX6-R-- i know the lest about this one. it's not top dog in any one arena, but all in all it's a good bike. chassis is well sorted out. but bike could use a little more in each department Again, I am no test drive editor, but this is what I feel like I got from the 100 too many reviews I read. Do your own research, and you may find that one bike just keeps popping into your mind.
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