I went and rode this kids bike yesterday and was trying wheelies on it. I was timid so I wasn't about to just dump the clutch on an 06' Gixxer but I wasn't being very nice to it either. The back tire finally warmed up after spinning it a couple of times, but as I went to dump the clutch it seriously felt as if either (A) the clutch was slipping or (B) there is ZERO power around 4k? I don't know... maybe I was being a sally considering I didn't want to dump this kids bike (and I HATE riding other peoples ****) but it seriously felt like it has ZERO *****!

Anyone else feel that with the new Gixxers?

 

Every new gixxer I've rode has been awesome for wheelies

 

I don't know what it was, but I didn't like the feel at all. And I've never felt anything like that before, I thought something was mechanically wrong with it so I just brought it back to the kid and got off of it.

 

thats how most bikes are, you're just used to f4i's that wheelie themselves

 

I'm used to -1/+10 on my F4i, but even when I rode my cousins stock F4i it didn't take much at all to get it up in 1st with a little slip of the clutch.

 

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

 

Then my F4i must be broken...

 

your f4i prob is geared and the gixxey was bone stock.......it also wasn't yours and I am the same way......you just can't kill it like you should or you would end up like Klem on your back with some other dudes bike skidding down the street.

 

it is - sell it to me cheap

 

I must not be used to it b/c honesly it felt like his clutch was fried. It was so unresponsive I could have swore something was broke. But, I was also being a sally and not really dumping it from 8k.

 

Just the fact that it was someone elses and you weren't used to it.. the other stocker was an f4i and u ride an f4i...

I've rode them they clutch real easy from a dead with stock gears..
Seems to have more power than my 04.. little twitchy though!

 

^ look at the source.... no offense kelm but this was prolly when you were still powering up your 250

 

i think ur right cause my friend has an 06 and had a hard time clutchin it up in 2nd gear. the ended up just goin -1/+1 and then could do it alot easier. not sayin that it cant be done stock, just sayin it aint really easy

 

NICE BIKE CRASH THAT ONE TOO.....................YOUR A TOOL GO HOME ALLREADY..........AND YES I WILL HAVE PICS FOR YOU U HOMO.........

 

shut the **** up mister "I got everything on lock"....



but on topic.... the new 06's (all of em), have nothing downlow, dispite what the dyno says.

the R6 is worst of all of em, you really have to rev the **** out of it to raise it from a stop.

 

Alright, well then I guess his clutch was fine and I was just being a sally and not droppin' the living **** out of the bike. Good thing I didn't b/c my luck it would snap up faster than my F4i and there goes his tail section.

 

Well heres the deal. All the new bikes are "no comprimise" track bikes. They have very tall gearing and most of the power is up top. This can be fixed with a gearing change, but it is how they come stock now.

Stunting is still possible (look at Kane on the new kawi's), but it just takes a different technique

 

you can wheelie just about any bike they all feel different than the one you ride every day

check out the 3/11/07 bike week ride pics when rick nasty posts them up.

heres a hint ............... sit down coaster



1100................... :YEAH