if youve got copper shavings youve spun a bearing. i had the same thing happen on my 01 1000. All you can do is buy another motor, rebuild that one, or sell the bike if it isn't too noticeable to a squid.

 

havent heard one person say to get a kawasuki

kawasuki has good motors right?

 

Thats it right there, never let it get that bad but thats exactly where the cracks start in the neck, always on that side too...

 

yeah great idea that way when he finds out you sold him a lemon he will either kill your dog or take you to small claims court

 

or kick ur door in

 

I have an 06 gsxr 600, I dont do the slow stuff but plan on learning. I do however do mile long highway wheelies, does anyone know if these bikes starve for oil when in the wheelie postion for awhile?

 

I hav a 05 gixxer 750 with 16000 miles and have no engine problems. it has been filpped end over end twice and dropped hard too many times to count, still no problems. I love it.

 

dont get me started, you know where i stand, how many times did i ride beside you during long *** standups before the pickup tube, so the damage was already done before the tune, my bike has over 30000 miles on it and i still havent done the valves or anything, the only thing that has went wrong was one of the fork seals blew, and you know how i am on my bike, but i stay on top of my maintance, so dont be hating on the bike, i have seen hondas blow up with less miles, depends on how you treat your bike, they are high reving motors, you cant treat them like they are a lawnmower.

 

I am a diehard Kawi dude. I love my F4i ,But I am definatly getting another 636. I miss the **** out of My 04'

 

+1 regular maintance can go a long way.

 

loved alll my gixxers!
(had pickup on everyone)

 

and I dont have a pickup tube, just over fill it a quart.

 

Was looking at the fiche for your bike, by the looks of it it will have starvation problems as well but the design and placement of the pickup seems as if it wont be as bad as the younger years. I have a 2000 they dont even make a pickup for it I am trying to design one now but that aside it gets ridden on one wheel the entire time and its heart still beats hard at 20000 miles

 

getting 12 k on a stunt peice is serious business for 1 they were meant to be ridden on 2 wheels not 1 and second it doesnt really matter good motor bad motor thats all bull how many times do we all take our bike out start em up do a good rollin burn out to heat the tires then procede to beat on them over heat them smash bash and crash them tearing **** up is all part of the game and it has to be written off every bike has problems just like cars

 

The harder you ride the less time you'll have your bike. (without problems)

 

+1 u cant possibly expect them to last long in the stunt business, just mek an effort in maintanence as if it actually will

 

01' 1000 here.... +27k on the clock, oil change every 25hundo. Valvetrain getting noisey.... I'm sure there are bikes for stunting better than others, and bikes made on Wednesdays and Friday. Only complaint was the subframe mounts broke from the first gen FI cage. Custom cage now..but I'm going to soon jump on the F4i bandwagon.

 

04 gix 600, no problems as of yet, thing is a champ, 19,000 miles just checked the valves for the first time, they are dead nuts on

I don't even have an oil pick up

 

EVERYTHING is related to how you care for it. you could change your oil after every ride, but be on the limiter constantly, overheat it, pretty much everything common in stunting, and you'd still not have a long living bike.

its stunting, not driving like grandma to the store for some milk. if you really expect any bike, regardless of make model or anything else to last, you have to keep it on two wheels, change the oil regularly and not be bouncing off the rev limiter constantly.

dont hate on the brand. Suzuki is just as good as Honda, Kawi, or Yamaha. but I prefer the Hondas after my 87 ZX1000A2 threw the #2 rod out of the engine case.

 

my friends motor seized up on his new gsxr 600 in less miles than that.

i dunno what the exact problem was but hes def pissed. brand new bike down the *******