[gsi_ire]

Hello Folks,

Sold my restricted 03 CBR600RR last Autumn.

Seriously considering returning to biking and I am looking at a 2001 K1 GSXR 600. €2100 with some minor fairing cracks, but cosmetic only.
2 new tyres with a good chain and sprocket.

How is the K1 compared to the CBR?

Opinions on the price?

[Darkcloud]

Hmmmm...never had the RR only the F and never had a Gixxer but 2100 seems a bit rich for a K1..especially one with some 'cosmetics'..

[gsi_ire]

Darkcloud, on 23 May 2011 - 10:43 PM, said:

Hmmmm...never had the RR only the F and never had a Gixxer but 2100 seems a bit rich for a K1..especially one with some 'cosmetics'..

Well I have seen a number of very good pictures of the bike that were taken recently, its very clean.
He needs to get me some up close pictures of the "damage", but he seems to be very genuine and dont expect it to be significant.

Looking at donedeal last night I was hard pressed to find many K1 600's for sale so I dont have much for comparison.

What I would really like to know how the bike rides compared to the CBR tbh.

There are so few 600 sports bikes available within my expected budget! There seems to be more R1's available for my money than anything else, but I can't consider getting on anything so big, I would end up dead.

This post has been edited by gsi_ire: 24 May 2011 - 11:02 AM

[gsi_ire]

Correction on above, its scratched, not cracked.

This post has been edited by gsi_ire: 24 May 2011 - 11:20 AM

[Para]

Hi,

I believe it's my bike which we are talking about. Some pictures of the bike below.



I will send you some pics of the scratched side later tonight, I need to do the trip to the garage. Engine runs perfectly, clutch, gearbox is all good, battery has been bough new few months ago, there is Bridgestone tyre brand new at the rear (3 weeks old) and I will replace front tyre before selling, you have new brake pads front and rear (change at the same time as the rear tyre);

There is nothing wrong mechanically with the bike, the only bad point is the scratched left side which happened to the previous owner, he was trying to avoid collision with the car and had to drop the bike on the left, bike slided on the road. I believe after changing the left side of the plastic covers there wouldn't be anything else to point out.

I wasn't sure for how much to sell this bike, I'm not a bike dealer I compare prices to what is on donedeal and I dropped it because of the scratched side. I think I could easily advertise for 2500 if bike wouldn't be scratched.

As for the feeling of GSXR in comparison to 600RR, I don't think you should even ask that question as you had restricted 600 My GSX-R will feel much stronger and revy. Why don't you pop over for a test drive when you are ready ?

Cheers,
Mike

This post has been edited by Para: 24 May 2011 - 01:44 PM