05-03-12, 11:50 AM
I had an ER6-F a couple of years ago, lovely bike.
The handlebars do indeed push your hands into a strange angle but I found that if you turn the bars down towards the rider as far as the lock to tank allows they suddenly become a lot more comfy, in fact I have even put ER6 bars on my Fazer thou and I never get aches in my hands.
I never really found the seat that uncomfy, I rode my ER6 to Lagos Portugal and managed 640 miles in one day without too many aches. However, the standard shock was desperately oversprung and underdamped which is a recipe for a sore butt so I had fitted a Bitubo shock with a lower rated spring and it much improved the ride. I put Ohlins springs in the front because again the standard ones wern't up to it.
Second hand values on the ER6 are pretty poor for some reason, I paid £3950 for mine new in 2007 and sold it with 24,000 miles up for just £2,400 in 2009.
All in all it's a great bike albeit with a few tweaks needed to bring it up to scratch. I was saddened to see mine go, but it being a Kawasaki and being used all year round it had started to rot and the swingarm corroded so badly it had to be replaced, so I felt it was time to move on.
The handlebars do indeed push your hands into a strange angle but I found that if you turn the bars down towards the rider as far as the lock to tank allows they suddenly become a lot more comfy, in fact I have even put ER6 bars on my Fazer thou and I never get aches in my hands.
I never really found the seat that uncomfy, I rode my ER6 to Lagos Portugal and managed 640 miles in one day without too many aches. However, the standard shock was desperately oversprung and underdamped which is a recipe for a sore butt so I had fitted a Bitubo shock with a lower rated spring and it much improved the ride. I put Ohlins springs in the front because again the standard ones wern't up to it.
Second hand values on the ER6 are pretty poor for some reason, I paid £3950 for mine new in 2007 and sold it with 24,000 miles up for just £2,400 in 2009.
All in all it's a great bike albeit with a few tweaks needed to bring it up to scratch. I was saddened to see mine go, but it being a Kawasaki and being used all year round it had started to rot and the swingarm corroded so badly it had to be replaced, so I felt it was time to move on.