GSXR750...

[joebloggs]

I regularly have sports bike riders sneer at my FJ1200..... Yeah? Lardy Old Dinosaur? Wallowy tourer? LOL Guess again suckers?

But seriously I have shamed many a sports bike whilst riding an FZS600. The FZS600 is a superb handling bike and unless you are on a straight road bike sports bikes don't have that much of an advantage so long as it has a decent rider on board.

My point was that if a rider has the skill to use most of the power, brakes etc of a sports bike the 600's going to be left for dead but one thing you would miss is thrashing the bike through the gears trying to get the last bit of power and speed out of it, larger capacity bikes are so quick you find yourself the wrong side of 100 within seconds and sure you can keep on the gas but you can't ride around at those sort of speeds all day without risking either your licence of your neck

This probably sounds dumb, but if your looking for the sports bike experiance might be worth considering one of the 400's, ZXR, FZR or one of the Suzuki's, all brilliant little sports bikes that handle, you can thrash them all day and you really have to work to get the best out of them. Bit gutless two up but thats not what they are for.