If this is your first bike, go with the EX500. If that gets too slow for
you, then you can trade up, maybe to a 2001 Honda CBR600F4i if you have a
need for speed. The F4i will get you 0-60 in 2.89s, 1/4-mile in 10.59 @
128mph, and a top speed around 155mph - not bad for a 0.6L engine. ;-)
Current prices are around $8200USD.
Oh yeah, it goes 60-0mph in 111 feet. I remember a race car driver saying
the biggest difference between a race car and a street car is that the race
car has good brakes....
-- -- "Chuong Nguyen" <dester223@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:F69LznHBTyKmqdU2EGe00003bf6@hotmail.com... > Well, here's an off topic question for you guys. I'm wanting to buy a > motorcycle (crotch rocket) speed bike. whatever you might want to call it. > > I was looking at a kawasaki ninja 500 today and the style was okay to me, > but my friends who have bikes tell me I'm gonna get dusted by everything on > the road. I want to start out with something nice becaues I'm gonna keep it > for a long time. > > anyone have any recommendations to what bike is more suited for me? I'm not > a big hefty person... and I don't want anything over a 650 CC bike. it > should look sporty with all the plastics. my current thoughts are the > GSX-R 600 > cbr600 f4 > katana 600 > SV650 > or that dinky 500 EX ninja. > > the dinky ninja is the cheapest of the bunch and I can get one for 4400 > bucks used with 1800 miles on it. The guy works at the bike shop and > returned it for a bigger bike, and he's getting rid of it. > > What my question is... "am I going to be happy with the performance of the > 500, or should I spend a little more now and get a 600?" I don't want to > have the ABSOLUTE fastest thing on the road, just somewhere in the "mild to > faster" range of bikes. please advise. > -Chuong > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com >
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