Advice on a sports il4 600

[deej]

disagree on the fully comp idea,if you dont need to pay it dont.ive gone 3pft and can afford 2 extra trackdays with the saving. also with ebay and forums around you should be able to fix your bike cheaper than a ridiculous excess of £400+, if its more than that it'll get lost or more likely get sold/used as a track bike.

ricky,stop worrying about your next bike and get out and enjoy the sv whilst you can and learn as much as you can before stepping upto a screamer

[Mike Daytona600]

Not if the frame is so bent that the tank poped off

[Ricky_t]

dont know about you guys but i might ride enthusiastically but never write about my bike in that way

learn to ride what you got first,thats a cracking learner bike you got there and a well ridden sv will pee all over a poorly ridden cbr6

Sorry freudian slip!

[Ricky_t]

As i don't use bikes for commuting they are written enthusiastically and the sv is not a fun bike to ride in the high revs! It feels somewhat riding a diesel where the torque drops quite suddenly as you rev higher and you need to change up gear whilst you have a few 1000 rpm spare!

If your planning on restricting your new purchase then you will almost certainly find that it performs in a similar fashion to the SV. The power will peter out at around 8,000 rpm and you will find yourself 'short-shifting'. I'm not saying that you shouldent go out and buy a new bike but I would recomend riding a restricted il4 before going out and spending lots of money.

The only other thing I would be a bit nervous of is when your restriction is up. Going from a resctricted SV to an unrestricted one is not that big a deal. You would be used to using low-down torque. Whereas if you were to ride an IL4 you might get yourself into the habbit of whipping back the accelarator and having to keep it pinned to get anything out the the throtttled engine. Going from that to a de-restriced 100 odd bhp bike that would loop without too much trouble would worry me.

As long as you know all of this then I doubt you have much to worry about.

Go and buy a gixxer!!

My restriction ends next year, my next bike will NOT be restricted. Thanks for the advice but i am pretty much convinced that the best thing for me to do is wait an extra year before getting my next bike. That way i will get more experience and you are probably right - my riding technique is the same as what i was taught for my bike test!

Fully comp seems a good point too, I will bear that in mind. It will be cheaper waiting an extra year too!

[Blimey]

Very mature reply. Well done mate.

Even after 15 years of riding i'm still learning mate. But then again if you saw how bad i rode you would understand.

I still stabalizers really

[deej]

blimey still "needs" stabilizers

mike if the frames that bent it would end up lost wouldnt it