20-odd year old 600 sports bikes are still bloody quick!
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 7:54 am
Long story - short.
I had to do a 60 mile each way blast yesterday Tea Time (Northern English colloquialism for around 17:00/19:00) mostly on the M6 between junctions 29 and 19.
Circumstances dictated that the outward leg was completed on a 1995 CBR 600, whilst the return leg was on a GSA800.
The CBR rev's forever and really picks it's feet up above 6000rpm. It's got a pretty loud pipe on it and wails it's nuts off when it comes on cam, very childish.
I find it interesting riding different bikes back-to-back, you can only get an inkling of a sports 600's performance on a busy Bank Holiday, Late Afternoon on the M6. The 600 only comes alive above the legal speed limit.
The GSA800 on the other hand is making decent power at rpm's that would have the CBR slightly labouring.
Therefore the performance "gap" between the two bikes can be a bit blurry, after all there's only 15 bhp between them.
At the back end of my outward-leg on the CBR I got the opportunity of blitzing a new Audi S3 (that was being driven by a Tit,) up to a 100mph away from the traffic lights on a duel carriageway, very amusing.....
Fat old bloke on an "M" Reg. 600 bike, blasts away from 28 year old bearded advertising executive in 40K sports car, shocker!
Anyhow, I was talking about the relative performance's of two fairly similarly powered bikes.
Unless you've got two bikes side by side it's difficult to judge exactly the differences in out and out performance.
On the return leg I was on my GSA800, the performance is more accessible, it's making it's peak power around motorway speeds and never feels underpowered.
The M6 was being a bitch, Bank Holiday, road works and the inevitable standing traffic whilst a couple of cars are recovered after a shunt.
But after the standing traffic was duely filtered through I found myself on a pretty clear road and I settled down to a 90mph cruise.
I'm smashing past cars and making up time. I'm in lane three getting the job done.
Then I become aware of a sports bike tailing me, so because I'm a dick I wind up the GSA up 120mph and pull over to the middle lane, feck-me! That sports bike flies past me in a blur, but it's a familiar coloured and shaped blur, a 1990's Red and White CBR600! Just like the one I'd been riding an hour before.....go on son!
Bloke in hi-vis and overalls on his way home from work on 20-odd year old sports-nail, smashes Klim-clad adventure bike rider on 10K fashion statement, Shocker!
I had to do a 60 mile each way blast yesterday Tea Time (Northern English colloquialism for around 17:00/19:00) mostly on the M6 between junctions 29 and 19.
Circumstances dictated that the outward leg was completed on a 1995 CBR 600, whilst the return leg was on a GSA800.
The CBR rev's forever and really picks it's feet up above 6000rpm. It's got a pretty loud pipe on it and wails it's nuts off when it comes on cam, very childish.
I find it interesting riding different bikes back-to-back, you can only get an inkling of a sports 600's performance on a busy Bank Holiday, Late Afternoon on the M6. The 600 only comes alive above the legal speed limit.
The GSA800 on the other hand is making decent power at rpm's that would have the CBR slightly labouring.
Therefore the performance "gap" between the two bikes can be a bit blurry, after all there's only 15 bhp between them.
At the back end of my outward-leg on the CBR I got the opportunity of blitzing a new Audi S3 (that was being driven by a Tit,) up to a 100mph away from the traffic lights on a duel carriageway, very amusing.....
Fat old bloke on an "M" Reg. 600 bike, blasts away from 28 year old bearded advertising executive in 40K sports car, shocker!
Anyhow, I was talking about the relative performance's of two fairly similarly powered bikes.
Unless you've got two bikes side by side it's difficult to judge exactly the differences in out and out performance.
On the return leg I was on my GSA800, the performance is more accessible, it's making it's peak power around motorway speeds and never feels underpowered.
The M6 was being a bitch, Bank Holiday, road works and the inevitable standing traffic whilst a couple of cars are recovered after a shunt.
But after the standing traffic was duely filtered through I found myself on a pretty clear road and I settled down to a 90mph cruise.
I'm smashing past cars and making up time. I'm in lane three getting the job done.
Then I become aware of a sports bike tailing me, so because I'm a dick I wind up the GSA up 120mph and pull over to the middle lane, feck-me! That sports bike flies past me in a blur, but it's a familiar coloured and shaped blur, a 1990's Red and White CBR600! Just like the one I'd been riding an hour before.....go on son!
Bloke in hi-vis and overalls on his way home from work on 20-odd year old sports-nail, smashes Klim-clad adventure bike rider on 10K fashion statement, Shocker!
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