Looking to purchase a track bike soon . Found an 09 r6 3100mi $5800, looking to trade my M109r in on it. really dont want to try to muscle my beloved 14 around a track . which would you recommend or should i go straight to a litre im 6'1" 210 pounds. thx all replies welcome. Mack

An r6 makes a good track bike. I ride a 6r on the track and enjoy the hell out of it.

There's an old saying "it's more fun to ride a slow bike fast, than to ride a fast bike slow". At most tracks a 600 has no problem hanging with liter bikes and if it's a really tight course staying in front of them.

Shitcan. Run year ass is down with any bike you'll purchase. Take the lowers off and hang off. Sit upright and drag the foot nipples down. You take corners slow or they take you out WOThe fuck is up I need to pepper my gear rage with why did I buy that thing. I should have doubled up for the same price is track a 14 year, shitcans on some slow ass bike you want top end?

No, I want pecker power not dick the fuck out day way! YEE YEE YEAR INN DAY WAY! Don't mind me. I piss inn year general direction yama HA you round-due-rounds!

Fastest I've ever flown through this corner and the bike was banging bumps so hard... WOT A HANDLER! WOT Grunt! Hunt you fuckers down is WATTile do is smooth around year ass is in the grass over the rail, in the weeds, hit the wall or sit on the gouch is ouch... did that poise soak up the work that day chasing Joey SloWee.

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Building one from the ground up (converting a street to a track bike)
would be way more expensive. Buy something already set up and ready to take
the beating of track riding.

A 1000 cc is more difficult to ride fast around a track than the smaller bikes,
they are heavier, change direction slower, chew up tires and a handful in the wet or
on colder/worn tires. Parts to replace after a crash are also more expensive.

SILVER14:

heathun and mass know whereof they speak. -bg

What does Mass know about track bikes???... LOL.
Masszx's Track Bike

Mass, glad to see you're still checkin' in on the forum.
I was beginning to think you'd sold the lightest zx14 on the planet.

* Last updated by: DogoZX on 11/26/2010 @ 11:29 AM *

+1 Good to hear from you Mass.

Buy a track bike @ $14,000 all setup for racing-used in AMA-never crashed.

Buy a used track bike from Mass - 7K with a tweaked front end that rides 'wallered' down the road. Crashed once!

Buy a good set of springs for the front and a shock for the rear; $1000 or less for the 14-tracker.

Buying from a squid thinking all those hot goodies are going to give some sort of return and I'd be selling most of them just to make the bike lighter than a 1000cc for 14K??? Do I look like I beat the drum slowly?

Parts to replace after a crash are also more expensive

I crashed my 10r a few years ago at Loudon and had GMD straighten the frame out.
Crashed it again a few months later and sold it "as is" to one of the guys on my local forums.

I bought my 08 gsxr 750 in the beginning of 2009 with only 1K on the odo in full street trim.
Converted it to a track only bike and wrecked it properly soon after that.
Straightened the frame at GMD and rebuilt it completely, rode on it this past season and wrecked it
again in Sept at NJMP. Now I have all the parts and need time to put them on and send the bike to be
measured at GMD again.

I average one major crash per season, few minor low slides in b/n also.
The parts for my 750 are dirt cheap, so are the gsxr 600 parts.
If I were crashing a zx10r or a R1 that often, I would probably be either broke or not riding.

Dogo, that 14 of mine will be cruising the Sunshine state sometime next week,
wouldn't sell her just yet.
I also have to get back to that build thread soon with all the updates.

Mass, thats what I like about my old 6r. Parts are cheap and the aftermarket is huge.

My reccomendation to anyone just getting into track days. Hit your local boards and pick up a used race bike, someone who races will upgrade every couple of years. You can usually pick one up thats already safety wired, has all the goodies including suspension upgrades and do it for 3K or less. The WERA racers around here usually move their bikes every couple of years for a real good price. I recently saw a TL1000 race ready for 3K and that included all the stock plastics to put it back on the street.

* Last updated by: heathun on 11/26/2010 @ 6:17 PM *

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TrackDough ... You know, the lucky 13 says a street bike with low mileage needing a payment and you bail out the ride is flog the cheaper, [high dependability]; you buying a used crankshaft with fatigue written all over it spelled how you have insurance waiting you feeding that hole in the head, hole in the ground, whole thing smells like cutting the onion the other way it cooks better, tastes better you cut the meat against the grain the BBQ taste different... So I'm told.