necrotimus
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Yahmaha is catering to a certain type of rider with this bike IMO. The type of rider who wants his first bike to be able to kill him but be fully faired when it does so.
Full cowl is kinda nice, but from the front it looks a little GSXR-ish. Plus the new model has a narrower rear tire, and a smaller tank. At least it $200 cheaper than the 09 FZ-6. On a 1-5 scale, I'll give it a 'meh.'
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It has a 160 rear tyre, and makes peak power @10,000 RPM, hmm.
it will be interesting to see what kind of power it puts out.
57.0 kW (78 PS) @ 10,000 rpm... That would be 78bhp... I inferred from Grommit's post. This is about 20 less than a standard FZ6.
Ok here in the UK it is not called an FZ6R it is a XJ6 Diversion, but with a half faring. I need to lie down.
2009 Yamaha XJ6 Diversion / ABS
57.0 kW (78 PS) @ 10,000 rpm
yeah, i saw that after, it got posted as i was writing my post, i wonder if there is a way to unleash the power down the road? Yamaha makes so many 600cc motors that it doesn't make sense to make one that makes 20hp less than anything else out there.
I don't get it. Why not just by the R6? What does the FZ6R offer that that the R6 dosen't?