In this episode of ‘Top Ten Bikes’, we’ll be looking at the top 10 sports middle weights, as chosen by our expert Men & Motors panel. Which one will get the much coveted number 1 spot?
Originally aired on Men and Motors TV channel on 22/01/2003
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what was the first bike shown in the opening credits
How does a ZX6R get the number 1 spot? And how the fucking hell can it be ranked above the R6? In fact how does the R6 only get number 4? It's head and shoulders above the rest.
Bullshit, my Thundercat goes 180miles with 19 litres full tank with no problem
I wanted a ZZR6 when they first came out. I did eventually get one many years later, and the one I got had been absolutely hammered, used and abused.
The thing is, that I also treated it like a piece of dirt and it never EVER let me down.
Actually, I will be honest, it did fail, but the cause was the vaccuum pipe got heated and split, thus causing the fuel to fail to get to the carb.
I cured this by snipping the pipe and it cured it for another year or so… It wwent again and I instantly knew hwo to cure it, but this time the pipe could not fully reach as Isnipped a bit too much off… I replaced it with a brand new pipe and it never let me down again.
One time, I even stripped the whole bike down, to rebuild it with all clean bits etc, and the shed blew down in the wind.. The entire bike was them duped in the garden for about 8 months, including the enginer bewing left without the top end on.
Then, one day, I decided to see if it could be fixed up rather than dumped and I got the engine running and so I put it all together again, and it ran withotu issues for another year or two and I sold it off.
Only two months ago, I was looking at getting another… It was selling in a local bike shop, I made the decision to get it, but it had been sold. The wife also said that she missed the ZZR cos it was a comfy enough bike to go a distance and yet loney enough to make up grin like a pair of psychos.
Aaaand the Fazer 600.
The bike I went for when I could not get to like the GSX6 that I also bought.
The CB400 is by far, the most fun bike I currently own, but I absolutely love the Fazer 600.
Im glad they didnt knock it.
Love my Honda F4. Still got the power to hold its own.
Maybe it's me? But since when has bike in 9th spot been a sports bike,i loathe this crap,for years i bought bike mags,and they did the same crap,WHY? I hate bullshit. BTW all the other middleweights are great 'sportsbikes',and 2 kwaks in the mix,love it,i had a GPz600r and a ZX-6R J1 which surprised me of it's ability after riding bigger bikes for many years,love ZUKIS
A cbr 600f at number 2? Ffs…. The gixxer is way way better than the 600f. The gsxr600 would be number 2 on my list but i'd still keep the zx6 at number 1. Im just not to keen on the colour green. I'd also have the r6 at number 3.
10. Suzuki ZZR 600
9. Cagiva Raptor 600
8. Triumph TT 600
7. Yamaha YZF 600
6. Ducati 748
5. Yamaha FZS Fazer 600
4. Yamaha R6
3. Suzuki GSXR600
2. Honda CBR 600
1. Kawasaki ZX6R Ninja
S1000rr all the way, f*ck these bicycles!