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2005 Supersport Shootout - Track Test (Motorcycle-usa.com)
Model(s) covered: 2005 Honda CBR 600 RR, 2005 Suzuki GSX-R 600, 2005 Yamaha YZF-R6, 2005 Kawasaki ZX-6R
Okay, we assume you're already up to speed after reading the street version of our Supersport test, so now you're ready to really get up to speed.
The four supersport machines assembled here have such great performance capabilities that it's only at their outer limits that one can hone in on how differently they rate.
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2005 Supersport Shootout - Street Test (Motorcycle-usa.com)
Model(s) covered: 2005 Honda CBR 600 RR, 2005 Suzuki GSX-R 600, 2005 Yamaha YZF-R6, 2005 Kawasaki ZX-6R
There was a time in the not-too-distant past when a 600cc sportbike could be seen as a credible entry-level motorcycle. Light in weight yet manageable in power, a Honda Hurricane or Ninja 600 was a non-intimidating mount on which to hone burgeoning rider skills.
Well, that certainly has changed. The current crop of middleweights has more in common with the Milky Way than with milquetoast.
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Model(s) covered: 2005 Yamaha YZF-R6
The pace of development in the middleweight sportbike class continues at a staggering rate. Although it's been just two years since Yamaha, Kawasaki and Honda introduced all-new 600s, all are significantly updated for 2005. Yamaha's R6 becomes the first out of the gate, ready to hit dealers mid-November.
On the surface, the changes to the 2005 model-a new fork, front brakes and revised engine tuning-don't seem highly significant, and we were unsure how much difference we would feel when MCUSA was invited to sample the revised screamer on an introductory street ride in Southern California last week.
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Model(s) covered: 2005 Yamaha YZF-R6
After spending what seemed like a whole year scaring myself silly on open class bikes it looks as though the 2005 season is going to be spent on 600's. Kawasaki has revamped the ZX6R's for 05' and both Honda and Yamaha have chosen to refresh their Supersport class bikes too. Yamaha are first to the proverbial plate, so round one was spent conquering the highways and byways of central California offering you the first taste of street life aboard the R6. Normally a street ride on sporting tackle like this would chap my royal British arse - but our proposed meeting place was none other than Hollywood's renowned totty capital, the Sky Bar.
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