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Dramatic_Hammer
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*Matt*
Please post a picture of the CBR600F!
I'm not sure, it just wasn't me and didn't feel it was confidence inspiring as a very new beginner 100+BHP is quite a lot, the delivery is much more choppy and the gearbox not as forgiving as than the inline 4 of a Honda (admittedly there's a huge reduction in bhp between the 2), found the suspension super soft (I'm 90kgs) so the handling wasn't as sharp as I thought it would be - admittedly it was a 2012 version with 49k on the clock. I found the seat height quite low (i'm 6ft 1) and being a naked its windy AF. The nail in the coffin was hot restarts, it just wouldn't start when above 4/5 bars hot. Made petrol stops a day out.
Funnily both my biker mates said get a CBR600F (one has a VFR800 the other a CBR600F)- something with fairings and narrow-ish for filtering, I didn't listen and wish I had...