95 percent of those bikes gonna ride on the streets ..thats just scary

 

:lol :lol :lol I'm with them on this one!!! :riding :riding

http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2006/Feb/060214d1.htm

:beer

Like I said in the other thread, while I wouldn't personally return my bike over this, I surely do appreciate Yamaha being a stand-up company over a mistake they made. They're going above and beyond what is necessary and I respect them for that - which is a hell of alot more than I can say for 99.99% of the corporations out there who will screw you over a nickel.

But if you're such a squid as to actually return your bike over this.......then I guess castration is in order.

 

good read

 

Re: Re: What Soup think of the 17 500 redline LMAO!!

Like I said in the other thread, while I wouldn't personally return my bike over this, I surely do appreciate Yamaha being a stand-up company over a mistake they made. They're going above and beyond what is necessary and I respect them for that - which is a hell of alot more than I can say for 99.99% of the corporations out there who will screw you over a nickel.

But if you're such a squid as to actually return your bike over this.......then I guess castration is in order.

Read the article foo, they have the same opinion you have, and it's the way i see it too. :thumbup

 

Nice write up.

 

I agree.

 

I luv me sum soooooop!!!!!

 

Good article. :thumbup

I especially liked this part:

"But, we get the impression some owners (and, ahem, non-owners) feel that the next logical step is to gather torches and pick-axes, meet in the street and march en masse down to Dr. Frankenstein's castle and kill the monster."


Most of the people that are bitching have/had no intentions of buying one. It's just something to complain about. :bash

 

 

Damn good write up.

 

Great if i had an R6.... let me know when they decide to replace cranks on the YFZ450's that failed, or better yet take back my bike before the crank bering seizes and fix the problem.

 

I luv me sum soooooop!!!!!

and the Soup loves them some Yamaha!

ever notice Dean Adams is pretty pro-Yamaha? it's actually kinda nice.

:fork

 

Great if i had an R6.... let me know when they decide to replace cranks on the YFZ450's that failed, or better yet take back my bike before the crank bering seizes and fix the problem.

Who's to say yours is going to seize?

 

Because everyone elses has. Too many I have read about and personally seen with the same problem. My shop had like 4 of them in at the same time for the same problem. Some go, some dont. But either way... 50/50 odds of oil not lubing the crank bering properly are not odds i like. Too bad i didnt do my homework and wait for the 06 to come out where they fixed the problem.

 

:thumbup

 

Another bit of info that seemingly disgruntled 2006 R6 owners may want to consider before they roll the bike back to the dealership is that last week at the Fontana test, DiSalvo's FX-spec R6 wasn't "almost as fast a Superbike" or "a few ticks slower on the stop watch than the Superbikes" as FX bikes have been for years; it was, in fact, faster than several factory Superbikes. A 600. Faster than Superbikes. Pretty landmark motorcycle in stock or modified form, I'd say

 

aaaaa yup ! They should change the tach face to read the correct rpm.....:dunno

 

true , but still , imho that was a marketting trick! no some kind of mistake :no
its like putting a 500cc motor and sayin that was a mistake :crash

 

There's NO ONE that loves Yamaha more than me, but they had to of known the whole time what that bike red lined at...:dunno That's why they spend sooo much time and money trying to R&D these bikes, there's just no way this could have slipped through their whole program!:fact People just don't like being lied to, and that's exactly what happened here. With that being said, I wish I could afford an R6 this year, that is just one sexy machine!

 

There's NO ONE that loves Yamaha more than me, but they had to of known the whole time what that bike red lined at...:dunno That's why they spend sooo much time and money trying to R&D these bikes, there's just no way this could have slipped through their whole program!:fact People just don't like being lied to, and that's exactly what happened here. With that being said, I wish I could afford an R6 this year, that is just one sexy machine!

:iamwithst

 

true , but still , imho that was a marketting trick! no some kind of mistake :no
its like putting a 500cc motor and sayin that was a mistake :crash

Not only that, but the ECU has to control the FI. If it was reading off the tach at a 9% difference, the bike woudlnt' run. The ECU has to have an accurate reading in order to know when to fire the plugs, as well as to know when to inject fuel....no way they didnt' know about it.

 

There's NO ONE that loves Yamaha more than me, but they had to of known the whole time what that bike red lined at...:dunno That's why they spend sooo much time and money trying to R&D these bikes, there's just no way this could have slipped through their whole program!:fact People just don't like being lied to, and that's exactly what happened here. With that being said, I wish I could afford an R6 this year, that is just one sexy machine!

Well said ! The bike is just fine only reving 16.2 that the same as the gixxer 6, all the 6's peak at 14.5 anyway.....but it's still a let down....

 

great write up!

 

I posted earlier that I agreed with most of the article, and I do. But....let me see if I got this right.

A magazine publishes and article in which the R1 comes in last place, and we rip it to pieces. We make claims that journalists are paid off, that the tests are rigged, and that we would never let some other person influence how we feel about our bikes.

Yet, someone else publishes and article telling us what we want to hear, defends Yamaha and the R6, and suddenly we are cool with moto-journalism.

Right? Just checking.......:crash

 

I posted earlier that I agreed with most of the article, and I do. But....let me see if I got this right.

A magazine publishes and article in which the R1 comes in last place, and we rip it to pieces. We make claims that journalists are paid off, that the tests are rigged, and that we would never let some other person influence how we feel about our bikes.

Yet, someone else publishes and article telling us what we want to hear, defends Yamaha and the R6, and suddenly we are cool with moto-journalism.

Right? Just checking.......:crash

Yes :thumbup
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