My friend and I have the same bike's, 600RR's. His is an 03' and mine is an 05'. We swithed bike's just for ****'s and giggles, and we both noticed how completely different our bike's handling is. My bike is like smooth warm butter in the corners. His seems like it's trying to fight against you from cornering. I know I read something about either him or me having inverted forks or something. But for a 2003 RACE READY bike, I don't even think his compares to mine in handling. It's still fast and sharp looking just like mine though.

I tried searching to see what the difference was in suspension, but I couldn't find anything. Maybe you guys can find me a magazine write up, or just from your past knowledge on it. Please fill me in, we are both curious.


Also, maybe you guys know of some other small subtle things that are different? I know the intake ducts are different. I have a little more tweaked engine. Completely different suspension. He has more seat padding than me!!! Haha.

Thanks in advance.
-Jeremy.

 

Look here, Review on CBRWorld

 

Nice find fish... but a little different for the states version... You had me running out to look and see if I've missed the hazard switch all this time. You can see the cut out for it... but it's not there. And I'm seeing things, or do you crazy, drive on the wrong side of the road European people have the low beam on the wrong side too?

 

Not sure what you're referring to....all of the action pics on that thread are on a track.

 

a lot of European countries, if not all, drive on the left side of the road, we drive on the right... they switch position of the driver as well... what I was say to "the people that drive on the wrong side of the road" as in a name, not a description of how the riders on the track were riding... the low beam is on the right side of the bike, the states is on the left. Look at the pics again of the riders on the track, they are running low beam only and it's on the right.

 

Not to sharp shoot doncollins but I think the only European countries who drive on the left are England, Wales, Isle of Man and North Scottland. The rest drive on the right like in the U.S.

Here is an interesting article that says a 1/4th of the world drives on the right and why. Be advised most of the reasons have to do with swords and the French. Who knew?

Regardless fish found a great write up comparing both bikes. There is a lot of people asking the writer for an update, I don't see what he left out?

 

geography class....

Anguilla
Antigua & Barbuda
Australia
Bahamas
Bangladesh
Barbados
Bermuda
Bhutan
Botswana
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Cayman Islands
Channel Islands
Cyprus
Dominica
Eire-Ireland
England
Falkland Islands
Fiji
Grenada
Guyana
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Isle of Man
Jamaica
Japan
Kenya
Lesotho
Macau
Malawi
Malaysia
Malta
Mauritius
Montserrat
Mozambique
Namibia
Nepal
New Zealand
Northern Ireland
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Seychelles
Scotland
Singapore
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Sri Lanka
St Kitts & Nevis
St. Helena
St. Lucia
Surinam
Swaziland
Tanzania
Thailand
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks and Caicos Islands
Uganda
US Virgin Islands
Zambia
Zimbabwe
St. Vincent & Grenadines
Wales

sorry for the generalization and saying European countries.