I dunno....if I gun it in first (wide open throttle all the way to redline), the front end feels light - it causes me to want to lean forward as far as I can. I don't know for sure if it get's a little air or not. I'm still afraid of it at wide open throttle and high rpms, plus, you really can't do it for long without hitting 100+, so who knows. I can tell you it's a pretty wild ride.

 

I bet. I can even feel that when I'm in 2nd as far as the front being "light". But that wild ride is the whole reason we all ride what we do!

 

I went to the sportrider.com and look at the times. I have an 01 and I was pretty impressed by the times. But I looked at the 06 F4i times and It was slower than mine in every category...why is that?

 

The front end gets a little light in 1st, but as long as you dont pull and lean back, the front wheel will stay planted.

I believe the 01s have a little more power than the 02+'s or something along those lines

 

Everytime I decide to gun it on my bike I always do so from 2nd gear cause I'm not sure of all that torque in first. So does that mean that if you full throttle in first on our f4i's the front wheel will still be stable? Other than redline coming up faster than @!$%

I do kick it in first gear, but I try to be careful, in the mid rpms I can really tell my front becomes light, and in the high rpms it actually comes off the ground. But about that time is when I have to change gears then it pops up a little more when I change then goes back down

 

It takes me longer to put on my helmet that it does to hit 60 mph. lol

 

The problem with nailing it in first gear is that you are being hard on the tranny when you shift through neutral. Thats where most trans have trouble, from the 1-2 shift at high RPM.

 

^ never heard of that... how much damage does it do?

 

You can float the front without a problem... just relax your body and let the bike do its thing. I wouldn't wind out 2nd from a stop.

 

What the front end does depends on how you hit the throttle also. If you're in first gear doing a steady ~5k and hit it, the initial torque jolt will be more likely to make the front end come up than say feathering it out from a stop. When I launch in a drag race, very rarely will the front end come up, unless I let the clutch out too fast. So it depends what you're doing.