Hey there everybody. Quick intro about myself. My name's Gabriel and I recently turned 19. I got my motorcycle endorsement last season and picked up an old 1989 Suzuki Katana 600 that wasn't running. I've been fiddling with those carbs since the beginning of last season and could never get the combination of stage 3 jets + pod filters + full V&H exhaust to tune right...but I've been riding and putting miles under my belt like crazy. I got my right knee down at the end of last season on my Katana.

Anyway, I recently bought a shell 1991 Toyota MR2, put a motor in it, drove it around for a month, then sold it for a profit. Then I sold my Katana for $1100 and I with one more paycheck I picked up this 2001 F4i with 19k on the clock for $3200. Oh, my, god. First off, the fuel injection aspect is *f-ing* incredible. No choke, no dirty carbs, no tuning. Second, holy power...the first time I got on it with this thing it picked the front wheel up in first gear! Anyway, I love the bike and every time I come outside and look at it I fall in love with it again. I love how aggressive yet understated the front end looks. To be completely honest I don't really like any other recent bikes, the GSXR's cyclops middle light look is retarded, the ZX-6R just looks meh (like a spider almost), and even some of honda's offerings are rather meh. The two (new) bikes out now that I can honestly say I like the look of are the fireblade's and this f4i's. No flame please, just my personal opinion.

To top it all off, the f4i is still <somewhat> comfortable.









Devil carbon fiber slip-on, GPR stabilizier, Pro-grip (i think) tank sticker thing, and some sort of aftermarket integrated tail.

I'm not entirely sure if it was a good deal reading the rest of the prices on these forums but it was one of the cheapest I could find in my area. Locally people were asking 4100-4500 for same year f4i's with 24-27k miles on them. This one I found out in Mechanicsburg, PA about 120 miles away.

Things wrong with it:
-FI Light and 2000rpm idle [FIXED: MAP Sensor Vacuum line wasn't in]
-(while fixing above, I fried my fuel pump ground wire, fixed)
-One bad fork seal, hope to replace both soon
-Was down in the past but no significant damage other than some scratches

Anyway, time running short and I have to run.
-Duo Maxwell

 

Welcome to the CBRF, man! Nice bike!

Hell, on a CBR forum.... I don't think you have to worry about getting flamed for that one. Plus, you trashed Gixxers already so you're double safe....

So you're from MD, huh? I live in PA, but I'm about 15mins from Hagerstown.
Been up to Mechanicsburg many many times.

 

Dude please tell you have something to lock the nice a$$ bike up too instead of gravity..................................

 

+1. Unless the thieves are Richard Simmons and his crew, I don't think they're gonna go after the scooters first..

 

Howdy hey!

LOL the others beat me to it. Sitting in that garage, she's screaming "free bike!"

 

great lookin bike! Best of luck with it.

 

Well I know a guy who knows a guy who knows another guy that has a ZX-6R so I reckon there's slim chance he'll ever get to hear what you said LOL

Anyhow ........ one sweet bike man congratulations & welcome to the Forum.

 

Hahaha, not at the moment. At home it's kept in a locked garage. Those pictures were taken in the NIH (National Institute of Health) parking garage which is pretty safe. You have to have identification to get in and then you need to have your car searched and have a special permit to get into that particular garage (its under the main clinical center).

But yeah, I definitely agree, and I'm about to order one of those Spy 5000m alarms off of ebay (saw a recommendation here on the forums).

Thanks all for the compliments...feels good to have a good looking bike for a change =P

-Duo

 

Welcome to the forum dude!! Beautiful F4i you got there, and sounds like a pretty good deal too! F4i is definitely a fantastic bike, and will last you a long looooooong time, just do the regular maintenance and it'll give you a crap ton of trouble free miles (ask how I know, lol)


I LOL'd when you mentioned the troublesome Katana carbs.... reminded me of a funny story from back in 2005. Me and a couple buddies had ridden from south Florida up to Daytona for Biketoberfest (fall bike week), about a 4 hr ride each way. It was me on my F4i, my other buddy on his RC-51, and another on a '97 Katana 600. The guy with the Katana had just had his carbs rebuilt not too long before cuz the float was sticking and overflowing the bowl. It seemed to be fine for awhile, then about half way up there started acting up a little bit. We pulled over and messed around with it some and got them working alright again, and made it up to Daytona and it was fine for a couple days. After the weekend we then start to make our way back south and sure enough, it starts to act up again, even worse this time. We ended up having to stop several times it was running so bad, and overflowing fuel everywhere on top of the hot engine (he had to fill up with gas every 80-100 miles). We were about half way back and pulled into a gas station and his bike wouldn't restart. We were kinda getting on edge by now not only because we were still 2 hours away from home, but more so because there was a cat 3 hurricane that was supposed to make landfall the next day (this was the day before hurricane Wilma, for those that might remember)..... so we just needed to get home no matter what (you get some nasty rain squalls hours before the hurricane actually makes landfall... didn't want to get caught in those). We were looking around the gas station for a hidden spot to ditch the bike and just cover it with something and give the dude a ride back home, and come back for the bike later after the hurricane had passed. I forget what we did but were finally able to get the bike started, and had already made an "if it catches on fire...." plan already, lol. Neither me or my buddy on the RC would ride next to or anywhere around him 'just in case', and he went way in front and just kept it in 3rd gear (I think) to keep the RPM's up and try and burn as much fuel as possible to try and keep the carbs from overflowing. Luckily we didn't have anymore problems out of it the rest of the way home, and we all made it home safely, just in time to catch a nap before the hurricane hit the next morning. He retired the Katana and bought a TL1000R shortly after this, lol

Sorry to thread hijack with a long *** story.... just made me laugh when I read that thinking back, hahah

Again welcome to the forum.... enjoy the new bike and ride safe!!

 

Very Clean bike!