emale1975

Hi, Just passed my test a week ago and my 2006 R6 was delivered this morning with "0" miles :-D Anyway, to run it in the book says "no more than 8500 rpm for 1000 miles"... There still seems like plenty of poke AFAIAC nearly hitting 90 and nowhere near 6000 nevermind 8... Its all happys days BUT... just read the manual again, the Shift Change Indicator on the lower right of the console I understand can be reprogrammed which is a gucci idea... but someone missed a trick when it came to running it in in the first place... I thought that "why don't I change this level to 8500 so I know that I won't be going over it (too often for the min)" which would be okay, but the book tells me that you can only reprogram > 10k.... I would have thought esp. a newbie have a big light that tells me "oi you're still running the bike it you numbty" I just think is an opportunity missed that could help with running in a new bike... I did touch the powerband slightly today but I think I'm going to need a stickier pair of gloves to hang on!!! Anyway, bottom line, does anyone know if you can get the 'darn' thing to light up at 8500rpm?

Guess this is all pretty academic as the post was from about 18 months ago, Perhaps this will be of assistance to someone else like me... I live in the UK and although 275 lbs doesn't make much sense to me... It sounds kinda "rotund" :-) I think I would be my perfect weight if I was say another foot taller... suffice to say that I'm 6'0" and 18st 7lbs... I just had my R6 (2006) delivered today following passing my bike test here in the UK a week or so ago... Am I mad picking such a bike to effectively learn on? From the outside probably, but it seemed a logical step, I didn't want anything smaller than a 600 and I wanted something that was fun!!! Its been really windy today which did kinda scare the crap out of me getting pushed around but the R6 is bloody marvelous!!! The response to me is phenominal, the size of the frame is just about right. Any smaller and I could end up looking like I was on a mini moto... Anything less to me than a 600 esp. after learning on a ER-5 just didn't seem as if it would provide the fun I was looking for... The great thing that I found out today is that even though its a true sportsbike ( and I am running it in ) you can poddle around on it quite easily, even the slow control supprised me, I expected it to be a bit of a handful at slow speeds... (typical newbie?) The book said "no more than 8500 rpm for 1000 miles"..... I was doing 4500 rpm ish and eased off when I reached 87mph! I was looking at a SV650S until I got an insurance quote for the R6 (thinking it would cost a mint) but it came in at a reasonable amount, really competative to the SV, so it was a no brainer for me really... So I guess the point I'm tryng to make is even a tubby git like me can ride a R6... albeit slowly for the moment.... it has. "Grinability!" Besides, you can't eat on a bike and there aren't any ash trays so all in all I should start loosing weight so I should only have to grow 6" and not 12" ! Happy days!