Lightest 1000cc Sportbike
Some prefer models suited for long road trips some want a comfortable commuting bike while others simply want a motorcycle that looks great but for riders who favor performance above all else nothing tops a 1000cc sportbike.
Lightest 1000cc sportbike. Built for technical track riders the 2019 yamaha yzf r1m is one formidable piece of machinery. Top 11 lightest production road bikes. In any case all the supersports weight around 410 420lbs ready to ride and i doubt you d notice that weight difference unless you do track days and even then you d have to ride them back to back to really tell. A yamaha r6 weighs 190kg.
For the uninitiated sportbikes are a class of street. I think the gsxr600 weighs the least but you won t find any road going 500cc sportbike that weighs anywhere near 309lbs. In this case it depends on what you classify as a sports bike. For starters we have a 998cc inline 4 cylinder engine featuring titanium fracture split connecting rods an industry first for production motorcycles while a class leading electronics package offers total ease of operation digital rider aids such as traction control and.
The motorcycling community is large and diverse with various riders asking different things of their bike. You might have thought that the weight of bikes since it s one of the most defining features of their riding experience would be both heavily promoted and clearly defined. Current models over 125cc. So far i have only come up with the honda cbr600rr at about 372lbs dry weight.
A naked husqvarna 701 vitpilen has a bigger engine a spo. I mean straight from a bmw source i see quotes like we have built the lightest 1000cc sport bike and similar quotes from ducati and several other online editors that. In truth we could just as easily have put the latest kawasaki zx 10r here the two are so close but the german reinvigorated the superclass when it was launched with 190bhp in 2009 and it s pretty much remained at the top of the power charts through all its incarnations since. How come when you search google for lightest liter bike or 1000cc sportbike you see many examples other than our k5 k6 1k s.
A fully faired kawasaki 600 weighs just under 200kg. Fri 7 feb 2014.