Will be getting an R6 2009 Bike with a restrictor kit

Motorcycling
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The question is can you tell the difference from the SOUND of a restricted R6 to a non-restriced R6?

Many thanks peeps :slight_smile:

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Easy ! :stuck_out_tongue: Plod will be able to tell the difference too :wink:

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There is no difference in sound, but you might want to do a search on here about a guy that ran an unrestricted R6 on a restricted licence :laugh:

You can save some money by not taking out any insurance for the bike. Why bother. It wouldn’t be valid anyway :rolleyes:

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Really ? At idle they will be the same but as soon as you open the throttle and give it some the difference will be easy to spot. You’re comparing 33 bhp and 125 bhp . . . try riding your bike using just 1/5th of the throttle and see how it sounds, there’s a huge difference :w00t:

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The R6 will produce around 33 BHP (at the wheel which is how a tester would measure it) at about 5500 RPM. 33 BHP is more than enough for legal speeds.

So no, there would be no difference in sound unless you start hitting the restriction limit which I imagine would be around a ton.

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Full throttle at 5500 rpm will sound very different in a 33bhp bike compared to a full power bike, try it :smiley:

Besides, the acceleration you get from 33bhp is very low, plod will easily tell the difference in not just the sound but the acceleration . . . even the ER6 has a really noticeable difference between 33 and unrestricted 66 or whatever it is. If I jump from Sarah’s ER6 (restricted) to my ZX6 the difference is the same as walking slowly or running . . . night and day.

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There is a chap on here who has a restricted R6. When he fired it up it didn’t sound any different to a regular R6. My bike sounds better though. It can wake the dead.

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And have a very unfortunate effect on horses.

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Guess the proof is in the hearing then :slight_smile:

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a 2009 R6? u know that has to possible be the worse bike you could restrict? that will be horrible!

read some of the 600 shootout articles in bike magazines mate, that bike was purely designed for aggressive track riding, it isnt the best choice for the road anyway, let alone with its horsepower sapped.

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Good point :cool:

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The R6 is a favourite track bike I think you will not enjoy while restricted. Though it has enough power to get you about its all about high revs and being great fun to ride.
So unfortunately you may have to deal with the people that want to race you and at first you will just ignore them but when you are getting upto speed and you have those little contests to see who can get upto 70 first you will eventually get annoyed at seeing them smugly riding off away on half throttle.
But in terms of sound they wont be any different. Restricting it only limits the amount of fuel that can get into the engine. It mainly just slows how fast it climbs through the rev range and R6’s are better for acceleration or so Ive heard so you shouldnt have too much trouble with it but it will be a big drag after a while! :slight_smile:

All about choice and you wont regret it after the 2 years but the sound wont be any different so I wouldnt worry!

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Wait until he pulls away and gives it some :smiley: . . . if it’s restricted it’ll sound flat and dull compared to an unrestricted bike. They have to restrict the amount of air going in . . . the induction noise is loud, like a ZX6. If you only allow the throttles to open partially you’re keeping a lot of the noise inside and the air restriction won’t allow the engine to work so also reducing the noise.

Put two R6’s side by side and listen to each pull away . . . idle and tooling along at 30mph there’s no difference but who buys a bike for that ? :stuck_out_tongue:

I suspect the original question was really “Would plod tell the difference ?” and the answer to that is obviously, they weren’t born yesterday :w00t:

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to be fair a 2009 R6 restricted why why why

totally pointless waste of money unless you like looking at yourself in shop windows!!! you have more money than sense simple

matt

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a) not true

b) if this topic was much older he’d have been out of his probationary period anyway :stuck_out_tongue:

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It would certainly be more costly when you think about the insurance (assuming the OP intended restricting the bike because he was to take the appropriate licence as a step up in PTW ownership).

Did johij take a restricted licence? Did he get the bike? Does it sound different? Come on josh, let us know :slight_smile: and show us some photos of the bike.

I want an R6 :frowning: :wink:

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I’ve a restricted r6 2007, you can listen to mine if you want. I’ve been 120mph on it. Been on a rideout with Elad with his unrestricted gixxer, you can ask him how my R6 was too if you like.

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Does it sound different from a non restricted R6?

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I don’t think so, I’ve been riding with an older R6 which was unrestricted and didn’t notice much sound difference.

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if he wants to buy a powerful bike and restrict it so that he’s legal to ride it fair play to him. it’ll no doubt be expensive but so what? its his money and choice

the pitch of the engine noise will change as the bike reaches upper rpm’s and the restriction will change the bikes ability to hit that. the issue isn’t so much whether a restricted bike can do this but whether any 600 sports can scream in town. my 04 r6 was good for something like 80mph in 1st, how very useful down the embankment :wink:

all this full-throttle chat is meaningless for most road riding. bike mag or one of the others tested this kind of rubbish (around the TT from what i remember), and the testers barely hit full throttle from the telemetry.

for the majority of his riding, the bikes will sound the same