GS500 Chasing Down 600's

You guys are hurting my brain a lot

If you are on a GS500, and you can go faster than people on your average 600, then you are a better rider than them

If he was riding with people of a similar skill level, of course he wouldn't have a chance

It's a ****ing GS500

Holy ****

Nobody is surprised that one rider can be better than another. The surprise seems to be that a good rider on a 500 can beat a mediocre rider on a 600.
People really underestimate how rider skill makes a much bigger difference than the bike, but it does (at anything outside of pro racing, kind of ironically).
 
time to buy a 250 and start smoking green group noobs on the track. all them gtam noobs will think i got mad skillz.

Get a small bike + smoke beginners on the track + Start getting crazy view counts on youtube = Profit $$$$
 
Not experienced enough myself to really judge his track skills, but by the looks of the triple/forks, he's spent a bunch on that front end. A stock GS500 gets pretty vague above 100 km/h and heavy braking gets...interesting.

Looks like a GSXR front end on that bad boy... not a difficult swap apparently. I've wanted to do it for a while but can't justify it for street. It's a pretty common mod for the track though
 
He's saying that at amateur or track day level, the rider makes all the difference. 125 vs 500 vs 600 vs 1L is irrelevant until you get into the fast group.

Exactly. I enjoyed this summer at SMTP Long as my youngest on a 125 passed people in Green and my older on a 250 dealt with Intermediate group 600s turning slightly slower lap times.
 
I just saw this ranking on Reddit. Makes me want to spend less $$$ on my bike and spend more time riding.

[video=youtube_share;gymLfLw654Q]http://youtu.be/gymLfLw654Q[/video]
These are very amature track riders. Look at the body position of the guy at 1:12 in the blue and yellow RR (stiff as hell and his posture is of street riding). When he does pass them at at the 1:30 mark, the entrance position of those three riders are wrong for that corner (Not expert riders by any means). Most likely a group of street riders on their first track day. Happens all the time at the track, for all we know the lead 600 was taking his buddies out for the first time at the track. Useless bravdo without context.
 
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