subiedude09's 07 ZX6R thread (picture heavy)

Hi Everyone, I have some time to burn so I figured I would make a thread for my 07. It may be a mediocre "build" or normal modifications to most but I feel its more then that. This is a thread I can look back on in the future to see my progression from when I bought my first bike, to when it was sold, died, got totaled, or became my first race bike as well (wishing a nice long happy life for my bike btw lol). Now that my introduction to the thread is complete, ill start with the pictures, and small descriptions.

I bought my bike in the summer of 2014. It had a few upgrades already, and had 6,300 miles. It had a double bubble smoked windshield, HID's, was lowered with T-REX Racing lowering links, a couple carbon fiber pieces, and had a green ek chain.

Pictures that were sent to me by the seller:




When I first got it home. I think my son was more excited then I was





I then joined this wonderful forum, did some research and purchased my first "bike part"...a rear stand. I purchased the stand because I know I was going to need it for some work I wanted/needed to do to it, and I knew it was going to help greatly with oil changes due to the incline in draining the pan. I also found out about the lovely "jumper mod"...so i went to do the mod, and found out the bike was already jumped. Someone beat me to it lol.




Days after I got in touch with a buddy and went together to get state inspections. (I know...we were both squidding)



After a couple weeks of riding, and getting used to the bike, I ordered some parts, and installed them. I ordered a TST license plate bracket and an led license plate light setup, Chinese levers, factory links, and a set of oem bolts for the handle to the triple (mine weren't there and the handles were just clamped to the fork).









Much better:




Now that the bike was raised and fit me a lot better (im 5'10") I was extremely happy with it. it performed much better and I was more confident/comfortable on it. I rode it everywhere I could, and every time I had the chance...I even brought it to a Subaru meet instead of my Subaru :laugh






After about 1200 miles of riding, my clutch cable frayed. I bought a motion pro cable, and replaced it. Shortly after that I made an appointment with my local Kawi dealer to get my valve cover gasket replaced under the Kawi recall as I started to notice a small leak in the gasket.




While the bike was in the shop, I ordered a Pinebox slip-on, and asked Dave if he could be so kind and coat my mid-pipe with the ceramic coating as well to match the slip-on. He told me it was fine and that it obviously was an extra charge and I would have to send out my mid-pipe. I waited to get the bike back, and then got to work and sent out my mid-pipe.



The wait for my exhaust after I shipped the mid out wasn't too bad (roughly 4-5 weeks) but I was worrisome, as the riding season was coming to an end at this time. I finally received the exhaust, got it on, and still had about 3-4 weeks of riding. :bigthumb:

The exhaust looks flipping AMAZING!!!:yumyum: I was so happy! I ended up cutting a carbon fiber piece I had to clean up the side of the bike some too.








Here is a video I recorded to hear the sound of the exhaust normally riding. There were a few video's on YouTube, but non just driving normal. Just revving, or wide open throttle pulls. Feel free to subscribe and such :colgate:, but if not, w/e :2fingerlol: hehe
https://youtu.be/t1belfLt3nU