ZX7R P2?

You can get a second hand unit one with the budget you mention...

ZX2R is good for learning & experience the feel of riding big inline 4 bike....& due to its compact size it can behave almost like 150cc or kapcai on the road....still can ciloking at moderate speed without need to be quite slow like riding the 1000... (but still if you ride a bike most of time you still in front of the car while waiting the traffic light...no matter what bike it is except goldwing or Harley Dyna cruiser lol)

BTW,the downside is same as eyrayus said...the overall compact engine dimension leading to very small internal part & it is DOHC!!!(Even old proton & most of 90's affordable sedan also not use DOHC so you can imagine what would happen if you "manage" to get all those tiny little valve colliding with piston head....that surely cost alot! )

I have been tracked my ZX2R quite a time for last 2 years....pretty good if you know how to maintain it & willing to put $$$ for expensive fully synthetics engine oil & doing a regular check up.
I always change my fuel filter when I change the engine oil,& that was happen around 3-5 month or 3500-4000 KM or whichever come first.

Carb also been checked once a year with cleaning & setting,& air filter & air box will be inspected & I will change the new filter element around 2 month if I use the bike often,or 4-5 month if there is a rainy session...(prefer to ride my kapchai or drive when rainy session )

The bike reliabilty is not as bad as you think but because it old metal horse...so you know the drill.
At least during my time of owning this baby ninja,I never get any broken valve of degrading in engine performances(It still can clock 240km/h at the tacho...& smoothly rev to 18k without jerk or feel of power cut-off)


This post has been edited by Cyprid Dark ii: Nov 2 2010, 04:24 AM

All is OK already.....now also I painted the bike last 2 month....still blue colour but this time it abit bright...not a dark blue like before...
& from the time I got the bike from previous owner,the rectifier & electrical is the major headache...other than that everything is OK minus the chipped & cracked paint & not so shiny chrome exhaust(lazy to clean it haha)

I used to ride it quite a time when I was in form 5 ,going to college from langat-melawati ,ride & TTS....honestly said,now I can say many people that just heard what other says about this bike reliability & daily ride that can shorten your engine life prematurely is not true...as long you can afford to maintain the bike & interval service I think it would do good for 120k all from standard OEM part.(because I have ZZR250 that been abused for KL-Thai ride quite often & maintained all the interval service like me,end up the engine totally fail him at 158,000 km....after that totally rebuilt ground up & it still does a daily ride for him before getting sold to lucky buyer )

BTW,I did not have time tracked the bike anymore due to the work & also wanna puasa for upgrade laa....

This post has been edited by Cyprid Dark ii: Nov 2 2010, 06:32 PM