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Motorcycle Forum / General / Sportbikes / October 20051995 YZF 600 or FZR 600 - how to tell the difference?
Hi, I'm considering purchase of a used sportbike, advertised as a 1995 YZF 600. I've been looking around on the web and have come across a lot of pictures, but it's not clear to me how to tell the difference between the FZR and the YZF 600 - they look very similar to a newbie like me. There is a reasonable differnce in the blue book values for the two, and I want to make sure I'm not getting and FZR when I'm paying for a YZF. Are there some obvious difference that I'm missing to distinguish the two? If I get a VIN number is there a way to look it up for the exact model information? TIA, TB >Hi, I'm considering purchase of a used sportbike, advertised as a 1995 >YZF 600. I've been looking around on the web and have come across a [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >TIA, >TB Yep, get the VIN, take it to a dealer, they should be able to tell you what bike it is. Wasn't there a difference in the farings/graphics too? Also didn't the FZR stay with the sharper smaller dual headlights and the YZF the larger bowed duals? It's been a while since I rode them :) > >Hi, I'm considering purchase of a used sportbike, advertised as a 1995 > >YZF 600. I've been looking around on the web and have come across a [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Yep, get the VIN, take it to a dealer, they should be able to tell you > what bike it is. No graphics on the bike in question, the farings and any graphics had been painted over, and no markings otherwise. I was only working from images from sites like bikepics.com, and the more photos of '95 FZR's and YZF's I looked at the more the same they looked. I was thinking of any glaring differences, like if the FZR was air cooled or not (as the YZF I think is liquid). I'll take a closer look at the headlights. Speaking of headlights, is there any way to retrofit a bike this old with a Xenon headlamp type setup? What I ended up doing was getting the VIN from the seller and entering it into progressive.com, which in the course of generating an insurance quote identified the bike as a YZF. Thanks, TB |
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