2000 Yamaha YZF600R

Shortly after I bought it…
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Mods @ time of purchase:
- Vance & Hines SST Tail pipe
- Various flame decals
Intial Mods:
Remove:
- Removed various flame decals
Add:
- Frame sliders
- Cargo net
- Marsee zip-on tank bag.
Cumulative Modifications
- Zero Gravity Double Bubble Windscreen – Black
- Goodridge steel braided brake lines: 2 front, 1 rear
- Brake pads: Fronts – HH; Rears – F
- Metzeler Z6 tires. (Nail in my rear Z4.)
- Shifter boot.
- Black 2-wire rear turn signals. (I hate faux carbon.)
- Black 2-wire front turn signals.
- Lots of Castol synthetic motor oil. Typically the R4 race grade. Ocassionally the synth-blend, usually when hte shop is out of what I like.
- Dropped the front end height about 20mm to improve feel when dropping into a corner.
- Inserted spacers to raise the bar height 30mm
- Bridgestone Battlax 012 tires. (Slash to my rear Z6 forced this change.)
- Using angle brackets between the triple clamp and the climp-ons, I added a 4″ peice of conduit as a bar for holding accessories.
- Garmin Vista C GPS unit mounted to accessory bar.
- Back-off tail lights
- License plate holder
- Personalized plates
- 2 more cargo nets. (Broke the first one trying to strap a 17″ LCD monitor on to the back. Oops)




