2025 Yamaha R9 vs Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R ┃ New vs Old Gen Supersports

[@SecondGearYT]

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[@davidlagno7717]

Not to nit pick, I love this channel but it would be great if you put top speeds and maybe 0-60mph or 0-100kph. For alot of us that makes a difference at least with the Muppets I ride with.

[@vikaaskapoor5354]

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[@USJFKSWGA]

I own a 25 zx6r, but you gotta hand it to yamaha for providing a lot of value here. I might just pick up an r9 and add it to the collection.

[@oceyho]

Its flat out better. WTF. The bike has better features, better handling on track for sure, better torque. With a flash, that thing is a track monster.

[@USJFKSWGA]

@oceyho You've literally never even rode one...get off it's nuts.

[@carollisalocquiao9139]

@@oceyho I’ll still smoke it easily with my ZX6R 😂

[@eldenlordnux1802]

​@@USJFKSWGA he don't know wtf he talking about.

[@thewarlord502]

6r for butter smooth four cylinders ❤

[@RA109E]

Hands down ZX6R for me. You can’t beat the 4 cylinder sound, feel and revs. The R9 looks cool, but I’m addicted to the inline 4. I wish Kawasaki would go nuts with a RR version of the zx6r. Give it titanium pistons, rods and valves and make it even lighter.

[@andrewcarnegie5805]

If they made a 6rr and added auto blip for 1k more everyone would buy it...

[@StreetPiratesTV]

Not with these dumb EURO emissions crap. Would be sick, but the market and economy says otherwise. Maybe in the future, but right now, that is nowhere near a pen and paper at Kawasaki.

[@Evenflow-us1py]

the R9 has a ton of torque

[@andrewcarnegie5805]

@@Evenflow-us1py Realistically speaking this is probably one of the best perks that the R9 has over the 6R ... the other big one being the Auto Blip (quick shifter down) ... But I hate the way the triple sounds personally.

[@AERoVALKYRiE]

4 cylinder engine cost more to produce than 3. That’s why r9 has more electronic control features while having similar msrp

[@jasonmcbride9410]

Yamaha, but Kawasaki is a very close 2nd. The ZX6R is an amazing bike. The only thing it needs is a bidirectional quickshifter.

[@enerzyn2896]

Also cruise control

[@Giixxersquid]

I’ll keep my 04 gsxr 600. I don’t need all the tech. I don’t have a bike for comfort, I have a bike to fulfill my happiness. If I wanted comfort I would just get a cruiser like the old guys 😂

[@Daves_Man_Cave]

R9. Better brakes, better electronics, slightly better suspension, better torque, etc... I have had 3 ZX6R's over the years, they are great bikes, but the R9 will be the better street bike for ripping around on twisty mountain roads...

[@juanescobar6644]

Zx6r pure supersport

[@xclent1975]

I’ll take Kawasaki all day everyday

[@joemann3536]

❤

[@Bin-911]

That how I catch idiot through internet

[@Il7ony89]

There is even another option…cbr 600rr

[@Justfun-gg8xi]

I love zx6r but it has no autoblip

[@kierakara69]

New Zx6r look so damn good 🔥

[@Backtothehat]

These are two very different bikes. One is a track bike with some adjustments for the street. The other is a street bike with some adjustments for the track.

[@rns6889]

No, they're both race bikes made for the street, one has been better adapted for the street thougb. R9 may be based on the cp4 platform. However it has an all new bespoke chassis, I would not say it's a street bike into race bike adjustment.

[@1c3sly13]

I'm still taking the 6R all day.

[@mociczyczki]

max performance be very close couple hp more in peak in zx6r be compensate be wider peak power band r9 what mean r9 be use similar avg max power for acceleration on 90% 👌🏻🍿

[@rebeldoc0133]

i like both but if it was me i would buy a MT09 and a zx6 for my dream garage that R9 needs a full system exhaust then the bike is fireeee

[@reidzr2s10]

ZX6R for me

[@unstoppable2131]

Zx6r 2024 model up. Is the fastest zx6r version of all. Kawi reduced 1 teeth on its gear and revised its cam to give it torque low and mid rpm. I know about this cause I own 1 the anniversary edition.

[@jhenardvalente1970]

R9 for linear power and faster to reach the top speed even ducatti follow the inline 3 and ktm.

[@Black_Drako]

Kawasaki all day long!

[@iLikeCarsFPS]

Which bike handles better on track?

[@nsant]

Zx6r I bet

[@HeldIntegral]

Why? You're not going

[@jackcornish9143]

Ninja all day every day, or a k5 600

[@PetroHead]

Its actually the opposite for the ZX6R.. The new 2024+ models are similar to the R9 whereby you don't have to crank them all the way up the RPM range to get the most power. Most of the power is available below 12K which makes it usable for the street... these AI generated videos are cool to watch but not well researched.

[@andikatryanantama9585]

Mesin yamahmudin R9 mirip²mesin khas Triumph,Bennelli khas 3 silinder 🤗

[@LeslyBarahona-uq1xu]

?

[@TencentAsu1945]

the hole in the middle of body above the engine of R9 really bothers me.😒

[@CamilBDC]

Let akrapovic cook

[@MikitaYouTube]

R9 the best

[@HeldIntegral]

You're not even a human

[@MarcoTernavasio-pv3ec]

What's old on ZX6R?

[@CamilBDC]

Just watch the video…

[@MarcoTernavasio-pv3ec]

I did more, i've buy zx6r 2024, i can speak about it, and you?

[@CamilBDC]

@@MarcoTernavasio-pv3ec because you bought one doesn’t mean it’s new 😂 bro use your brain, and still: watch the video. And to answer your initial question because it seems hard for you: - cable accelerator in 2025??? - no shifter down - same frame from 2009 - same engine from 2013 - same suspension from 2013 - same brakes from 2013 - … How the zx4rr have better equipment than the zx6r, I mean come on, a tft screen doesn’t make your bike new 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@hafizzabas]

Why compare with 900 cc? Should compare to R6

[@mightyhuman5518]

R9 all day

[@dennisJNT]

Kawa 💚

[@davidlagno7717]

I never bought a bike for practical road use. That's why I have a truck. I've never ridden a Yamaha triple but if I was in this market I'd go for the R9. They could have done a better job though. Definitely squeezed out some more HP+TQ instead of ever so slightly adding a tooth on the sprocket. I'd still take the way overdue GSXR750 any day without thinking twice.

[@TheFatBeaRr]

Ninja 🔥

[@kakesuofficial]

why comparing a 600cc to a 900cc?

[@000Trauma]

how about you compare the 3 cylinder to a liter bike?

[@nsant]

Why? They are in a completely different class. It's like comparing the R6 vs R1.

[@000Trauma]

@@nsant what determines that? I know engine displacement isn't the main factor generally but it's the main factor when it comes to classifying a motorcycle

[@nsant]

@@000Trauma Cylinders and displacement combined. It's also how the engines are designed. Look at the ninja 650 vs the zx6r. The 650 will lose to the zx6r in an almost Corvette vs Camry comparison even though the 650 has more ccs. Same with the R6 vs The R7. The R7 is slow compared to the R6. Same with the gsxr 600 vs the gsx8r.

[@000Trauma]

@@nsant all of those bikes are different categories and aren't really comparable, much like the r9 and zx6r or the r9 and a liter bike. He even says it in the vid, r9 is 50/50 on daily and track riding while the zx6r is favouring track days. A liter bike is even more focused on track days than dailying

[@nsant]

@@000Trauma That's what I'm saying. You can't compare the R9 to a liter bike. It's a different class just like each example I gave you. The R9, zx6r, Ducati Panigale V2, gsxr600/750, MV Agusta F3RR, cbr600, etc are all in the same middleweight class. Why compare the R9 to anything outside of that class? It's pointless.

[@nesto9889]

Didnt the r9 essentially replace the r1? Would be a much better comparison, seeing what they sacrificed for this

[@nsant]

No. It's in the middle weight class. The R1 is night and day faster

[@nsant]

I don't even think the R9 will beat the R6 in quarter mile or top speed

[@kforeal6809]

@@nsantquarter mile and top speed are two very different things. The R9 will absolutely destroy an R6 in 1/4 mile, just like the MT09 will. The R6 will probably eventually catch up and pass it for top speed though because it's has more power up top where the R9 will start to die out.

[@nsant]

@@kforeal6809 Cycle World has the mt09 quarter mile at 11.2 seconds and the R6 at 10.8 seconds. Acceleration times has the mt09 0-120 in 11.5 seconds. The R6 in 9.8. The R9 isn't going to be that much faster than the mt09

[@nsant]

@@kforeal6809 Cycle World has the mt09 quarter at 11.2 and the R6 at 10.8 Acceleration times has the mt09 0-100 in 8.9 seconds and the R6 in 7.9 the only thing the mt09 beats the R6 at is up to 50mph then the R6 pulls away.

[@StreetPiratesTV]

19-23 Gen 6 Is the best and most powerful model year of the 636....24-Onward is weak and watered down bad.. Shame on EURO5 crap.

[@TuNguyen-jr5mo]

R9 vs RC990

[@jm252]

ZX6 all day long..or the R6....

[@tylersk8s141]

i was thinking zx6 as a second bike but idk after watching this that r9 looking spicy

[@kaku_kiji5115]

the r9 all the way

[@SecondGearYT]

on paper it's better in almost every way. Kawasaki really needs to give the ZX-6R a full revamp to keep up

[@rei6645]

@@SecondGearYT Some how zx4r have something that 6r didn't have

[@davidlagno7717]

The 636 hasn't had much competition in a while. This will force Kawasaki to pull something out of their sleeve. They always do.

[@natural9743]

No brainer R-niner

[@throttlehungry4821]

Lol .. zx6r will beat r9 at good margin on track and on roads as well ..

[@HeldIntegral]

Congratulations on beating a 600 with 300 more cc 😂 what a joke

[@Shkibblness]

Congrats on losing to the R9 with a whole extra cylinder 😂😂😂. Kawastupid

[@adwaith6424]

🧠🤏🏼 same segment

[@superduperkid3143]

R9 looks horrible to me. Maybe it's just the stupid looking winglets?

[@agoogleuser2061]

R9 sounds awful. Smooth 4 banger Kawi all day.

[@Mcali1984]

R9 is for people who can’t ride a raw bike. Simple.

[@4nimalidad]

R1 wins xD

[@nsant]

Completely different class than both of these so yeah, it would

[@danielcheng5070]

Both are too heavy 😊

[@Black_Drako]

Less than 200kg for a SuperSport is heavy??

[@fj5434]

​@@Black_Drako Yea he has no idea what he's talking about, too heavy would be that rumored 750 cf moto supersport at around 215 kg, giving like 110 hp

[@loftyintentions1985]

Bmx would suit you then.

[@GhettoSuguru]

Both are so ugly

[@SecondGearYT]

Honestly, I don't think the zx6r is that bad. Looks way better than the R9 imo 😄

[@davidlagno7717]

​@@SecondGearYTThe R9 looks like they stopped halfway through and gave up. It doesn't need wings either.

[@LSB44446]

R9 looks small but is big

[@jarrolightfeather4703]

If compare it to R6 the best 600cc supersport that R9 gonna be a joke

[@nsant]

Yep

[@markodorfy]

R6 dog box till 10rpm

[@Samarain]

R9 all the way... Where is the R1?

[@patrickstevens3721]

The 2025 R1 comes out in March. Its basically a 2024 with wings 😂