How I Built the PERFECT 600 (2018 Yamaha R6)

Have you ever had a dream that, that you, um, you had? Ah, she's throwing rocks! Oh my God. Oh, that noise. What's up guys? We're back with another freaking video! But today, you guys have all been asking me, what the heck did you do to Blow? How did you rebuild her? What? They just, nobody knows. Nobody knows. But everybody's wondering the magic question of how the heck did you rebuild it after crashing it three times. Well, the answer is quite simple. Magic. A little bit of Facebook Marketplace, a little bit of the dark web, you find a wizard, the wizard does it for you. You know what I mean? But now, apparently we're going to some weird county cheese fair. I have no clue. I don't know. I couldn't explain it to you. Hang out with blonde girls and they start doing weird stuff. We're going to talk about Blow in depth because I know you guys have been wondering. Plus, it's almost a miracle. Trust me. After crashing my bike so bad, two of the three crashes were really bad. And I thought I definitely would have bent the frame or the motor would have got effed up. But we're still here, boys. She's still running and kicking somehow. But now, let me tell you what I did to her. Pretty much the whole process of the rebuild. Let's get into it. Three, two, one. Oh, there's cars! I was going to do a wheelie, sorry. Oh, you're going to have to wait. It all started when I bought this bike, which is a 2018 R6. Back in 2019, it was a leftover. Got this off the showroom floor. Dude, I love this bike. I love the new style. First time ever getting a Yamaha street bike. Needless to say, she was completely fine for about a year. Just was ridden on the highway. Yeah, bro, bro! Come back! Guys! Throw that bitch back, bro! Hard fools. I was trying to learn how to corner. Then I went to the track. And this is where people kind of get a twist, because they think I've ruined my bike by going to the track. And that's completely wrong. If anything, I have fine-tuned my bike through the track. That experience has allowed me, even through the crashes, has allowed me to pretty much end up... You know, when I break something, I usually end up either upgrading it, or if it's a part that doesn't need to be upgraded, I just buy another one, which, yes, that sucks. But I'm a firm believer if it breaks, upgrade it. Even if you've got to spend a little bit more money, I took that opportunity to... Oh my gosh, she's out. What I was saying, through the track, I have fine-tuned my bike to my personal liking. No, it's not a full-blown race bike. That's expensive. But I do have a heavy amount of mods that I've done to this bike. Like, this bike is far from stock. Very much far from stock. I'm not doing inside work on the motor. I don't really want to. It's too long. She's staring. She's like, damn. She had that weird squint face with the... Licking your lips. I don't know, she was eating bread or something, but she was, like, staring at me. I don't know how I feel about it. I think... I think Blondie's got some competition. Old lady might want me. Did you just almost fall? I saw that. We're going to leave the camera somewhere for you, boss. We'll see what you do. I got a pig. Crap. We're back. I'm fat and full. I want to take a nap. I sense that I need to do a wheelie. Get some height back. Must food coma. Oh, we both don't know where we're at. Awesome. First crash was a very bad crash. Totally yard sale of my bike. Totally yard sale of this thing. There goes my day. We're good. And it was insane, because I've never... Like, that was the moment where I was like, okay, do I buy another bike, or do I rebuild it? And I rebuilt it. That required a lot of work, but I rebuilt it as a track bike. As you guys know, we like to smile and believe, baby. So don't forget that. We ran with a little fierce look. Caught a few things. Lost a few things. Took a lot of BS off. Turned this into a track bike. I did actually miss riding the bike on the street. Surely for the, I guess, looks. Not so much the speed, but really just the looks, as well as photo shoots and Instagram content. And that's honestly what I miss this bike for. I don't know why, but I mean, some people love stars. Some people are just not a fan, and they love this. I don't get the difference, but as much as you guys missed below, I did too, because I was only riding her once or twice a month, and that's terrible. That's a no-go. After the second crash, if you guys still don't know about the second crash, you will find out about the second crash. I still have the video. I'll post it when I'm ready. That one wasn't too much. That was about a grand of fixing things. After that, I had the third crash, and the third crash was the one where I broke my wrist. And that one was a spicy one. That one is the one that I broke the forks, the triple trees. I snapped all of that. I had a broken case on the right side. That's what I'm talking about. That doesn't sum up everything I've done to this bike since I've gotten it, since after this last crash. Let's go to a place where I can actually show you and explain everything. Is Ryan here? Ryan? Yo, man. What's going on? Good. What fork oil would you recommend for the FZ? For you? Yeah, I'm doing the seals. I've been jumping it too much. I would go at least 10. Okay, I think... Not because of your weight. Yeah. You're riding. But what happens if I go a little bit heavier? It's just going to be stiffer. What about 20? Would it work? I'm not tracking the bike. It's a stump bike. I'll go 20. A lot of it. You know what I mean? I want to do bigger jumps. That's the funnier part. Oh, wait. Wrong bike. That one. That's the one you came to see. So, I hope you guys enjoyed that little bit. If you made it this far in the video, first, make sure you like it. Leave me a comment down below. Give me your thoughts. Do you think I should have did something different with this build? If you're not already subscribed, make sure you subscribe and make sure you hit that bell notification so you know when I upload. Since the crash, there's probably over a probably around five parts that I have put on. I made a whole list right there on Star of everything I've done to it. Yeah, that looks that looks pretty juicy, don't it? That's a it's a lot. It's a lot. I have done a lot to this bike and I didn't even realize it until now. But let's get into it. I'll tell you what I've done recently after the last crash where I broke my wrist. Insert video now. Oh. Oh, my wrist. Don't tell me you're broken. Oh. Come on. I got work tomorrow. Can you go to the hospital? Yeah, it sucks. But we made her beautiful again. Again, it just it doesn't stop. She goes down three times and still looks freaking gorgeous. To start off, I did need throttle cables, which these were broke right here. The big thing was is when the bike kept on it threw me off. The bike actually stood back up, never actually fell and kept going straight. And it went into the forest as you guys saw. But what you guys didn't see, nor did I see it. It went straight into a tree, which caused it to halt immediately. The after effects, I don't know if they're still there. They are. Can you see? You see that? That's the front wheel touching the headers. That was the damage that was caused. That wheel should never touch the headers. So what happened was is the front wheel smack snapped the triple trees because the forks wanted to go this way. I don't even know if my last set of forks was actually bent or it just snapped the triple trees. But I didn't wait around to find out. What we did was we actually swapped it out for R1 forks, which riding it right now, I can't tell if there's a massive difference. But for some reason, something tells me the rebound is a little bit stiffer. It does work. It rides. I think I have to adjust it one more time. But aside from that, we got new triple trees and we got new forks. They are one forks and these things are working out. It handles roughly the same. I want to get it adjusted by a professional. It rides like an R6. If not a little bit better. It's a weird thing to say. Once I did that, all my tank pads were messed up and this is one thing I kind of live by. If I am riding a bike, right, and I'm suited up and I'm going into corners aggressively, I need these. These are tank pads. These save my wrists, save my hand from any additional pain. Under heavy braking, it helps my body not slide forward and put all my weight on my actual handlebars but keeps my butt back because I can squeeze my legs against the tank and hold myself back. Especially with an R6 that has such an aggressive angle and pushes you here. Right? This is where my kids die. This is where the kids die. It's happened. You guys know. If you watch the old Moto Vlogs, you know it's happened. We even talked about inventing a pillow tank cover. We thought about wrapping a pillow right here. I thought of it all. One of the big portions that I was actually waiting for, this hole that made the process kind of long, is I had to send out my quick shift and essentially the first version that I had, there was a security issue with just Yamaha. I think it was just R6's but it basically was the ECU and the quick shifter kind of button heads and it would cause it to false trigger. But now that I have the V2, basically I had to send it out. They sent it to the manufacturer. Shout out to Scott at Moto D because he made that all happen and now I have the version 2. I believe that I'm still coming across this issue right now. Just with my rear set, which are, while we're here we're talking about it, I have Woodcraft rear sets and the issue here is just the way that they're set up, my rod is actually touching. I think when the left hand turns it vibrates and basically sends a false signal there. The way that I need to fix it is basically I just need to get into the settings on the actual module. Over here, turn down the sensitivity a little bit so it doesn't get triggered by that but more so my forceful movement of my actual foot hitting, if you know what I mean. While I was at it, we had some nasty scars. Not on the frame, surprisingly enough, all three crashes did not affect the frame, did not affect the motor, which was a very good thing. Swing arm was included as well. I did want to just kind of spice it up so I threw a little bit of carbon here, threw a little bit of carbon here, threw a little carbon there. The most obvious thing was is I took off the track bearings because they were kind of destroyed. Luckily, I won these in a giveaway from ABS. We did our own styling. Guys, this is wrap. I don't know how many times I got to tell you but that is a wrap. I prefer to kind of wrap all my bikes because, I mean, yes, it doesn't actually hold up as good as paint and of course, I would want to paint but wrapping basically is I can create my own design. I've done this one, two, I've wrapped my bike three times and I've liked the outcome every single time because I can create it my own way in a different way that stands out from every single other bike out there and you guys know that. Let's talk performance, right? You guys have probably all wondered. Now, I forget the numbers but I do want to say I'm pushing about one. Who was calling me right now? Five minutes later. That's the ultimate question. Take this with a grain of salt but I do believe that Blue is actually pushing. I want to say 113 to the wheels. Last time I had it on the dyno and that was at Boss Racing. This bike is tuned. Actually, I don't want to say tuned but it is flashed by Boss Racing. They did throw it on the dyno for a couple of runs. That was after my first crash. They flashed it. We had it flashed and then I had a second time there. They fixed it and then they ran it on the dyno just to make sure everything was straight and there was no other actual issue. The only thing I actually really have done to actually pretty much boost up my performance I do want to say is just my air filter. Now, I have a Sprint P08 filter which I heard is insane for these R6s. It really opened up the bike when I did just put that in there. Then I did the flash and I was like holy crap this feels like another bike. I ride this thing in standard most of the time because I do ride it on the street but when I go to the track I'm either in standard or if I'm feeling good my throttle control is feeling good. If my hand is pretty much warmed up very smooth movement I go to A mode because A mode is just the power is definitely there. The throttle response is so crisp in A but it's more of a track thing. You know what I mean? You don't want to be so touchy on the street. I don't need to be sitting at 160 miles an hour I'm not racing anyone. I'm not racing anybody on straights. I wanted a little bit more bottom end. The R6s these bikes are insane up top. They have so much yelling room that they just scream for their life and when you bang through the gears the power is just there there and it never goes away but bottom end sometimes can hit you. What I did is I jumped up two teeth in the rear so I went from a 43 tooth to a 45 tooth rear sprocket and then I had a new front sprocket going up two teeth in the rear really brought the bottom end alive and that was huge and I've never told all you guys this stuff but I've never done a build series on this bike and I think with my next bike I think I'm going to do a build series. My bike is one of the faster 600s. Now granted there is a million other 600s out there that would smoke this but when it comes down to it from what I've done this bike really does excel and granted a lot of that is from the factory and it being a 2018 R6 but nevertheless again this bike isn't it's just it's a powerhouse compared to a lot of other 600s aka let's say this one this one will take it all day long sorry dad I don't mean the trash on your 600 but should have bought an R1 now you guys do know back to revisit the quick shifter right there the quick shifter is one of those things for the track that just makes life 100 times easier it doesn't exactly make your times faster but what it does is it allows your mind to focus on other things so that you don't need to focus on that clutch at all the quick shifter with the auto blip that means I can clutchless up shift and down shift I have it in GP shift I have it flipped because that's currently how I like the bike set up and especially on the track if you're interested in it it's one of those things that if you buy if listen I have stainless steel headers from cobra and I had a cobra slip on but it blew up technically I crashed on it it broke I tried to fix it and then it literally blew up I have the acro megaphone which was my first exhaust when I got this bike now one thing if you do want to protect your bike you do want to make sure that you get some case covers these probably would be one of the bigger things because if you do drop this bike on the side imagine you drop it you tear apart your case to your engine case covers I have wood craft right here these I do forget who they are from this is the lifesaver saves you I don't know how else to put it you need this on like every bike go buy one do it just do it probably one of my favorite parts on this bike probably my braking system I did the braking system right after my first track day because I started getting brake fade it was really bad and I was like I never want to go into turn one and not be able to stop myself and go straight off the track because of that the first thing was is ABS had to go under here there is a module I took all the lines out I had to get these steel braided lines that were non ABS I did not actually add a ABS delete module I just capped off the module so I don't have an ABS light it's like fooling a system basically it's a cheap man's way of getting around it the braking force on this bike it never fails to amaze me how fast you can actually stop on this thing you know every other bike I've owned has never had brakes like this and it's not like I have Brembo freaking calipers I don't you can go as fast as you want but you also need to know how to stop especially if you ride on the street and it's an emergency or even the track you know what I mean someone crashes right in front of you you need to get on your brakes what I did is still braided lines like I said this is all from golfer golfer or golfer gaffer golfer I'm sorry if I'm pronouncing it wrong but these guys helped me out and pretty much guided me through the whole thing but the front I got semi-metallic I believe they're semi metallic but they are the race pads basically they kind of wear away a little bit faster but I don't ride the bike too much the bite on them is insane but to make the feeling better I had to go passato and this master is a 19 by 18 and the feeling basically has smoothed out so before I had the OEM one and basically it felt like no brakes no brakes brakes and and that's what the old master felt like now it's like anytime I touch it I'm already this is this is engaged at a certain percentage a very low percentage but it's there and I can feel that and if you're learning how to trail break this is key this is key if you have a bike that's no brake and then all brakes and there's really no in between you need that smooth feeling when I wanted to learn how to trail I had to buy this because I felt like it was very much stopping me this really helped allow me to understand and start taking my steps further as a rider and my braking because braking is just as important as leaning it's just as important as going fast in a straight line I never knew that until the track to pair with that I do have a driven brake reservoir not really important but it's there after the first crash I did do vortex clip-ons and the clip-ons are kind of important if you can't adjust your bars it actually might be very much beneficial to you it's not really too expensive it might be hard for you to tell they are adjusted out outwards normally maybe they sit like here I have pushed them out so I have a very wide angle but when I'm going into my corners it helps me because my shoulders are kind of out and going from straight down to straight within it to coming out here and really just grabbing the end and I'm still working on it I am still working on it I'm not a freaking professional as you guys freaking know no I'm a content creator I'm not a racer so I did not want to roll them I wanted a thin grip they were just too bulky I felt like my hand was wrapped around I wanted a smaller grip so I bought the smallest grip I could find which was a Renthal and by it being smaller it takes less of my hand don't take this the wrong way don't I don't want to hear no freaking memes because I'm not going to hold my hand up around a bulky thing I'm okay I'm done talking about this you guys get the point but I just don't want to put my hand I feel like you guys are judging me so not that I care but like we're not doing that so next of course I got an ASV lever because I did not want the shorty Chinese ones that I had I do have a DB stay front which is technically a race stay front but it I made it work a quick action release from Moto D which is very simple now the carbon tank this is from Se Moto this is a extender this is the see the angle that's not at all with the angle of the tank normally is but what this does is this is extended tank so basically my legs stay in place more often I it also keeps me pushed back more of course one of the first things I did when I got this bike was delete the mirrors I have a zero gravity double bubble well I have done a lot first crash I did mess up my coolant reservoir tank so I had to get a motion pro one which is actually pretty neat it just kind of fits in here you kind of make it work I also have Moto D caps here you can see safety wired right now and I have to safety wire my dipstick which was the cause of my third crash of me breaking my wrist that actually came loose somehow some way but it was tight the night before crazy things happen don't care we're over it the only thing that you really can't see is I have a lightweight battery which is a massive difference from the OEM battery as far as weight other than that that's really everything with the bike right now I'm running supercorsa v3 is on it I don't have an opinion right now they do stick but I need to feel them on a very hot day so I'm going to stick them on a very hot day yes I have little chicken strips this is a 180 60 which helps me flip-flop the stock size is 180 55 so on the 60s they're actually taller more of a balloon shape so to speak and not so much flat now you guys understand everything I've done to this bike which is a lot do you think I should have done something different though kind of a track bike but it's street legal that's kind of what I had to shoot for thing I got I think I covered everything on the bike that was a lot was that a lot do you guys think I should do anything else should you also sub and then go watch one of my other videos I'm going to videos hmm that's the ultimate question but I love you if you're not hype get hype stay hype I hope you guys enjoyed the video peace out