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I have had my R6 since Sept 2001. I picked up the brand spanking new machine from Carnell (Birmingham) after paying £6350 (on the road) with a Datatool Veto alarm/immobiliser fitted - an absolute bargain. I think you will struggle to get more bike for your money than this. I chopped-in my 1997 Honda CBR 600 for £2500. Although the Honda was like new, this was about book price for it. You could maybe get an extra £300-£400 from a smaller dealer, but their R6's are £1000 more expensive. (Click here to find out how a brick archway nearly battered my brand new bike!)
 Got on my shiny R6 rolled it out of the shiny show room, started it up, noticed the 1 mile on the clock (already PDI by Yamaha), turned the key and pushed the magic button. Excellent. Then had to sit through a lecture on where the all the buttons are and what they do, don't care just show me the throttle and will worry about the other bits later. Got on, 1st gear, pulled away, going slow, throttle very on/off, clutch lever tight, engine very very tight slows down quickly when off the throttle, tyres smooth no grip - this okay normal stuff for a new bike. 30 second later it starts to piss-down and my bike is not new any more…bollocks.
As all bikers will know, buying a brand new bike is fantastic. Every scratch and blemish there-on is your doing, no "it was there when I got it" here. The worst thing about getting a new bike is braking the engine in a painful but incredibly important process. Arse this up and you gear box/valves will rapidly be converted to iron-filings.
 All bikes have slightly different specs, but generally braking the engine in involves 500 miles at no more than 5000 RPM, the first oil change (usually free with new machine), and then another 400 miles at no more than 6000RPM. This does not mean that you should get you bike from the shop, and burn off to Wales and back there job done. The idea is that you wear-down all those important little bits in your engine to the correct operating clearances. To do this best you should try to use the whole range of RPM from 1000 to 5000, something like a run along a back-road with the old bit of dual carriageway thrown in. Also, you should try to stop the bike every 40 mins or so and let it cool-off, any way after 40 mins on a new R6 you will want to get off. This is because the original oil that Yamaha put into the bike is quite thin, so it gets thrown around the box more easily, but this means that it does not perform as good as regular engine oil. If you can choose your oil for the 1st service I would suggest Mobil 1 (Track record) oil liquid gold.
When you reach the 900 mile mark on the ODO meter that's when you can open up the bike to it's full 16000 RPM. It as this point things get really good.
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