Kawasaki Green Meanie

66-V8 · Jun 15, 2015

Talking of Kawasaki green meanies, here's a proper one...

CRB · Jun 16, 2015

I had never even heard of these. A 750/4 watercooled stroker. A Japanese Squariel.

zx9 · Jun 16, 2015

CRB said:
I had never even heard of these. A 750/4 watercooled stroker. A Japanese Squariel.

Where did you find that CRB? I just had a look at both of Roy Bacon's Kawasaki books and it aint there.

Wallace · Jun 16, 2015

CRB said:
I had never even heard of these. A 750/4 watercooled stroker. A Japanese Squariel.

Imagine that with a a Stan Stephens tune in the wet!

zx9 said:
Where did you find that CRB? I just had a look at both of Roy Bacon's Kawasaki books and it aint there.

I swear he could find Lord Lucan! :laughing:

CRB · Jun 16, 2015

https://www.flickr.com/photos/teamheronsuzuki/sets/72157625769619760/ If you cannot get in, shout up.
http://fjstuart.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/featured-bikes-yamaha-kawasaki-750-two.html

It was near this beauty. http://www.bike70.com/GG75.html

I must find a 'slobbering' emoticon.

...and as for Lord Lucan...my lips are sealed.

I am looking for LTs in paddocks and keep finding bikes, dangnabbit.

daleyd · Jun 16, 2015

Ed Lawson (my favourite bike racer from my favourite era of bike racing), getting a bit squirrely on a big green "Z". Awesome

zx9 · Jun 16, 2015

CRB said:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/teamheronsuzuki/sets/72157625769619760/ If you cannot get in, shout up.
http://fjstuart.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/featured-bikes-yamaha-kawasaki-750-two.html

It was near this beauty. http://www.bike70.com/GG75.html

I must find a 'slobbering' emoticon.

...and as for Lord Lucan...my lips are sealed.

I am looking for LTs in paddocks and keep finding bikes, dangnabbit.

Thank you CRB, I am not convinced that the two engines are the same, the studio bike looks to have much less offset between the two sets of cylinders. Lets not forget the mad multi cylinder bikes the Yanks like to build by grafting two or more triples together if you want mad Kwackers.

zx9 · Jun 16, 2015

daleyd said:
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Ed Lawson (my favourite bike racer from my favourite era of bike racing), getting a bit squirrely on a big green "Z". Awesome

A very big heavy bike, much respect to Eddie.

CRB · Jun 16, 2015

zx9 said:
Thank you CRB, I am not convinced that the two engines are the same, the studio bike looks to have much less offset between the two sets of cylinders. Lets not forget the mad multi cylinder bikes the Yanks like to build by grafting two or more triples together if you want mad Kwackers.

I was thinking it may be the gentrification of the racer making it look smoother, less basic.

Tinbasherdan · Jun 25, 2015

If there was one bike ive had and outright despised, it was a kwak zx6r ninja , and to be honest having had a crack on mates ninjas of various flavours, I hate the lot! Anything pre 2000 was like riding a blancmange, anything afterwards with the exception of the zx10 was just completely uneventful to ride

Richard. · Jun 25, 2015

Tinbasherdan said:
If there was one bike ive had and outright despised, it was a kwak zx6r ninja , and to be honest having had a crack on mates ninjas of various flavours, I hate the lot! Anything pre 2000 was like riding a blancmange, anything afterwards with the exception of the zx10 was just completely uneventful to ride

Hate to disagree but I personally love some of the kwacks. IMO the c1h zx6 2003/4 was anything but uneventful for a 600. It was IMO more of a wild card than the R6, gsxr600 and cbr 600rr of the same year.

Tinbasherdan · Jun 25, 2015

To me the r6 was and always has been a far superior motor. Never got on with kwakkas. I'll even go so far as to say I prefered my 4t 250 Ktm, which despite not being able to stay within its valve clearances for more than 8 seconds and refusing to start on a regular basis, because at least when it ran it was fun. My ninja was all kinds of boring. And it's not like it was a tired bike, it had had a fair bit of work done just prior to me getting it, I know both the owner and the mechanic that did the work, and it was still miserable

Tinbasherdan · Jun 25, 2015

Maybe I'm just Yamaha shaped, everything about my r1 suits me, and it just feels good to ride . Saying that, I did have a go on a bmw s1000rr recently and by God it was fun.

Richard. · Jun 25, 2015

Na not for me. I found the 2002 R6 to be gutless in the midrange in comparison to it's c1h rival. I agree about the kwack models before the 2003 take off as they were big and bulky but I loved the 2003/4 zx6 and found it a lively ride. I owned a c1h zx10r for a couple years and that thing was vicious. I've actually owned and rode most jap sports bikes in various models and years and kwacks and gixxers are my top 2.

Tinbasherdan · Jun 25, 2015

See I like gixxers for the most part, burnt rode the k9 750 and thought it was crap. I like the powerbandy-kick you in the face and shout at your mam power delivery of the r1 and I think the gixxer was just so smooth all the way through it felt a bit effortless and dull. That and I've yet to ride any gixxers that have half decent brakes!

Richard. · Jun 25, 2015

Brakes are a weak point on all the gixxers and a set of braided lines and ebc pads makes all the difference. What your saying is right about the power but that's what I like about them. Low down and midrange grunt from the off. The thing about the gsxr is any gear any rpm it will pull without hesitation. I like r1's when you get them wound up but yammy tend to leave out the midrange and give them a top end blast which is fine if you want to live at 9000rpm or above. I do like the classic 1st gens like the one in your avitar. Never rode one that old but they look the business.

Woody.v8 · Jun 25, 2015

Tinbasherdan said:
If there was one bike ive had and outright despised, it was a kwak zx6r ninja , and to be honest having had a crack on mates ninjas of various flavours, I hate the lot! Anything pre 2000 was like riding a blancmange, anything afterwards with the exception of the zx10 was just completely uneventful to ride

I've had 4 zx9r's now I think they are massively under rated and man sized, I have had r1's and quite a few gsxr's but I keep going back to the ninja,Plenty quick enough for the road anyhow!!

zx9 · Jun 26, 2015

mrfuzzy said:
I haven't had the cash for a bike for... ~13 years now...

Last one I had was a Suzuki 250 X7...think half the town had owned it at one point or another....amount of guys who did a double take at it when it was sitting outside my work at the time was unreal..."my mate owned that back in 82", "my mate wheelied that into the back doors of the RBS around 86"....

I sold it to my dad when I went to NZ....he gave up on it as the crank seals went and sold it in bits to someone in Laurencekirk...

Mad piece of kit....gutless beyond ~80mph...but mad as mad could be below that...bit hairy on windy days though due to lack of mass...almost got blown into the front of a car on the double bends before the railway bridge heading north towards aberdeen on the A90...butthole tightening experience...just missed his nose and no more...despite leaning heavily into the wind to try and stop the slide...

When the ZX1100A2 was in for a major engine re build (around 1988 /89) I had the loan of a mates X7, drop bars, expansion pipes and over bore. Knife edge powerband, noisy as hell and smoked like a trooper what a fun bike, I loved it. I was still happy to get the GPz back with it's 1170 kit, smooth bore carbs , it would launch the front wheel into the air just by rolling on the throttle in second gear in short the ideal bike for a 25 yr old to commute daily through central London. Unless is was summer and you got stuck in traffic due to the super tanker like turning circle, then it would fry it's oil and get all sulky.

norlander · Jun 26, 2015

Honda, Kawasaki,Suzuki,Yamaha,Ducati,MotoGuzzi,Aprilia,MV,Harley, Triumph,BMW,Victory,Royal Enfield, KTM, etc etc, don't matter wot the name is on the tank, leave your prejudices in the cupboard, use Fast Bikes mag and Motor Cycle News for bog paper, anything with two wheels and an engine is fun.

Tinbasherdan · Jun 26, 2015

Richard. said:
Brakes are a weak point on all the gixxers and a set of braided lines and ebc pads makes all the difference. What your saying is right about the power but that's what I like about them. Low down and midrange grunt from the off. The thing about the gsxr is any gear any rpm it will pull without hesitation. I like r1's when you get them wound up but yammy tend to leave out the midrange and give them a top end blast which is fine if you want to live at 9000rpm or above. I do like the classic 1st gens like the one in your avitar. Never rode one that old but they look the business.

if you are heading past my way you're more than welcome to come and have a go

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