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Performance Bikes (Kwakka Edition)

PostPosted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 9:13 pm
by aardvark
Just been to the news agents and picked myself up a copy of the latest (well, latest here, and not the airmail version) Performance Bikes.

You can't miss it, it's green, and has "Go Kawasaki" on the cover. It has a Kawasaki special in it, and it's about 40 pages. Even has a GPz900 as the centrefold....

YAY!!!!!

Go and get it.

re: Performance Bikes (Kwakka Edition)

PostPosted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 9:20 pm
by Yankee
Go and get it.

or you could just scan all 40 pages and post them for us to see!! :shock:
j/k
i'll have to go get some new reading material sounds like!

re: Performance Bikes (Kwakka Edition)

PostPosted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 9:49 pm
by sp500
was looking at that today, suppose seeing that i have a 10 i should really buy one.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 10:32 pm
by Nanna10r
Thanks for the hot tip Jas :wink: I'll pick one up tomorrow ... an i may get that Mag you mentioned while I'm out n about.
Cheers Brett

Re: Performance Bikes (Kwakka Edition)

PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 1:57 pm
by sp500
aardvark wrote:Just been to the news agents and picked myself up a copy of the latest (well, latest here, and not the airmail version) Performance Bikes.

You can't miss it, it's green, and has "Go Kawasaki" on the cover. It has a Kawasaki special in it, and it's about 40 pages. Even has a GPz900 as the centrefold....

YAY!!!!!

Go and get it.


Did you check your scratchy

look what i uncovered

re: Performance Bikes (Kwakka Edition)

PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 1:58 pm
by sp500
Damn fuggers

re: Performance Bikes (Kwakka Edition)

PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 8:29 pm
by spekt-r
They deliberately put the winning scratchies in the issues they send overseas. Ive won a holiday and a Ducati 996 in those bloody things, when I won the 996 I couldnt claim it because I didnt know any british citizens but I sent the one that had the holiday to a mates uncle in england.

re: Performance Bikes (Kwakka Edition)

PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 8:40 pm
by sp500
Ive got relatives in Scotland, but the closing date was the day I bought it, really bad timing. :cry:

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 8:44 pm
by mrmina
u won a X5 but u cant have it cos ur not a citizen of fuckerville. Thats a load of shit.

If its an english mag get them to send it to rossi's family.

re: Performance Bikes (Kwakka Edition)

PostPosted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:31 pm
by Blackzxr
Well bugger me, my scratchy is exactly the same. :roll:

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:36 pm
by KLR
Yeah I had the same thing I won like a million pounds but didnt claim it!! send it to me, my brother in law is a english citizen and they live in the UK and we will see if it is real and I will split the winnings. :lol: :lol: :lol: New ZX10's for all of us.

re: Performance Bikes (Kwakka Edition)

PostPosted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:02 pm
by Nanna10r
For those that didnt rush out n buy the Pommy mag Performance Bikes heres their Top Ten Kwikas of all time.

10. Z1 1972 900cc. (its the z9 imho)
9. Z750 Turbo 1984
8. H2 Mach IV 1971 748cc in line tripple 2 stroke
7. KR1S 1989 249cc parallel twin 2 Stroke
6. GPZ600R 1986
5. ZZR1100 1990
4. ZX6R 1995
3. ZX10R 2004
2. ZXR750 1989
1. GPz900R 1984

So there you have it Best Kwika of all time according to the Poms is the GPz900r it sold 70 000 units world wide. It introduced 16inch front wheel, watercooled inline four with 16 valve head, motor was stressed part of the alloy twin spar frame.
Cheers Brett

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:30 pm
by spekt-r
Absolute thing of beauty the GPZ900R.
They can be found pretty cheap, I was thinking of buying one and doing a cool retro thing with it, widen and lengthen the swingarm, USD forks, possibly bigger engine with NoS but same painjob and stuff, could be cool.

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 2:14 pm
by Smitty
Pontikat wrote:10. Z1 1972 900cc. (its the z9 imho)
9. Z750 Turbo 1984
8. H2 Mach IV 1971 748cc in line tripple 2 stroke
7. KR1S 1989 249cc parallel twin 2 Stroke
6. GPZ600R 1986
5. ZZR1100 1990
4. ZX6R 1995
3. ZX10R 2004
2. ZXR750 1989
1. GPz900R 1984


they think the Gpz750 Turbo belongs here???
blah..piece of crud....should be on the Worst ever list
and
I still think the Z1 (very closely followed by the Gpz900)
is #1....
in bike folklore it is as important as the CB750....
it helped define a change in bikes..that we are still seeing today...

cheers

re: Performance Bikes (Kwakka Edition)

PostPosted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 2:38 pm
by strutto
Wooo! I made the list :P