Kawasaki Sportsbike Riders Club - Australia - Online Forum

by **Gosling1** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:17 pm

javaman wrote:I heard they're cheaper alternative to gixxer 750 ?

(duck .....)

don't laugh, I picked up the 12 brand new last year, for *cheaper* than a new gixxer 600 :shock:

The magazine reports and test-rides at the time always rated the ZX7R as having one of the best front-ends in the business. Full stop. It was always raved about.......

by **Ment** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:01 pm

Gosling1 wrote:
The magazine reports and test-rides at the time always rated the ZX7R as having one of the best front-ends in the business. Full stop. It was always raved about.......

Damn fine point that.

Has anyone here actually lost the front of their 7?
not on the track going 110% but normal road use?

by **mrmina** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:10 pm

+1.

they are good.

dont worry about smitty, those 12's are shit. good for a straight line but thats it.

by **smek** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:32 pm

what's all this +1 shit going on?

what's it supposed to mean? It's geeky and silly and I don't like it.

by **mrmina** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:37 pm

smek wrote:what's all this +1 shit going on?

what's it supposed to mean? It's geeky and silly and I don't like it.

+1 on nikos being a knob

by **smek** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:06 pm

-(infinity + 1) on that!

by **mrmina** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:07 pm

smek wrote:-(infinity + 1) on that!

+1

by **greenmeanie** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:26 pm

Gosling1 wrote:
javaman wrote:I heard they're cheaper alternative to gixxer 750 ?

(duck .....)

don't laugh, I picked up the 12 brand new last year, for *cheaper* than a new gixxer 600

The magazine reports and test-rides at the time always rated the ZX7R as having one of the best front-ends in the business. Full stop. It was always raved about.......

Still is mate even amongst the current crop of sportsbikes.

Doesn't have the outright top end of a litre bike but with the right rider aboard can match it with anything in the twisties/sweepers etc. :twisted:

Having the lastest & greatest doesn't mean shit if you can't ride it! :wink:

There is a great satisfication in rounding up much bigger & newer bikes on an outdated overweight underpowered bike.

by **Strika** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:35 pm

As a road bike they are not really underpowered nor overweight in my opinion. from the klms I have done on one, they were pretty damn hard to fault. The only criticism I had, was that they pushed the front a little too early. But a rear ride height adjustment cures that in about ten minutes :lol:

I still lurve riding them.

by **greenmeanie** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:58 pm

Strika wrote:As a road bike they are not really underpowered nor overweight in my opinion.

I agree strika.

Just quoting what i have read in numerous reviews over the years plus the bagging they get from people that don't understand how great kawasaki's are!!