Blue14 wrote:Blue is for girls you reckon hey ?? Says he who rides a marshmellow..
The new colors are average Marty, silver is the only pick of the bunch, and thats boring as.
Remember the 08 has the intake and head mods to eliminate the down low power issue, other than that nothing else different.
I have mine booked for after christmas to have the secondry flies removed and remapped, will be interesting to see the difference it makes.
If i were you and doing the amount of ridng and touring, i would go the GTR1400.. They may look awkward, but i have ridden one and i was bloody wrapped with it.. Will be a bike to consider if i was going to looking to upgrade.
I can imagine whatever I buy will end up with loads of kilometres on it, so simplicity is the key. Modern stuff has enough electronic gadgetry on it these days without complicating things with new technology. The GTR has a few new to Kawasaki things which to me are unkown and therefore worth keeping away from until they are proved bullet proof like most of Kawaski's stuff. If it was just a weekend bike, it could be powered by Hydrogen for all I care, but as a bike on which I intend to have to rely on getting me places in a certain time frame for work, then it is critical to have it as reliable as possible. The new Shaft set up (tetra wank whatever it is) is new to Kawasaki, untried in relative terms and could very well, as has the BMW System, have potential failures. They may not, but it's possible. So is that new Kpass ignition FOB thing, which a few guys on US forums have been stranded with. The third being Variable cam timing. Although the technology is not new, it's new to Kawasaki, so once again until a few years have passed i might stay away. Chains and sprockets are not that big a deal to me any more after my recently fantastic experiences with the reliability of BMW shaft systems
Plus, as it will be my ONLY road bike, I prolly need it to be a little lighter and more agile than the GTR and despite what JW may think, I still reckon a GTR just can't out handle a ZX14! Looking at them both in the flesh, the ZX looks to have it's guts a little higher than the GTR does. Even so, I think it will need a little tender love and care setting up the suspension to get it to turn how I like em!
As for colour, I am not all that fussed. As I said, I will look at LOW klm, Demo or new. Each of which has a choice of colours. Black is really great to look at when clean, but it only has to cloud over for black to look dirty and I'd rather spend my time riding it not washing it as in your good self!
I don't mind the silver in the pics, but not sure how it would look in the flesh. Although, there is a red one with 6K 2nd hand for sale which is advertised at $12,990!!!!!!
Cheap. I could forego 6,000Klms for $6,000!!!!!
There is also a demo advertised for 16k somewhere. I naturally will speak to some of our sponsors prior to placing an order anywhere I would think.
I also just want to leave it standard apart from getting it's arse of the ground. No pipes, but I may put a commander on it to remove the handbrake in the first four gears.
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me" Hunter S. Thompson.
There are really only two questions in life. 1.Which way do i go? 2.What is the lap record?
