Titanium!

aardvark · Post by **aardvark** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:32 pm

At least Kawasaki know how to make a decent looking bike in titanium.

http://www.mcnews.com.au/NewBikeCatalog ... tanium.htm

MickLC · Post by **MickLC** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:39 pm

Definitely not their best effort...the Kawasaki Titanium is much nicer

NovaCoder · Post by **NovaCoder** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:23 pm

It's not too bad, a little bit 'busy' perhaps and those stupid reflector things don't help.

I guess this must be the 2006 blade then, strange doesn't look much different to me

In AMCN today I saw a mock-up of a 2006 ZX10 with an under-seat pipe, looked pretty cool

Also of note (and completely unrelated), in the latest copy of PB from England they speed tested a stock ZX6R at 170 mph

Fastest ever for a 600 (well, ish), so pretty impressive stuff. It was also faster round the test-track than many bigger bikes (eg 999).

Another fast one was a (standard) 2005 R1 which scored a very impressive 187 mph top run.

Smitty · Post by **Smitty** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:36 pm

Mick C wrote:Definitely not their best effort...the Kawasaki Titanium is much nicer

Mick
I absolutely agree
the Kwaka Ti has...style, a look about it, class

that Hoooond version looks like a pencil drawing of a bike
.....I did at High School

samhasa636 · Post by **samhasa636** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:43 pm

Hooonda are going to need to do more than a paint job if they want better reviews in magazine shootouts... it doesn't seem to be doing very well this year.

Plaz · Post by **Plaz** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:52 pm

meh.......its ok I suppose.....No Kwaka though

HemiDuty · Post by **HemiDuty** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:14 am

They just always seem to be down on power and up on weight. I have heard many say "but they are the most ridable" and I think well ZZRs are ridable too, but they aint so quick. You're not buying the thing for a sport tourer for crap sake....

mrmina · Post by **mrmina** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:19 pm

thats really nice

Morden · Post by **Morden** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:45 pm

*shrug*

looks like a yammy. Bloody Jap bikes, there all the same :p

*ducks*

aardvark · Post by **aardvark** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 2:23 pm

Morden wrote:*shrug*

looks like a yammy. Bloody Jap bikes, there all the same :p

*ducks*

Unlike a certain British brand, that doesn't look like anything else on the market, yet you know when one has been in your driveway because of all the oil it has left behind.

hammer · Post by **hammer** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 6:07 pm

HemiDuty wrote:They just always seem to be down on power and up on weight. I have heard many say "but they are the most ridable" and I think well ZZRs are ridable too, but they aint so quick. You're not buying the thing for a sport tourer for crap sake....

Take a few litre bikes for a run around a race track and easy to ride is not a bad thing you will find. Most ppl would do faster lap times on something that easier to ride anyways.
Vermeulen seemed to do alright on a stock one also when they were first realeased.

HemiDuty · Post by **HemiDuty** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 1:56 am

Yeah I know what you are saying Hammer, but most of the time when the mags do lap time shootouts, the Hondas are slowest in class. I guess the testers are usually pretty full on riders though....

hammer · Post by **hammer** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:00 am

Yep there are and the times are always so close between all of the top four there is really nothin in it.
Like the zx12 and the hirebus, the top speed of the bus is about 2kph faster than the 12 and ppl make out thats a big thing. Its all BS.
As I have said before it comes down to the rider more than the bikes nowdays.

Neka79 · Post by **Neka79** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:32 am

HemiDuty wrote:. I guess the testers are usually pretty full on riders though....

yea there ussually pretty good...unlike this vermuelan guy whop took out 2nd in SBK in its first yr, actually finishing in front of 999 dukes that had been running around for abt 3 yrs already ...

Gnome · Post by **Gnome** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:19 am

hammer wrote:As I have said before it comes down to the rider more than the bikes nowdays.

I'll second that.

Strap-on