Performance Bikes (Kwakka Edition)

[zxrarron]

farken scratchie i got the same thing too. won a car and money u are jokin. i bet everyone was a winner?

[javaman]

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.

Whatif after winning the scratchie you jump to the first plane to UK?

[spekt-r]

Javaman, you have to be a resident.

[redzedx7r]

finally got my copy....mmm yer gpz750 turbo & kr1s, i would have picked the zzr600 ahead of the zx6r for there top 10. On the basis of innovation the zzr600 was the first in the class with 100hp donk and the first with aluminium frame.
what about the current zx636r, zxr1100/1200?
i agree about the gpz900r, i remember reading about it in yr12 when it was the first road bike tested in Australia to hit 250kph.
Seanzx7r

[YAPPA]

yeah, my 6 made the list, but no 95/96 zx9r? didn,t it hold the title of worlds fastest mass production bike 4 a while there

[Barrabob]

me too won a bmw the other night but i am still reading decembers mags so the competition is closed.I have a mate whos daughter is a pommy resident so if i get any in date ducatis i will be posting it to her in a flash but i think if you get the 3 cars it entitles you to enter a draw to win it.

[Damon Z1000]

I'm an English citizen!
Give me all your cards and I'll get the next plane over and collect your prizes for you.
MMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmm lots of X5's and BM's, mmmmm new country home in The Forest of Dean.
Yes, no problem whatsoever, I'll get onto Quantas right now.



NOT.
I ain't going back there, it's too wet and too farken cold.
Sorry boys.

[I-K]

i would have picked the zzr600 ahead of the zx6r for there top 10.

The ZZ-R-D, the first model, was mostly a GPz600R with an aluminium frame. Not enough of a leap compared to its predecessor despite having a redline 2,000rpm higher than the competition. It needed all that extra top-end to get past the more compact FZR.

what about the current zx636r,

Counts as a ZX6, which is already included... besides, being honest, you'd have to say that the ZX-636R-B's claim to glory is that it's the bike with which Kawasaki caught up... by the time it came out, Yamaha had been doing the sit-on-it-and-it-disappears 600 for four years.

zxr1100/1200?

Again, it didn't break any real new ground... Suzuki got people thinking with an old-school big-bore engine in a double-cradle steel tube frame with a chunky seat four years before the ZRX1100 first hit.

To my mind, they've got the list pretty spot-on insofar as what's on there, as all the bikes on it either took performance motorcycling in a whole new direction (GPz900R-first liquid cooled big bore with handling, brakes and styling, GPz600R-first sports 600) or, as is more Kawasaki's style, took an existing concept and showed everyone how to do it properly... the ZXR750 had RC30 style at a GSX-R750 price. The ZZ-R1100 split the too-bulky-to-be-sportsbikes FZR1000 and GSX-R1100 and the the-bigger-it-is-the-less-hard-you-have-to-try CBR1000 and used sledgehammer horsepower for its true purpose-firing at the horizon. The ZX-6R stopped the tippietoeing around the edges of race-derived technology the 600 class had been doing up until then and went all-out with a super-compact motor, fully-adjustable suspension, an alloy-beam frame...

[Nanna10r]

Insightful Shit I-K, n i pretty much agree with the list as well, maybe not the order so much the Z1 still did more for bike design then the GPz9 . Just another question though ..... Never mind after re reading the article i got the 2 answers i wanted which were why was the ZZ-R1100 there as opposed to the GPz1100B2 n why didnt the Ram air technology get a rap. The answer is it did get a rap n thats why the ZZ-R1100 is there.
Also interesting to note on the test of the 7 new Kwika models from last year they picked the ZRX1200 as the bike they'd have parked in their shed. Its an updated GPZ1100B1 from 1982 or something .... Jezas Journos n Politicians way to go Soft Cok fellas.
Cheers Brett

[Plaz]

I think the list is spot on. Personally I had the '90 ZZr 600 (best paint job ever!!!) and it was maybe a little more than an "upped" GPz 600, low sleek fast and you sat in it not on it.......but what the hell were they thinking when they came up with those flashing fuel warning lights!!!!

Also had (until recently getting the 636) a ZXR 750 J1 (the blue one) that bike set the ebnch mark to be followed for years, pity the suspension rendered most males sterile on the first bump they hit, but if I could have I would have kept the ZXR750 as well.

[Phil]

Also had (until recently getting the 636) a ZXR 750 J1 (the blue one) that bike set the ebnch mark to be followed for years,

ooooh yeah, one of MY favorite kawasaki's ever.........

[Blackzxr]

That reminds me, i bought my copy last Thursady and i haven't read it. Doh, i think it's at work still. Going for a look, now.

[Plaz]

ARRGGHH don't say the w-o-r-k word, I'm on six weeks worht of holi's and that word makes my ears hurt.

[YAPPA]

ARRGGHH don't say the w-o-r-k word, I'm on six weeks worht of holi's and that word makes my ears hurt.

U BARSTARD

[plane]

I reckon the list was pretty much spot on. Each of the machines they listed were pretty much ground breaking in some way, shape or form.
Cheers,
Pete.

P.S. I liked the way they all enjoyed the ZRX!!