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This was my ELR i restored in the uk some jap bussiness man bought it for his son and shipped it back to japan




i cant beleive i sold it for what i did another bike i should have brought here

20/20 hindsight isn't it!! Welcome by the way. If we had crystal balls, we'd have trouble running.

Nice bike! Looks like ZRX rear shocks.

bonester wrote:Nice bike! Looks like ZRX rear shocks.

Dont know what they got in pommy land, but here we got showa piggybacks, in gold, but then we didnt get the 1100 either...

mmmmm very nice!!! reminds me of the 1100 we had!

were the 1100r sold here or was it just the 1000r

think we only got the 1000R here mate. Bike looks nice. You miss your old bikes don't you ?

born green wrote:

bonester wrote:Nice bike! Looks like ZRX rear shocks.

Dont know what they got in pommy land, but here we got showa piggybacks, in gold, but then we didnt get the 1100 either...

yep that had the gold showa shocks to but even after the rebuild the zrx ones where a better set of shocks

the showa ones where boxed up still like new and sold with the bike

Gosling1 wrote:think we only got the 1000R here mate. Bike looks nice. You miss your old bikes don't you ?

Yep, the 1000 is what we got, the kiwi's got the 1100 tho...

paintman wrote:

born green wrote:

bonester wrote:Nice bike! Looks like ZRX rear shocks.

Dont know what they got in pommy land, but here we got showa piggybacks, in gold, but then we didnt get the 1100 either...

yep that had the gold showa shocks to but even after the rebuild the zrx ones where a better set of shocks

the showa ones where boxed up still like new and sold with the bike

I had a tricked up one a few years ago... one of the things i had done was the showa's, had them redone by dave at krooz tune.

Gosling1 wrote:think we only got the 1000R here mate. Bike looks nice. You miss your old bikes don't you ?

Pretty sure the 1100 was the 84 model, and I'm with you Gos. Not an official import anyway The early 1000's we got here were not the same as the omes in the UK and USA either. Ours were essentially a Z1000J with a bikini fairing and a paint job. Pretty sure Ken - RIP mate - says that in one of his many stories about the ZRX that contained a bit of "background".

Found this on a quick search of the interweb thingy........ "Why? Because in 1981 American Eddie Lawson won the US Superbike Championship on a KZ1000J (known in Australia as the Z1000J), and that inspired Kawasaki to come out with a roadbike version for 1982, based on Eddie's winning steed. Well, cosmetically at least.

The Eddie Lawson Replica roadbike was in essence an optioned-up KZ1000J, with lime-green paintwork. Only 750 ridgey-didge '82 Lawson replica roadbikes were ever produced, and these days they fetch big bucks.

The model finally made it Down Under in 1983, but by then my piggybank was empty again"

Phil wrote:

Gosling1 wrote:think we only got the 1000R here mate. Bike looks nice. You miss your old bikes don't you ?

Pretty sure the 1100 was the 84 model, and I'm with you Gos. Not an official import anyway The early 1000's we got here were not the same as the omes in the UK and USA either. Ours were essentially a Z1000J with a bikini fairing and a paint job. Pretty sure Ken - RIP mate - says that in one of his many stories about the ZRX that contained a bit of "background".

Found this on a quick search of the interweb thingy........ "Why? Because in 1981 American Eddie Lawson won the US Superbike Championship on a KZ1000J (known in Australia as the Z1000J), and that inspired Kawasaki to come out with a roadbike version for 1982, based on Eddie's winning steed. Well, cosmetically at least.

The Eddie Lawson Replica roadbike was in essence an optioned-up KZ1000J, with lime-green paintwork. Only 750 ridgey-didge '82 Lawson replica roadbikes were ever produced, and these days they fetch big bucks.

The model finally made it Down Under in 1983, but by then my piggybank was empty again"

Ken nixson from brighton kawasaki once told me the number that came to australia, he got 2 to sell, he kept one for himself
I got one off him in 97, it had been crashed and he bought it back to rebuild, but never got around to it..
Got some photo's of it during its rebuild, but havent got around to working out how to post up
Have to get marty to take some photo's of my photo's one day and post up... it was a nice bike..
GRXR wheels, brakes, big one off fork brace, steering damper, 530 chain, big kitted engine, and a heap of other stuff, built it myself in a tiny shed in ST KILDA when i moved from brissy, it was a total ground up rebuild..