Here's one for us old fellas to drool over...

**98tls** · 25th October 2006, 15:47

Flicking through Trade me i came across this old beast.....be nice to tuck away in the garage for sunny sundays eh....

**HenryDorsetCase** · 25th October 2006, 16:04

cool. difficult to ride I would think, but cool

were you one of the many following the CBX that went for $11900? I thought that was reasonable money to be honest.

**JimO** · 25th October 2006, 16:21

Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase

cool. difficult to ride I would think, but cool

were you one of the many following the CBX that went for $11900? I thought that was reasonable money to be honest.

especially when the brakes dont work in the wet and the frame is made out of sponge rubber

**xwhatsit** · 25th October 2006, 16:31

That is so damned sweet. I want one. I imagine I would sound less stupid for wanting one if I actually knew what it was? What model is it?

I'm not an `old fella' but I love older bikes. I just don't happen to know much of anything about any bikes yet lol.

Beautiful.

EDIT: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...p-29166783.htm
1979 Kawasaki Z1RTC
Why do I want it even if I don't understand it? Lol.

**Dadpole** · 25th October 2006, 17:42

And in the drawer beside the PC is a Cycle mag from November 1975 with ...

**Dadpole** · 25th October 2006, 17:46

...and the final two pages. sorry about the large file sizes, but I tried to keep the pages as legible as possible.

**crack** · 25th October 2006, 18:27

There Lies a Truely Sexy Beast.

"Old age and Treachary will overcome youth and skill"

**slimjim** · 25th October 2006, 18:31

well still think thee Rd 350 was one i first loved for sheer thrill of power and speed,then meet a norton with megaphones,, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah another love affair

**Crasherfromwayback** · 25th October 2006, 19:01

Originally Posted by 98tls

Flicking through Trade me i came across this old beast.....be nice to tuck away in the garage for sunny sundays eh....

Stop it you mean C*nt!
Out of the 50 or so bikes I've owned, my Z1R TC is the ONLY bike I regret to this day selling!! Took it with me to Australia and sold it there. They didn't get them and I was told I was full of shit when I mentioned to my local Kawasaki dealership I had one......"The only turbo bike Kawasaki has ever built mate was the ZX750E1 & 2...." and while they were actually built by American Turbo Pak...they were actually an official Kawasaki, complete with a manual printed by KHI. If anyone here buys it....I have a lot of information (and even the original sales brochure) for one!

**terbang** · 25th October 2006, 19:01

Amazing how things have changed over the years. My older cousin purchased a Z1 in 1975 (fuck that is 31 years ago). At age 15, riding an RD350 myself, I remember drooling over it and trying to imagine what it would be like to ride a bike that had so much HP (all 84 of them) and it handled so well. It seemed to go around corners like it was on rails..! Alas I couldn't afford one. The closest I got to such technology was the smaller brother, the H2 750, a vicious 3 cylinder 2 stroker that managed to chuck me off in a fairly spectacular fashion. To this day my older cousin remains canonised, well in my head anyway, for his exploits of "dragging off cops" (the old MOT boys in HQ Holdens) on that beautiful machine. He binned it, spent some time in hospital and has never ridden a bike since. He turned 50 recently..

My "Old Yella" (82 GSX 1100), a bike I still enjoy today in a quieter way, was a quantum leap on the venerable Z1 though it is not a patch on any of the modern machinery you can get off the shop floor today.

**Crasherfromwayback** · 25th October 2006, 19:08

Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase

cool. difficult to ride I would think, but cool

I ended up with 185 rear wheel HP with mine....could run up to 20lbs boost on pump gas with the help of water/methanol injection. Had to install WELL oversized cyl studs as it used to lift the head off due to the stock ones stretching under big boost and blowing even solid copper head gskts ('o' ringed at that) out of it like frisbees!. The fucking thing used to bend in half so badly with that sort of output that it used to change lanes for you when you were game enough to pull the pin!!

I want it back!!!

**beyond** · 25th October 2006, 20:27

I still remember my old RD350

Fastest bike one could buy when they first came out and they handled pretty darned good too, in their day of course.

Managed to get 112 mph (180kmh) out of her on the Takanini straight with my face buried between the dials. That was fast then, but at that speed I still have some gears left today and 180kmh does not seem fast at all anymore. Things have come along way alright.

**TLDV8** · 25th October 2006, 22:03

Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase

were you one of the many following the CBX that went for $11900? I thought that was reasonable money to be honest.

An excellent handing motorcycle,turbine smooth to well over 200 kmh..ET's in the 11's...Effortless tourer and scratcher....Owning one at 23 years old,priceless.