Best looking Katana in the World

[flyingcrocodile46]

Arguably the best looking bike................. Period.:yes:

Soon to be on display at the Leguna GP as the Suzuki display no 1 bike..

Also to appear on the cover of the 'Fast Dates' calander in the States.

Made by a Kiwi (nephew of Graeme Crosby) who works for motogpwerks.


Pictures off a kat i was building and just finshed this week....it was a wes cooley yoshimura katana blue and white. Im a former Yoshimura engineer and former Morkiwaki and redbull yamaha and started my career with John Britten ....and my uncle is Graeme Crosby! I have many gs's including finshing this Kat that will be featured on the Suzuki stand at laguna Seca at motogp......

here it is without its clothes....it has $40,000 worth traction control,data,suspension plots,G meter and so on off yamaha motogp bike,every bolt is TI beside's one bolt that i ran out off time to make,yoshi frame,dry clutch (customer) yoshi limited motor,monoblocks brembo's (ysr 500 front end) with a 'Rossi master and so on........also here is the pipes i just finshed for a guy in england (gs1000s) Note: $ quoted are US$.





213330213329213328http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/images/misc/pencil.png

[Big Dave]

Arguably the best looking bike Period.:yes:



Not. Period. :-P

[Crasherfromwayback]

Bettera ones here...

http://www.ac-sanctuary.co.jp/index.html

[flyingcrocodile46]

Not. Period. :-P

Fixed thanks :)

[Katman]

Does nothing for me.

[Lurch]

Retro, but not that pretty.

[onearmedbandit]

Yeah I can admire all the trick bits and engineering, but the overall look doesn't run with me.

[jack_hamma]

http://twistingasphalt.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/rolandsandshyper.jpg


better :)

[slowpoke]

Me likey! Being picky, the red anodised engine bolts are a bling too far, and I'm not a huge fan of the 'zorst, but overall I'd be happy as a pig in poo if that was parked in my shed.

[AllanB]

Not on my favorites list sorry, in fact a small bit of warm puke came up my throat when I saw the homo-blue paint (is that an official Suzuki colour name?).

It was lucky there was more interesting images behind the bike to distract me .....

For my personal tastes I have seen better applications of custom Katanas.

Doing a quick Google - there appear to be way too many Katanas repainted in vile colours! I blame America.

[cs363]

Yeah....nah!



http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yeah%20nah (see definition #1)

And yes, I think that is homo pastel blue (to give it's correct name) Allan! :D

[PrincessBandit]

Not on my favorites list sorry, in fact a small bit of warm puke came up my throat when I saw the homo-blue paint (is that an official Suzuki colour name?).


Hey, that blue is similar to my jacket! maybe I'd look cool on it with my blue jacket and powder blue helmet. Would I look gay though?

[2wheeldrifter]

Hey, that blue is similar to my jacket! maybe I'd look cool on it with my blue jacket and powder blue helmet. Would I look gay though?

Yeah you could pull it off....:yes: a guy would just look a right poofter! :shit:


thinkin about it, maybe a Honda guy could pull it off too...?? :)

[piston broke]

best looking?katana.
oxymoron at it's best.
p.s joking

[crazyhorse]

Not tops on my favourite list - but its still a Suzuki, so thats all that counts :niceone:

[roadracingoldfart]

Yeah I can admire all the trick bits and engineering, but the overall look doesn't run with me.

Yip , gotta agree with that.

[KiwiGs]

It is a toss up between that and the Yosh Kat
http://www.yoshimura-jp.com/english/complete/katana/katana_1.jpg
I think the Yosh Kat has better proportions, if the cooley coloured one had a slightly longer swinger it would be about perfect.....

[flyingcrocodile46]

It is a toss up between that and the Yosh Kat
http://www.yoshimura-jp.com/english/complete/katana/katana_1.jpg
I think the Yosh Kat has better proportions, if the cooley coloured one had a slightly longer swinger it would be about perfect.....

Yeah! you're right about t swing arm.

I forgot to mention that it has a dry clutch (you prolly saw it on GSR)

[98tls]

Nice work indeed though for my money an early 900SS wins in the looks dept.Wouldnt say no to that though.

[Hacking]

amazing bike,i saw it myself when i was in L.A in Feb as i was at RG3 suspension (also kiwis).I use to do suspension,katana's don't go around corners anyway i think due to the front end change and it looks like 17's they must have decided to go with a shorter swingarm to fix any handling problems. Maybe you guys shouldn't bitch too much.Only one Yoshimura katana was ever built due to that they were $75,000 us
Anyway I'm a kawasaki zx7rrr fan!

[AD345]

As a ormer Katana owner let me just say this:

If it's not silver

it's shit



TYVM

[98tls]

As a ormer Katana owner let me just say this:

If it's not silver

it's shit



TYVM

Ironic really considering some of the colours Victory have given birth to,the menstrual red springs to mind mate.:blink:(couldnt help myself).:shutup:Look at the lambshit yellow of my old girl.

[dipshit]

Yuck. :sick:

Now this is a nice kat...

http://i930.photobucket.com/albums/ad145/gsxr-tony/kittykatpipe.jpg

[AD345]

Now this is a nice kat...

http://i930.photobucket.com/albums/ad145/gsxr-tony/kittykatpipe.jpg

Well at least it's silver(ish)

But WTF happened to the back of it??

[AD345]

Ironic really considering some of the colours Victory have given birth to,the menstrual red springs to mind mate.:blink:(couldnt help myself).:shutup:Look at the lambshit yellow of my old girl.

I take no responsibility for what the cousin-cuddlers of the southern isle may be doing with their Vics but the colours up this way are pretty gosh darned fantabulous

[T.W.R]

Here's a couple of very nice examples.

1) Full Yoshi internals in the topend, MTC brass plate drag clutch, NOS, Akront rims etc etc
2) 1327cc Arias bigblock, APE/Barnett clutch, undercut gears, Mikuni RS40-D7 carbs, GSX-R bits etc etc