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Keeper
11th January 2006, 09:58
Anyone else looking at the ZX14 when it hits the market this year? Comes with factory hard point for hard panniers, the claimed 200hp at the rear will make it interesteding, and there are companies apparently already planning to release turbo kits for them...

I'm thinking a ZX14 with turbo and hard panniers will make a nice tourer for me...
hXc
11th January 2006, 09:59
They look bloody ugly though!
bugjuice
11th January 2006, 10:07
reckon it'll give the busa a run for it's money.. i'd be keen to see one first hand, but it still looks a bit over weight. I bet someone bores it out to 1800 and turbos it before mid-year..

Anyone thinking about an 06 ZX10?
cowpoos
11th January 2006, 10:09
http://www.kawasaki.co.nz/kawasaki_custom.cfm?modelcode=ZX1400A6F&do=list


cheap for what it is....f ing cheap
cowpoos
11th January 2006, 10:15
Anyone thinking about an 06 ZX10?

that was what I was going to buy....but after riding the 04-05....what the fuck was I gunna do with a 170kmph first gear !!!!! but I love everything about the zx10r...majorly awesome and thrilling bike...not the easyest bike to ride fast so not really a newbie or timid persons ride...but it was easy to ride with comitment...front end was the best I've ever felt !!
Postie
11th January 2006, 10:44
Anyone thinking about an 06 ZX10?

was thinking about it, there just too slow though.....
bugjuice
11th January 2006, 11:05
could always turbo (http://www.muzzys.com/ZX10/ZX10_Turbo/) it..
depends on how much you like living I guess
Coyote
11th January 2006, 11:11
could always turbo (http://www.muzzys.com/ZX10/ZX10_Turbo/) it..
depends on how much you like living I guess
I know what I'll be getting when I'm 18 now
bugjuice
11th January 2006, 11:22
could always just throw yourself off a building if you have a death wish.. cheaper
Coyote
11th January 2006, 11:23
could always just throw yourself off a building if you have a death wish.. cheaper
Afraid of heights
Posh Tourer :P
11th January 2006, 11:24
i'd be keen to see one first hand, but it still looks a bit over weight.

They look not so bad in the flesh. Kinda like a Busa but nicer looking - just as bulbous....

Think Busa looking size + blackbird-ish lines. Saw one at the NEC show in November
N4CR
11th January 2006, 11:27
Yep. 3 Infact and one for my 6 year old cousin.

Hell... everyone needs one! I'll shout the lot of you bastardised rascals!
When I win lotto

I told yoshi to get one as he has just sold his gixxah, but no - he has to fix his boat or something. So who will be the first person to get one eh :shifty:
Lou Girardin
11th January 2006, 11:41
So if you're pinged for twice the 'walking speed' (280 k's) are you off the road for twice as long?
Sniper
11th January 2006, 11:45
Nope, wouldn't touch one. I was under the impression that there is a zx14 in nelson
Keeper
11th January 2006, 13:55
It does seam all the shots on the Kawi site make it look fugly, but this one is good...

There is a twin turbo ZX10 out there, and the same guy turbo'd a ZX6R of the 03/03 year,
Posh Tourer :P
11th January 2006, 13:56
ok when i saw it, the headlights were ugly. The rest aint bad....
Keeper
11th January 2006, 14:01
when the yanks turbo their bikes they always stick a pod ouot the side of the fairings, im thinking that can't be good if it rains, im hoping the kits for the zx14 will use the standard intake duct, just re-routed
bugjuice
11th January 2006, 14:04
well it's just where the turbo sits. Personally, I would have thought that something like the Kawas with the big air duct right in the front, you'd route the intake off that. But may be that's too much air? It'd make it look more 'standard' that way anyway.
Postie
11th January 2006, 14:16
ok when i saw it, the headlights were ugly. The rest aint bad....
all you need to worry about is how the rear end looks as it dissapears into the distance.........
Sniper
11th January 2006, 14:20
I wonder if the actual physical size of the bike is much bigger than the busa. Could someone shed some light?
bugjuice
11th January 2006, 14:21
yeah, there's a switch on the handle bars which puts on some lights.. The rider does it
Postie
11th January 2006, 14:21
I wonder if the actual physical size of the bike is much bigger than the busa. Could someone shed some light?
i could shed some skin!!!
zadok
11th January 2006, 14:26
Check out the GTR1400 thread here somewhere (Do a search). That is basically what you are talking about.
miSTa
11th January 2006, 16:13
I wonder if the actual physical size of the bike is much bigger than the busa. Could someone shed some light?

It's the same size as the ZZR1200 and ZZR1100, ergonomics are exactly the same as the 12 (I posted a link a while back that illustrated the ergos). Just the headlights make it look wider.

IIRC the weight numbers I've seen have it around 210kg - 20+kg less than my beastie

I have a load of photos of at work (had a mate who went to the Milan bike show), unfortunately I cannot share as I don't go back to work until the 23rd :banana: :banana:

Would I buy one this year? No.
Hitcher
11th January 2006, 19:32
It's a shame about the excessively leany-forward riding position for the new ZZR1400. However some modified clip-ons and a new screen could make it a more pleasant riding tourer. Apart from the ER6 series and the Mean Streak, Kawasaki-san is doing little to tempt me back to the fold (although that ZRX1200R is still a seriously horny ride). Senor Guzzi, on the other hand...
skelstar
11th January 2006, 20:53
Assuming that you are replacing your banged up bike, are you thinking of straying from the ST1300 Hitch?
pritch
11th January 2006, 21:27
Anyone else looking at the ZX14 when it hits the market this year?

Ummm is that what I would call the ZZR1400?
Don't know about a zx14.
Mind you there are a lotta things I don't know about.
Then again that pic sure does look like a ZZR...
miSTa
12th January 2006, 06:12
ZZR1400 - ZX14 are the same thing, we don' know just what to call it. Even Kawasaki are using both terms :argh:

When the bike was first announced it was thought that it would be ZX for the USA and ZZR for the rest of world (as for the 1100's, the 1200 was ZZR for the whole world), but that seems to be not the case.

In my mind though it is a ZZR as it the same type of bike as the 1100 and 1200s, and quite different to the 6/9/10/12R family.
Hitcher
12th January 2006, 07:40
Assuming that you are replacing your banged up bike, are you thinking of straying from the ST1300 Hitch?
Possibly. I may stay with the ST but go for an electric screen model.
Hitcher
12th January 2006, 07:42
In my mind though it is a ZZR as it the same type of bike as the 1100 and 1200s, and quite different to the 6/9/10/12R family.
And in my mind too. However it appears that Kawasaki New Zealand has decided that this beast shall be a ZX, rather than a ZZR.