23 km in 23 years!!!!

[kneescraper]

Hope this isnt a repost...

This Kawaka has covered just 23kms...yes 23 in 23 years. Awesome looking bike too.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Motorbikes/Motorbikes/Classic-vintage/auction-108495076.htm?p=20

[Boob Johnson]

Wow, thats a rare find :shit:


Gotta wonder about all the seals, gasket etc

[riffer]

Not to mention the tyres and petrol... :mellow:

[98tls]

As nice as it is it really only has novelty value i guess,23 kms is cool but riding it will lose that,it wasnt a bike of any note way back so it will be a long long time before it has any real value as a classic.

[Disco Dan]

Speedo has been wound back by the looks.... :yes: when wound back the numbers dont line up properly - look at the '0's they should not even be out of line but they are....

Im a 'westy' remember... thats the sort of stuff they teach ya in school ;)

[Sanx]

And it's advertised as a 1977/1978 so it's 29/30 years, not 23 :bleh:

[kneescraper]

Speedo has been wound back by the looks.... :yes: when wound back the numbers dont line up properly - look at the '0's they should not even be out of line but they are....

Im a 'westy' remember... thats the sort of stuff they teach ya in school ;)


Are you sure this is correct, Ive worked on many new cars....NZ new cars straight from the showroom and I've noticed that their KM digits dont always line up?

[Disco Dan]

Are you sure this is correct, Ive worked on many new cars....NZ new cars straight from the showroom and I've noticed that their KM digits dont always line up?

When you wind them back they are normally done pretty quick (ie with an electric drill) but when they go forward it is normally slow (day to day use) and the numbers catch correctly.

New cars usually have digital speedometers now dont they? :innocent:

[kneescraper]

Not the utes that I work on....maybe they are selling old utes as new...this is Gisborne after all :)

[bert_is_evil]

May not be wound back, could have been disconnected - my dad rigged the odometer on his diesel so the only numbers that clicked over were the first two rows, that way if he got stopped by the fuzz it still appeared to be working but never actually increased the k's on the clock - makes road tax cheap as chips.

[Sanx]

May not be wound back, could have been disconnected - my dad rigged the odometer on his diesel so the only numbers that clicked over were the first two rows, that way if he got stopped by the fuzz it still appeared to be working but never actually increased the k's on the clock - makes road tax cheap as chips.


Be a bugger if he got stopped when the last two digits were '99'.

[bert_is_evil]

True. Needless to say my mother was not impressed.

[Toaster]

Hmmm.... and while he dodges taxes and gets richer for it, the rest of us honest people end up paying ours to make up the shortfall... if everyone paid their fair share, we may all have a slightly lower tax burden across all of us.

Very selfish attitude.

[PeteJ]

Yeah, the Z200 had and has nothing going for it but for boring predictability and reliability. Buy it, and it'll do no more than 23km for the next millennium, too.

[bert_is_evil]

Hmmm.... and while he dodges taxes and gets richer for it, the rest of us honest people end up paying ours to make up the shortfall... if everyone paid their fair share, we may all have a slightly lower tax burden across all of us.

Very selfish attitude.

I would pass your comments on to him but he died, I'm sure he's in hell now for not paying a few k's worth of road tax. Nice to know there are people out there such as yourself that are beyond reproach though.

[Toaster]

I would pass your comments on to him but he died, I'm sure he's in hell now for not paying a few k's worth of road tax. Nice to know there are people out there such as yourself that are beyond reproach though.

never said that mate.... I just do things by the law and pay my share, keeping in mind we all share this country and need to contribute to it.

[bert_is_evil]

There are a considerable amount of people out there contributing more than their fair share in taxes though - superanuants. People who have payed tax on their income, saved, then pay tax on it again when they retire. A few dollars worth of road tax for a pensioner to drive to the shops a few times a week would have come no where near offsetting the amount of supertax he was paying.

[shafty]

When you wind them back they are normally done pretty quick (ie with an electric drill) but when they go forward it is normally slow (day to day use) and the numbers catch correctly.

New cars usually have digital speedometers now dont they? :innocent:

Have you tried rewinding a speedo with an electric drill? or is it based on theory? My one experience proved it impractical to use this method.

[ZeroIndex]

What a load of crap... did he buy it in '78 for like $3k, ride it home from the dealership, and then think:

"HEY!!! What I'll do, is drain the fuel, throw away the battery, put a cover over it for the next 20 or so years, and then when the internet has been made and they've invented online auctions, i'll see if I can get my money back on the bike... that'll be a story for the grandchildren..."

[Slicksta]

What a load of crap... did he buy it in '78 for like $3k, ride it home from the dealership, and then think:

"HEY!!! What I'll do, is drain the fuel, throw away the battery, put a cover over it for the next 20 or so years, and then when the internet has been made and they've invented online auctions, i'll see if I can get my money back on the bike... that'll be a story for the grandchildren..."

HAHAHA nice
i don't know if its genuine but it looks like it is in really good condition...
but you have a point there it def seems fishy

[Brett]

never said that mate.... I just do things by the law and pay my share, keeping in mind we all share this country and need to contribute to it.

I hear your sentiment, but this current money stealing government for one seem to have no scruples stealing every cent possible, then there is the local constabulary who seem to be on a permanent revenue gathering stake out, local bodies and their rate hikes, ACC who rape me every night in my dreams...I could go on.

No sir, they get enough from me! However, do agree with the sentiment that everyone needs to chip in for the wheels to keep turning...

[kneescraper]

What a load of crap... did he buy it in '78 for like $3k, ride it home from the dealership, and then think:

"HEY!!! What I'll do, is drain the fuel, throw away the battery, put a cover over it for the next 20 or so years, and then when the internet has been made and they've invented online auctions, i'll see if I can get my money back on the bike... that'll be a story for the grandchildren..."


Or he bought the bike, got it home...thought he would keep it as a collectors item thinking it would gain value. Or an even more stupid idea...a Kawasaki nut bought it, put it into his garage with his other mint, low KM Kawasakis...starting it up every now and again and polishing it.

Some people do that ya know....thats how we get mint collector bikes.