Where is this Katana located?

[orangeback]

i was offered this Katana a couple years ago on trade me ,I didn't have the funds then.
I belive it is located in the North Shore in Auckland in a warehouse or on display in a jetski shop, can any body help with its wareabouts .
I belive the guys name is Chris and he's a SBK or AMA tech in the states , he brought this back with him from the US with some other tricked up bikes , I belive this was built for big HP shot out in the US , if anybody can help I'd be greatfull, as the number i have is no longer active, his brother may have it ???? as i know he's has a shead full of toys in Auckland with some one.
thanks

[kneescraper]

Sorry I dont know anything about the bike, awesome looking Katana though...got the same wheels as Rustys race ZXR400. Wonder what it would feel like hitting that nos button!

[Blondini]

Buy mine and paint it:yes:

[orangeback]

Buy mine and paint it:yes:

there is a few differances, and yours is a SE not a SZ , I had a SF as my first road bike at 17, Someone must know where it is sitting

[Roj]

there is a few differances, and yours is a SE not a SZ , I had a SF as my first road bike at 17, Someone must know where it is sitting

on a stand,

but seriously a nice bike, A guy I work with recenlty rebuilt his, spent about 6 K, looks mint.:scooter:

[avgas]

Yeh i remember that bike, was on trademe a while ago. lovely machine.
didnt it have over 200hp when the nos kicked in?

[F5 Dave]

Wheels are Astrolites. Seat & everything being the same grey looks ghey & it just seems a shame to wreck a bike like that for a few seconds of straight-line riding (& seemingly very little stopping).

[nudemetalz]

Katanas are best left original and unmolested, esp SXZ's !!!! :yes:

[T.W.R]

Katanas are best left original and unmolested, esp SXZ's !!!! :yes:

Amen to that! :yes:

Though a 180hp beast (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=20301&d=1132349921)
like this that keeps it's lines works well :yes:

Be interesting to know what the lost Kat did in times down the quarter though :yes:

[nudemetalz]

That Kat you just pictured, Bill, is rather nice. Looks like it could have been a continuing evolution that the factory might have done.

[F5 Dave]

Now that I would be happy with. My SZ was an ex proddie race 750 & was quite potent enough for a skinny 19yr old (that can't have been more than 4 or 5 yrs ago can it? erm . . . when was Blue Monday released? The first time. . .). But by the time I had sold it it was apparent that it could have done with some more chassis stiffness. 'Course better suspension would have helped mask that.

[daaatomic]

i'm afraid i can't help with the whereabouts of that katana, but if you ever find it, i would be REALLY keen to have a gawk at it.

[nudemetalz]

This is a Kat I would love to get...

[Katman]

This is the Kat I'd love to get - oops, silly me, I have already.:msn-wink:67377

[nudemetalz]

This is the Kat I'd love to get - oops, silly me, I have already.:msn-wink:67377

I always wonder whether your one is my Father's old one.
There weren't that many wire wheelers here in NZ.

Nice photo by the way. :)

[orangeback]

i was offered this Katana a couple years ago on trade me ,I didn't have the funds then.
I belive it is located in the North Shore in Auckland in a warehouse or on display in a jetski shop, can any body help with its wareabouts .
I belive the guys name is Chris and he's a SBK or AMA tech in the states , he brought this back with him from the US with some other tricked up bikes , I belive this was built for big HP shot out in the US , if anybody can help I'd be greatfull, as the number i have is no longer active, his brother may have it ???? as i know he's has a shead full of toys in Auckland with some one.
thanks

im still keen to find this bike .and know its in a sheed some where, with his brother
someone in auckland must have run across it

[roadracingoldfart]

Looks like the sort of thing Chris Mitchel would have , He was a tech tutor in Wgtn region and i heard he went to the States to take a dreamy job in AMA.
Dont know where he is now but not hard to find im sure. If it is Chris someone like Pat at Motomart may have contact with him.

[McDuck]

I want one. Or two.