as requested kat pics

[betti]

a couple of pics, for those who are interested, c ya out there soon!!
cheerz
Betti

[gav]

SWeet!!! Going to tell us about it? Whats with the lack of riding gear :confused:

[Ms Piggy]

:niceone: Very niiiiiiiiiiice mate.

[inlinefour]

but that is one nice bike :niceone:

[Krusti]

Ditto.....awesome...:niceone:

[bungbung]

Hey Betti, that is really nice. Have you got it on the road now?

[moko]

Nice one mate,they`re very popular over here with Classic Jap fans.Were they imported into N.Z? Most lusted after Kat was the 750 with the pop-up headlight.any of you guys want something a bit newer that looks just as good they bought out a 400 retro look-alike in the 90`s with the GSXR motor for the Jap market,I nearly bought one a few years back.

[vifferman]

Very nice, kat. :niceone:

Those Katanas are such kewl bikes.

[F5 Dave]

Nice one mate,they`re very popular over here with Classic Jap fans.Were they imported into N.Z? Most lusted after Kat was the 750 with the pop-up headlight.any of you guys want something a bit newer that looks just as good they bought out a 400 retro look-alike in the 90`s with the GSXR motor for the Jap market,I nearly bought one a few years back.
You are kidding right? The 750 pop ups weren’t real Katanas. They had the poxy 16” front wheel & were slower than the previous S models + looked like an extra from Battlestar Galactica. (spot the original Kat ex owner).

The most lusted ones were the wire wheel & more rare black pipe models which were imported for racing.

Nice bike, pic a bit far away to tell, looks like an R motor?

[moko]

You are kidding right? The 750 pop ups weren’t real Katanas.

Looks pretty good to me

http://www.geocities.com/katana_pheonix/Katana_750_Chris.jpg

[F5 Dave]

That's not a pop up. Twin shocks. Check, round tube frame, check, silver motor, check. & the dead give away no pop up headlight.

Something is weird with the front wheel & esp. the tailpiece, def not std to either model.

[F5 Dave]

This is a pop up

[betti]

okey dokey, its a gsxr1100g/h oil cooled motor, stage three tuned with factory jet kit, bsr oil cooler with braided hoses and black anodised fittings.
Monoshocked by myself and Derek at A.P.E. 7/11 Uk, using a gsxr1100ws swing arm and bandit 1200 5.5.inch rear wheel, front end is a 1992 gsxr1100m usd affair, with nissin four pot calipers gripping braking wave discs.
it runs a gsxr 1100g/h/kat hybrid loom, with led tail lights mounted under the gsx1100et tail piece.
Seat has been cut down and recovered by bumwraps in the Uk. It had an iridium screen but the shippers broke it so another is on order!! :angry2:
Aluminium undertray, polished and fitted with uv. all fasteners stainless , casings and various bits polished , gsxr battery standard katana bodywork, fairing modified to take the usd forks, and fork extensions holding gsxr clip on bars.
gsxr switchgear, rizoma fluid reservoirs, braided brake lines by HEL, Nz stamped and legal!!.
Paint is silver rainbows by rage extreme. multi coloured flip in sunlight , katana silver grey as standard.
Bridgestone battlax front and rear.
All bracketry, by APE711, re-worked rear brake kat/gsxr hybrid, footrest mounts gsx1100efe, painted and polished.
Thats about it I reckon, nine months to build all in
The lack of ridin gear was for a magazine shoot on private roads at very low speed(dont try this at home kids!)
If you need owt else let me know, i'll happily waffle on about it for hours on end!! :2thumbsup

[Krusti]

You are kidding right? The 750 pop ups weren’t real Katanas. They had the poxy 16” front wheel & were slower than the previous S models + looked like an extra from Battlestar Galactica. (spot the original Kat ex owner).

The most lusted ones were the wire wheel & more rare black pipe models which were imported for racing.

Nice bike, pic a bit far away to tell, looks like an R motor?

Yeah....I have allways been led to believe that it was the 1100 wire wheel model that was THE Katana to have. Could be wrong, have been before, think it was 1972? :cool:

[betti]

:cool: my two cents sez that the wire wheel is the holy grail of kats, they werent available in Europe only Nz and Oz, problem is too many people have just stuck gs750 wheels on stock kats and try and pass em off as the real thing!!.
The first katana was released in 1980 at the cologne motor show, designed by Hans Muth, of a firm called target Design.
I owned a pop-up briefly, hated the 16inch front wheel, and have gotta agree they were properly , b movie sci-fi styled!!.
If you are a kat fan try
www.katanacentral.co.uk

For the full lowdown

[Krusti]

If I was ever to own a classic bike it would have to be the KATANA. Mate had a roughish one but wouldn't sell it to me cause he reckoned I would try to ride it too fast and it would stand up on me mid corner bloody :tugger: He could have been right tho....who knows. I wanted it anyway. :crybaby:

[igor]

those were the days

digital photos of photos so quality not so hot

1. taken 1982 - wire wheeler GSX1100 -plate can't remember
2. taken 1989 - GSX1100SZ - parked outside for 2 years so I restored it. Plate number 5MGL
3. taken 1986 - GSXR1100G. bought new from Mike Vinsen rode to Taihape first day I owned it and there was another one.

the 1982 wire wheeler GSX I put 750cc emblems on and used to suck in all the Honda and Kawasaki riders on there boldors and GPZ's

can't find piccie of my wire wheeler GSX1100SXZ owned from 1983 - 1986. Wot a beast that was (120HP). Nothing could catch it as it had very long legs until the GSXR1100G came along. Plate 54LCE. last saw it with a single seat and a heap of other mods in Auckland years ago

so I owned 5 GSX1100's and where I used to work on a shift of 10 guys 4 of us had GSX's.

my favorite was the GSXR1100G. it was a rocket is 1986. Top speed I had was 265kmh indicated on Western Bay Access road between Kuratau and Whacamaru. O to have one again. nah i'll be walking within a couple of days

54 mins from Riverlea Hamilton to Taupo (microwaves wot was those)
36 mins from Rotovegas to Cambridge where I got zapped for 72 in a 50kmh zone (oops)
28 mins from Rotorua to Taupo.

fuel consumption wasn't good.

an early morning trip from Taupo to Wellington one day on the wire wheel Kat saw me doing 245kmh on the Desert road and needing gas by Hunterville. 2 hrs 40mins to get to Wellington back in 1984.

and I got a mate with a 1983 ?? GSX750 Kat that is for sale at moment, not being advertised activly. He wife regno and warrranted it for xmas. Don't get ridden a lot if at all.

[Krusti]

Lucky bastard...you make me sick..lol

[igor]

Lucky bastard...you make me sick..lol

I rode 5MGL again in about 1996 after I purchased another new bike and the owner came with me.

I really did wnder how the hell I rode these bikes as I legs were aching afetr about 20 minutes.

I do remember the first day I got the 1983 GSX1100SXZ and rode from Auckland to Hamilton and that nite I went to sleep. Had to sleep with my legs tucked up in the foetal position as they hurt so much.

[ajturbo]

Nice one mate,they`re very popular over here with Classic Jap fans.Were they imported into N.Z? Most lusted after Kat was the 750 with the pop-up headlight.any of you guys want something a bit newer that looks just as good they bought out a 400 retro look-alike in the 90`s with the GSXR motor for the Jap market,I nearly bought one a few years back.


not from around here are you..???
the pop up one was a ...... well just say it was a waist of money!..

my ESD model could, out run, better fuel, stop, go around corners.. all better and yet it was same engine :spudwhat: