katana returns???????

**notme** · 8th October 2005, 16:13

Originally Posted by Bonez

There's a 400 version which actually looks sweet. Looks like it's air cooled but is actually water cooled. There's one at Phil Turnbel's.

There was an example of the 400 in my gargre for a while...definitley a classic!

**Bonez** · 8th October 2005, 16:20

Originally Posted by allun

There was an example of the 400 in my gargre for a while...definitley a classic!

Was surprised how big the seat is. Looked quite comfy for two up riding.

**Bonez** · 8th October 2005, 16:23

Originally Posted by thehollowmen

Rebadged overseas

Only in Merica I think.

**skidz** · 8th October 2005, 19:00

I like the six cylinder engine with 180 BHP.

**inlinefour** · 8th October 2005, 20:02

Not sure about the new one though.

**gav** · 8th October 2005, 22:57

Damn near bought a Katana 1100 as my first road bike many years ago. Well, not quite my first road bike I had owned a GT380 as a 17 year old. I was 20 and had been racing MX and enduros for a couple of seasons on Hondas, had been racing an XR250, then a XR200RE, then a hot XR350RD, which eventually dropped a valve and hand grenaded. Was that pissed off with the whole dirt bike thing, though "thats it, time for road bike". The local Honda dealer I dealt with had two possible bikes he'd do a deal on, one was a CB750F that the shop had raced at the Castrol 6 hour on and the other was a GSX1100 katana. The only reason I bought the CB750 was it was raining and the rear tyre on the Kat looked a bit bald for a rookie road biker (yip, seriously, if it had been fine, probably would have bought the big Kat) Kept the CB for 12 months and traded it on a GSX1100EX, posted photo in some other thread. Always wonder how I would have got on with the Kat, if it had been fine....

**ajturbo** · 8th October 2005, 23:16

sorry but it an't a kat!

**Pixie** · 9th October 2005, 10:38

Originally Posted by alarumba

Wonder if the confederate bikes will be the same for this era

No
Because it is american
"American styling" and "german styling" are oxymorons.
One notable exception being the designer of the Katana,who was German but was working for a Japanese company.His design for the BMW RS was pedestrian.
The Katana was first bike in which the lines of the bike followed the angle of the cylinder rather than just being horizonal

**Pixie** · 9th October 2005, 10:41

Originally Posted by alarumba

Katana was such a cool name. Why did they slab it onto ugly bikes?

A katana is wot you use to slash your guts out

**Coyote** · 9th October 2005, 10:59

Originally Posted by Pixie

No
Because it is american
"American styling" and "german styling" are oxymorons.
One notable exception being the designer of the Katana,who was German but was working for a Japanese company.His design for the BMW RS was pedestrian.
The Katana was first bike in which the lines of the bike followed the angle of the cylinder rather than just being horizonal

That's a bit pig headed. What about Late 60's/early 70's american muscle cars?