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-Mo...95076.htm?p=20

[Boob Johnson]

Wow, thats a rare find


Gotta wonder about all the seals, gasket etc

[riffer]

Not to mention the tyres and petrol...

[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.... 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

[kneescraper]

Speedo has been wound back by the looks.... 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?

[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.