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

[Ms Piggy]

Very niiiiiiiiiiice mate.

[inlinefour]

but that is one nice bike

[Krusti]

Ditto.....awesome...

[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.

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

[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!!
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!!

[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?

[betti]

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

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