Mad Max bikes?

[fridayflash]

mad max2 the road warrior is on sky at the mo, its a fucken great movie. anyhow the first action scene has a bike, a buggy and a landau coupe all piloted by baddies chasing max and his dog in the v8 intercepter, the scene ends when the coupe and buggy crash when they come accross an upturned truck.
max goes back to said truck to salvage leaking fuel, and the baddies on the bike (punk warrior and his homo buddy) stop at a distance and snarl at max
before retreating with a wheelstand (yeah!!) soooo...what ive always wondered, what is the bike? i reckon its a kwacka motor altho its hard to tell with the cool finned clutch cover (aussie outback is bloody hot of course!) so maybe gt750 or even an early gpz.
anybody have any ideas?

[frogfeaturesFZR]

Kawa 1000 from memory, the bodywork was done locally in Oz for the movie.

[unstuck]

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[Madness]

I Googled it.

http://www.madmaxmovies.com/cars/madmax2/

[fridayflash]

aha, yep they say kawa z900 or 1000 made to look like a katana 1100 which was new at the time...single front disc and unusual mag wheel pattern
is confusing and brake calliper is forward of the fork leg rather that aft

[fridayflash]

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thats a classic 1000 from the first movie eh!

[unstuck]

thats a classic 1000 from the first movie eh!

Yeah, always wanted one, until I rode one.

[fridayflash]

Yeah, always wanted one, until I rode one.

hehe, thats the true testament...a mate of mine has an early 1000 with cr carbs and all the fruit looks pretty hot with the earlier 900 teardrop tank etc

[BuzzardNZ]

It's certainly not a gt750.

Was a good movie, they should do a re-make

[T.W.R]

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La Parisienne full touring fairing....they must have sold hundreds after MadMax came out

aha, yep they say kawa z900 or 1000 made to look like a katana 1100 which was new at the time...single front disc and unusual mag wheel pattern
is confusing and brake calliper is forward of the fork leg rather that aft

Wez's Z looks more akin to Craig Vetter's Mystery Ship Z1000

[BuzzardNZ]

Yeah, always wanted one, until I rode one.

the homo on the back or the z1000?

[JimO]

Was a good movie, they should do a re-make

tom cruise could play max

[unstuck]

the homo on the back or the z1000?

You bastard, you know Im not a fan of Kawasaki's.

[iYRe]

They also used a few ZRX 1100's in all the mad max's.



from the left, its the 6th front wheel - green white a blue bikini fairing

You can buy the custom kit for Goose's Zrx:

[iYRe]

also, for lulz.. this is one of the camera crews for the original Mad Max (btw, MM 4 is in production i Oz right now)