Japanese jump on "Ugly Naked Bike " bandwagon

[Brian d marge]

I think it looks like a Transformer! Robots in Disguise (or disgust!). Looks interesting - would have to see one with MkI eyeball before passing final judgement on them!

Do an image search for Gandam its a a fav jap robot ... a lot of older people ,,are right into it here ( losers )

But , They are of an age now ,,,and work in .....H^%$&a

Stephen

[Blairos]

Just found this
A new GSF1250 Bandit, and a GSX1400R Hayabusa amongst this lot for 2007 it seems....

[Hillbilly]

Here's a better look at the 2007 Suzuki GSF1300R aka B-King and the Kawasaki Z1000 from the front.

[hXc]

The B-King can just turn around and go back to where-ever it fucking came from. Some ugly alien-looking thing!

But that Z-Thou. . .Wow! That's hot! Don't like the zorst, but that's an easy fix!

[Bob]

So Suzuki are going to bring out the B-King? About time too. The photos don't do it justice. In 2003 (if I remember rightly), they were showing off the concept-bike at shows... and it was THE star. It was a real battle to get anywhere near it.

There were lots of calls for it to be made into a production model, but Suzuki seemed hell-bent on resisting any temptation to bring it to full production.

But then, three years on, we got... the GSR600 - which no matter how good it may be, is a watered down version of the B-King.

Just dug out the photos I took at the time - and it looks like they're bringing it out as it was at the show. Well worth a look as and when it arrives - in the flesh it looks so much more chunky and aggressive.

Wonder if they're bringing it out as the GSX1400 is being killed off (in Europe anyway) by the next round of emissions regulations - which are way, way tougher than any existing leglislation (they're on a par with car regs I believe).

Someone mentioned the ER-6f looking good in black. It does... but it don't look too shabby in silver either (he says, pointing at his avatar... )

[scracha]

Sif, whats the point if it looks like helen clark? I'd rather go that 10th of a second slower than look like the offspring of clark and brash.

Urgh...a bike that looks like Helena Clark. That's once bike I couldn't sit on

Shhh...I quite like the look of the Kawasaki

[Lil_Byte]

All these bikes make my GS1200ss look positively beautiful.

[Hitcher]

The worst thing about that BKing is the urine sample bottle on the bars. Why do manufacturers do that?

[Grumpy]

Shitty looking exhausts aside that new Z looks the biz and I think I heard it was going to be using the old ZX10 donk. Can't wait!

[Nutter34]

Shitty looking exhausts aside that new Z looks the biz and I think I heard it was going to be using the old ZX10 donk. Can't wait!

Sorry to disappoint you but the motor is based on what we have now. If you look at the engine layout, there's no stacked gearbox etc of the 10 motor. The Z was also supposed to be an ally frame but it's still steel too. Been discussed on Riderforums quite a bit, with pics from a guy in the States from a Kawasaki show...

[Scouse]

Some things jus never Change the Kwaka looks good as usual the suzuki looks shite

[Grumpy]

Sorry to disappoint you but the motor is based on what we have now. If you look at the engine layout, there's no stacked gearbox etc of the 10 motor. The Z was also supposed to be an ally frame but it's still steel too. Been discussed on Riderforums quite a bit, with pics from a guy in the States from a Kawasaki show...

Well I suppose there's nothing really wrong with the old motor but a ZX10 donk sure would have spiced things up a little.

[Deano]

B-King.......for the guy (or gal) who eats a lot of Burger King ?

[Nutter34]

Well I suppose there's nothing really wrong with the old motor but a ZX10 donk sure would have spiced things up a little.

True but so would shedding 20-30kg's... I doubt with all the extra junk they've added to it that it'll be lighter than ours... and if it is, not by much.

[Grumpy]

True but so would shedding 20-30kg's... I doubt with all the extra junk they've added to it that it'll be lighter than ours... and if it is, not by much.

I hear ya. These days I need my bikes to shed some weight ...... to make up for what I seem to be gaining ...