Here's one for us old fellas to drool over...

**scumdog** · 25th October 2006, 23:13

ONE day I'll get the Xn85 finished and give it a try out - the factory 'claimed' hp on it was 85hp too - but overseas sites claim it's the tip of the ice-berg, lots of potential for more.

**HenryDorsetCase** · 26th October 2006, 09:12

my particular vice is SOHC HOnda 4's. (though my "back in the day" bike, and the one I look at with the rosiest of rose tinted glasses is my ZX750A1 from 1983.) I have only got the 400 at present, but I am following the F1 for sale on tardme at present.

RZ350's and RD350's are such stupid money at present. Sure they arent making any more of them, but they are selling for more than they were new!!

**idleidolidyll** · 27th October 2006, 16:11

Originally Posted by 98tls

Flicking through Trade me i came across this old beast.....be nice to tuck away in the garage for sunny sundays eh....

ha!ha! I remember a mate of mine getting a test ride on a Z1RTC and buggering a car on the NW Motorway doing well over the speed limit.
He was on crutches for 6 months

One day in Waiouru at the Cold Kiwi some dope with a Z1RTC reckoned his whale was faster than my Cagiva Allazura from Westieland to Piha.

What a loser he turned out to be. The Z1RTC was quick in a straight line, obscenely so but it handled like a beached whale

**Crasherfromwayback** · 27th October 2006, 16:58

Originally Posted by idleidolidyll

ha!ha! I remember a mate of mine getting a test ride on a Z1RTC and buggering a car on the NW Motorway doing well over the speed limit.
He was on crutches for 6 months

One day in Waiouru at the Cold Kiwi some dope with a Z1RTC reckoned his whale was faster than my Cagiva Allazura from Westieland to Piha.

What a loser he turned out to be. The Z1RTC was quick in a straight line, obscenely so but it handled like a beached whale

I've owned one....and yes they do. A pregnant whale at that. Fun though.

**Mr. Peanut** · 27th October 2006, 20:51

Hehe, do you REALLY want 103hp??

Innocent times

**Dadpole** · 27th October 2006, 22:35

Originally Posted by MrPeanut

Hehe, do you REALLY want 103hp??

Sure sounds tame compared to todays bikes, but combined with those old frames and suspension...

**JimO** · 28th October 2006, 06:52

Originally Posted by Dadpole

Sure sounds tame compared to todays bikes, but combined with those old frames and suspension...

and no brakes and skinny little tyres

**Dadpole** · 28th October 2006, 19:15

Originally Posted by jimjim

and no brakes and skinny little tyres

I still have those

**Bonez** · 29th October 2006, 04:54

Originally Posted by Dadpole

I still have those

Same here:

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=27929

Some folk just don't know what they're missing

**Skunk** · 29th October 2006, 11:55

Originally Posted by jimjim

and no brakes and skinny little tyres

Originally Posted by Dadpole

I still have those

Originally Posted by Bonez

Same here:http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=27929
Some folk just don't know what they're missing

That's not skinny... Skinny is 110 on the rear or less.

**imdying** · 29th October 2006, 20:34

Originally Posted by Crasherfromwayback

The fucking thing used to bend in half so badly with that sort of output that it used to change lanes for you when you were game enough to pull the pin!!

I want it back!!!

Just get a gsxr1000 and hacksaw through one side of the swingarm

**Crasherfromwayback** · 29th October 2006, 21:48

Originally Posted by imdying

Just get a gsxr1000 and hacksaw through one side of the swingarm

lol....not even close mate! You'd also have to fit cable operated front brakes....make the rest of the GSXR's frame outta spagetti, and put lil narrow tyres on it that were made out of plastic. You'd then be getting close!

Ohhh it was fun.

**Dadpole** · 29th October 2006, 23:53

I always loved the cable operated front brakes
They taught you how to corner fast (and the power of prayer)

**Ixion** · 29th October 2006, 23:57

I never had any issues with cable operated 2LS drums. They worked, reliably. Gave better feel than hydraulic disks and stopped quicker from legal type speeds. Only thing they weren't good at was repeated stopping , or stopping from very high speeds (high enough for heat build up to go critical) . But who needs to repeatedly brake hard on the road. And in 40 years I've never had to brake to a standstill from much in excess of 100kph.