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Class of '84: Suzuki Katana 1100 v. Kawasaki GPZ900R
By Colin Goodwin on 07/06/2009 11:53:56
1984. A great year for films, a seminal year for music, and the year Kawasaki stole Suzuki’s Katana 1100 thunder with their all-new watercooled GPZ900R. Overnight, superbikes had suddenly entered the computer age
memories will be able to tell me whether George predicted the arrival of the watercooled four-stroke motorcycle engine or the 16-inch front wheel. I certainly hadn’t seen them coming because my first sight of a Kawasaki GPZ900R left me reeling.One day while
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The £3000 solar-powered GPz900R
By Visordown News on 15/10/2008 10:42:27
An old Kawasaki, some batteries and a solar charging system - check out the latest in alternative-powered home builds
Kyle's solar-powered GPz900RYOU'RE LOOKING at a home-built, solar-powered electric motorcycle, constructed using an old rolling chassis from a Kawasaki GPz900R. The owner, Kyle Dansie, of Utah-based company ZEVUtah, purchased a defunct old Kawasaki
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25 years of the Ninja
By Ben Cope on 22/07/2009 11:57:00
From the GPZ900R to the current ZX-10R and everything in-between. Kawasaki hit the nail on the head with the Ninja range and they're celebrating in style.
The Ninja brand is officially a quarter of a century old in 2009, and Kawasaki Motors UK is set to recognise the important anniversary in style.Alongside events planned at Kawasaki dealers across the UK, the celebration will focus on a week long calendar of activities and eve...
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How Ninjas took over the world. From GPZ900 to ZX-10R
By Roland Brown on 10/05/2010 16:58:26
The original GPZ900R of 1984 sired a long and illustrious family of Ninjas that are a huge part of motorcycling today. From the mental ZX-10R to the blistering ZZ-R1400, none of them would have existed without the GPZ900 25 years ago
They have plenty in common, the latest ZX-10R and the GPZ900R, its inspiration from a quarter-century ago. Potent straight-four engines, top-quality chassis, sharp looks, and an unmistakably aggressive presence. What separates them — even more than
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Motorcycle Radar: 1986
By Roland Brown on 17/11/2010 16:49:50
Journalist Roland Brown has ridden everything that’s walked or crawled in the last 30 years. Here he looks back at the bikes that defined 1986
. It singlehandedly created the big super-sports division and made everything else on two wheels seem ponderous and dull.This was the year in which Tom Cruise was making most blokes jealous by riding to Kelly McGillis’s place on his GPZ900R in Top Gun
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Motorcycle Radar: 1986
By Roland Brown on 02/12/2010 13:55:46
Roland Brown is a world class swordsman, entertainer, poet, scientist, boxer, ladies' man and motorcycle journalist. Only one of those is true.
and 1200 that were arguably the best sports-tourers of the 80s. Ironically the chain-drive FJ1100 was intended to be a super-sports bike when released in 1984, but thrashing it round the Isle of Man TT circuit in company with a Kawasaki GPZ900R confirmed
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Motorcycle Radar: 1984
By Roland Brown on 22/11/2010 15:21:24
Roland Brown takes a look back at what was happening in 1984
...Warrior ClassIt would take a brilliant bike to be crowned the best in this of all years, and Kawasaki’s GPZ900R Ninja was an all-time great. The Big K’s first liquid cooled, 16-valve superbike began a new generation for the firm whose reputation for mighty fours
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Used Review: Kawasaki ZX-9R (B1 - F2P)
By Bertie Simmonds on 05/04/2008 16:32:53
Kawasaki built a Blade beater for 1998, just in time for Yamaha's R1 to trump the pair of 'em. But all was not lost - the ZX-9R drew a dedicated following.
to the Z1 of 1972, through to the GPz900R of 1984, and they did the business again with the ZX-9R B Ninja in 1994. Thing was, this was a bit of a flawed gem. It was fast, it was furious but it was also a bit wobbly at the back and a little bit lardy to boot
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Motorcycle Radar: 1986
By Roland Brown on 18/11/2010 15:01:39
The VFR750F. Need we say any more? This was 1986
’s legendary RD350LC stroker, complete with full fairing. Kawasaki caught a cold with the GPZ1000RX, which was uglier, heavier and more expensive than the GPZ900R Ninja it was intended to replace. At least the Big K’s 1000GTR tourer was comfy as well as fat
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Motorcycle Radar: 1985
By Roland Brown on 25/11/2010 16:02:24
International roadtester and motorcycling sage Roland Brown looks back at the years that changed motorcycling over the decades…
they launched the following year’s GPZ1000RX at the Salzburgring — and brought along the existing GPZ900R to show the world’s journos how much better the new bike was. Trouble was, even the hacks who didn’t crash the RX on the damp Austrian track preferred
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