This thing was garage kept and is in great condition. It's a 91, it needs carb work and the basic maintenence upkeep. I couldn't believe the deal I got on this thing. I know it's not a Honda, but I have an EF, doesn't that count?

 

weird as it may sound. but i can't see ****. i mean, i can see like 1/4 of the bike, scroll... see another 1/4 and so on and have to use my imagination to piece together what the bike actually looks like. but good buy, the bike looks mint.

 

sure you couldn't have made the pictures a little bit bigger? 'cause that would have been cool.

 

Lifesize pics are the best

OT: ^Nice screen name LOL

 

thats nothing! check out my katana!


yo nice buy edwin!

 

Sorry for all the 56k connections. I guess I was just too excited and just posted up the pictures straight from the digi cam.

 

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i dont have that problem...my web browser is resizing the pics to fit the page. i am using firefox. maybe thats why.

thats a good deal, but it might be a nightmare to get running. after my experiences with carbs, i'd remove them and ship them to the best carb rebuilder you can find. it will cost as much as what you paid for the bike, but its your best bet at getting the bike running like new.

 

great find eazy-e

 

Thanks man. Yeah, I'm expecting to spend about $600 to get the thing running again. It's still a great deal to me. Man, I'm on cloud 9.

 

Be prepared to hear alot "Can-O-Tuna" remarks from Gixxer owners (myself included )

 

No need to take the carbs someplace to get rebuilt, i've been rebuilding carbs since i was a little kid. I'll take care of that for you

 

SWEET!!!! The next Sushi dinner will be on me and then some.

 

AAAAARG!!! I HATE YOU!!!!!!
Falcon, change my title to "I hate Home Skillet!"
Thats a great bike you got there...

 

sweet bike, i would rock that for 600 dollars

 

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H.S you might have lucked out here...

 

good find! keep the shiny side up and rawk the tuna!

 

I've rebuilt some of the same CV carbs before. Its not too terribly difficult, and I bet yours are in much better shape judging by your bike. I hate you.

 

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[yoda]I sense anger in this one.[/yoda]

 

You know what, I was offered a non-running Katana 1100 for twice what you paid, and I would have bought it if I had the money... That oil cooled 1127cc Suzuki motor is the greatest engine ever conceived by man.

 

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no way, it doesnt have vtAk!

 

Thats true, I didn't think of that... vTAK is very important also. I will say this though: Despite its lacking vtAK, this engine has been the base for many a 7 second drag bike. Even one 7 second 'street bike' too

http://www.google.com/search?h...+bike

Edited: ( FYI the current 'bandit 1200' 1157cc engine is basically just a 1mm overbore version of the 1127cc katana engine...)


Modified by mos at 9:27 AM 10/7/2004

 

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Tell that to the Kawasaki Z1 clan... change everything about motorcycling from the early seventies forward. Almost caused ALL american motorcycle companies to close down permantly.

 

I have owned and ridden a KZ for years- not unlike the one pictured in your post. If I were a bit older I might agree with 'the Z1 clan.' It just so happens that around the time that I was the right age to get my licence, the older gsxr's were hot ****. Because of that, I will always view them through rose colored glasses. I'm sure its the same way with the Z1 fanatics.

Stock for stock, Z1's are dogs compared with modern machines, just like an 1127cc suzuki is, as is every other groundbreaking bike of the past. Its the glasses we view them through that makes them special. People that lack these glasses just see old junk.

Since this is Honda-tech, I will say this also: IMO the 1979 CB750 is the bike that "changed everything about motorcycles from the early seventies forward" not the Z1 which was released four years later. The Z1 uses basically the same engine configuration as the Honda that preceded it.

Edited-

...but the 1127 still pwnz all!



Modified by mos at 2:22 PM 10/11/2004

 

How is a 1979 cb more influential than a 1973 Z1? The GSXR's didn't come out until a decade later and still had a backbone frame... Na, it was the Z1 900!

 

http://www.sportrider.com/bike...story/

Just one of many links you will run across on google... the cb is a more historical bike than the z1 just by virtue of the fact that it was released first.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'backbone frame' but the 1985 (86 in the USA) gsxr had the same type of frame all the way through the mid nineties. Dual spar aluminum that is. It is one of the first mass produced bikes with an aluminum frame, if not 'the' first. A 1986 gsxr750 weighs less than the first cbr900rr, a bike that is often touted as being the beginnings of the ultralight revolution. I think the 86 weights around the same as the first R1 also...