best classic jap

ok first off im new here so hi

And now onto the subject what in your opinion is the best classic jap bike

mine is a z1000 from 1979 mainly because it was my first big bike

 

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Sorry to disagree.
My 36 year old little Honda CD175 is one of the Classics that cut the
throat of the British motor cycle industry.
Only disadvantage of going out on it is I get stopped by people saying
'Hey, I had one of those, went on for ever ... ... ...'

Then you know you have a Classic.

I suppose the nearest British bike is a Bantam. Had one of those too,
but years since I saw one on the road. John.

 

The defining machine for many would be the style, poise and sheer
glorious mechanicals of the seminal Honda CB550.

In brown.

 

AddR1 says...

Z1000 Mk2

 

<watches float for a while.... gets bored and wanders off>

 

Best Jap classic bike?

See it here:

www.artistic.flyer.co.uk/7aug05.jpg

 

I had one of them, my first road bike, went on for ever.

 

I had one of them, went on for a few months.

 

The bike I wish I hadn't sold was a mint XS650 Roadster in Black.

I was a but drunk and offered it to a bloke from Bath one night in a
pub for silly money and the bugger turned up the next week to collect
it

But out of the 30 or 40 bikes I have owned it was nice.

My 650 T120 Bonnie was nice as well, but then people think. ' It's
British it has to be a classic

' This was a classic as it was one of 3 stolen of the Triumph stand at
Earls Court Bike Show in 1961'

 

I'll see your mk2 and raise you a z1000h1

 

78 CB 400 Four F2 says...

That's coming along nicely.

 

chrisu says...

Never liked the injection model, I didn't like the black/gold
paintwork. The MK2 was the bike that came out a short while after I
passed my test, and I lusted after one but couldn't afford it.

 

I've had about 20!

 

That's because the daft old MZ gimmer doesn't know his CB500Ts from his
CB550s......

 

Hard to say but persoanl faves, in no particular order, are H2C, Z1 and
1100 Katana.

 

Lozzo fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

I had one of those, although I preferred the colour scheme of the fuel
injected Z1000H.


--
Steve Parry
K100RS SE & F650
and a 520i SE Touring for comfort

(not forgetting the SK90PY)

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

 

AddR1 fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

Z1-R ... for the same reason

--
Steve Parry
K100RS SE & F650
and a 520i SE Touring for comfort

(not forgetting the SK90PY)

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

 

The Older Gentleman fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

Anyone want a brand new Katana?

--
Steve Parry
K100RS SE & F650
and a 520i SE Touring for comfort

(not forgetting the SK90PY)

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

 

Err.. no. An XS750 does *not* count.

 

Pip Luscher fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

I actually quite liked the look of those (and the XS850).

--
Steve Parry
K100RS SE & F650
and a 520i SE Touring for comfort

(not forgetting the SK90PY)

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk