Floyd Parkes Kawasaki showroom now open at 1821 Ferntree Gully Rd Ferntree Gully (If you're heading out of town there towards the hills it's in the first group of new factories on the left as you approach the Mountain Gate shopping centre. I heard them advertising on 3MMM this morning and it's just a few km from work so I popped in during my lunch break. Nice big showroom with plenty of room between the bikes so you can have a squiz at them and they have price tags hanging off all their new bikes (even the Z750 had a price tag). Chatted to James Parkes (I guess he's part owner). They are the home of the Castrol Kawasaki race team and the team mechanics are the same blokes who will be working in the workshop servicing the customer bikes. Also have another mechanic (some foreign bloke, name of Warwick someone - who used to be a WSBK mechanic?? anyone?) who can be requested to work on bikes for an additional per hour. They also had one of the Kawasaki sponsored V8 supercars in the workshop getting final sticker preparation for team launch tonight apparently. The Kawasaki GP riders Hoffman and Nakano will be in store on Saturday afternoon doing the autograph signing thing. Kawasaki riders might appreciate having an alternative to P*t*r St*v*ns in the eastern suburbs. Nev.. '03 ZX12R '02 CBR1100XX