Some pics of my new toy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24244090@N07/

As requested or required.

 

the mini-fairing and exhausts look like they were designed by a blind
spastic.

 

I don't mind that...

....but they are just gash.

Cab - get an aftermarket system, stat!

 

Heheheh. I've just got the bloody thing. Gimme a chance. I quite like
them though.

 

Don't mince your words, eh?

 

A nice modern sprotbike style, under the bike with a shortie silencer
would look great and transform the brute.

Then again with 99bhp does any of it matter.

 

when the previous Z1000 came out, a lot of people didn't like the 2x2
exhausts, though I quite liked them. These new ones are simply
hideous, and look like they came off some sort of custom abortion. And
the fairing (whilst I accept it probably works) really spoils the
clean lines of the previous bike.

But hell, you'd look like a twat on whatever spaz-chariot you chose,
so it's a moot point.

 

I think it accentuates the lines, to be fair.

Heheh.

 

106BHP.

Funnily enough, the weight difference between my old GSX14 (226Kg) and
the Z1000 (209Kg) makes a significant (as you can well imagine)
difference in handling. It's tough, but I'm not really comparing
apples with apples here, but the Z1000 seems to be a much better
bike.

I don't know (as yet) what the ride would be like if it was
derestricted to 125BHP but with what is already available, I'm quite
happy. As Bonwick said ages ago, I can't miss what I've never had.

I've done a bit of hunting around and there is a campaign to get the
law overturned, but it's going to be long and arduous. We are talking
about the French government, after all.

 

Not to everyone's tastes, as you've seen. ;-)

 

The whole thing looks a bit post-Gundam, although nowhere near as hideous as
the Burger King.

<nods>

 

Which has a ridiculously small petrol tank. I think it's got the same
range as a 535 Virago.

Heh, you can **** off too

 

I had high-hopes for the B-King, but they majorly fucked it up.

and that's with his helmet *on*.

 

freak.

 

I don't know what's gone wrong at Kawasaki recently. After a decade and
a half of pure eyecandy it all seems to have gone to shit. The last two
versions of the 10R have been ugly as sin and **** knows what they're up
to in the exhaust department.

 

and look at this bastard:

http://www.kawasaki.co.uk/product.asp?Id=3404454C008

 

Is there anyone that likes the look of those horrible triangular funnel
monstrosities?

 

It'd look quite good parked in front of a black background.

At night.

Post-hammerite.

 

Detuned ER-6n with an ugly fairing. I'm sure somebody will buy it.

 

I hadn't realised it was possible to detune an ER-6.