Posted by phill
on 2/10/2009, 7:31 pm, in reply to "It's Quiet On Here!"
81.132.200.48
aye up james,you bad lad,i hope your not thinking on selling the big Z to go and buy a moped CBX,with those lovely chocolate cams lol,the z1300 trounsed the cbx in a recent shoot out in i believe wheels magazine,if you take a look on retrocitymotorcycles web site i think they might have that article,in my own opinion the cbx looks like an old bike,sounds daft i know,it is old,but the z1300 is also old but they still make models to look like it,started with the gpz1000r then onto the zrx1100 then moved onto the zrx1200r all look virtually the same as the z1300,what more can i say.kawasakis have always been the king of the retros,everyone else have played catch up,and they still havent caught em up.
--Previous Message--
: There's not much activity on the message board
: at present, so I decided - dare I say it -
: to look at the International CBX Owner
: Association website. It is very good; in
: fact it is easy to spend 1 or 2 hours there.
: Of particular interest were the early
: American road tests of the CBX, which had a
: lot of information on the development of the
: bike. Best of all, there are comments and
: letters from the genius behind the design of
: the engine - Shoichiro Irimajiri, what a
: guy! It led me to wondering who was
: responsible for the Kawasaki 1300 engine. It
: would be good to learn some more about the
: 1300's birth; the testing procedures and
: prototypes etc.. I imagine that the Japanese
: factories must be so interesting in the
: R&D sections. Just picture all those
: little yellow men talking excitedly, as they
: argue over what might have caused an engine
: failure after running it at 1000rpm over
: redline for ten hours!
:
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