Looks like a fun bike, '84 GPZ750 Ninja

[Huzo]

All I was saying #23 is that you were probably drunk at the time.   I suppose it's clearer now that you sobered up. 


//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////  I couldn't resist that.
OK< that was mean.  But funny.  Let's roll with it.

I'm happy to play, but my attempts @ humour don't always work on you guys.
(Sometimes they don't work @ home either..!)
So..
Without ambiguity, who would you back in a 1/4 mile drag and a "flying mile"...
Just so I know which of your previous contradictory statements to discard. Please be as mean as you can, then we can descend to a low level to start our "discussion".
If I go first I'll be called a troll, but if you blokes do, it'll be ok I'm guessing...

[LowRyter]

I'm happy to play, but my attempts @ humour don't always work on you guys.
(Sometimes they don't work @ home either..!)
So..
Without ambiguity, who would you back in a 1/4 mile drag and a "flying mile"...
Just so I know which of your previous contradictory statements to discard. Please be as mean as you can, then we can descend to a low level to start our "discussion".
If I go first I'll be called a troll, but if you blokes do, it'll be ok I'm guessing...

OK now that we're both reasonably sober, I'll take the Kaw.  Assuming the Grisso had been rollerized and wouldn't puke itself and there was even one running 30 year old Kaw.   But, heck I'll run the Kaw with my Greenie.  I never said I'd win with it but will take on the challenge. 

BTW- You're a good guy for a troll.   

[Huzo]

Thanks mate..
The Zed will flog the Griso like a red headed step son...

[LowRyter]

to kick this dead horse again, I thought I'd share a custom bike build from the show "Fantomworks".

A customer is paying to get her Kaw 750 shaft drive bike converted to a cafe racer.  So they're converting it chain drive and monoshock with a bunch of retro bits thrown in.

It might've been easier just to start with GPZ 750 that already had the chain drive and mono shock.   

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$   !!!!!!!!!!!

$3500 in parts and $4400 in labor.  They are bragging about how little is cost.

 

[Kristian]

Ain’t no way that 750 should be considered fast. Back in 1984 when I finally received my brand new interceptor 1000, those 750s were roaming the streets. My interceptor would smoke the hell out of those bikes. So if you all think that 750 is fast, I can only imagine how fast you would think my interceptor is!

Those damned things were directly responsible for my changing bikes in 1987. I bought my first bike, a mint Kawi KZ1000Z1-R (stupid) in 1986, and was returning home on the freeway some night thinking I was overlord. I came across a 1000 Interceptor, and a race followed. After the KZ got *blown off* and started a wobbled like a good'un at 115 MPH, I promptly went to the shop and bought a GPZ900R Ninja and looked for a rematch...

Owned four Kawasakis, but, also four Honda VFRs.

[Tusayan]

I bought my 750 Interceptor soon after riding a friends '83...  My first fast street bike.  The friend then traded up to a 1000 in '84, then again to a VF1000R in '85.  I tried both of them and they were surely powerful but not as good overall as the 750.  So I stuck with my 'V45' until stumbling into Italian bikes, starting with a Guzzi in '86 or '87.

The 1000 Interceptor could be ridden quickly on a twisty road but it took a lot more faith in the bike to do so than on the 750...  like driving a heavy car with over boosted power steering.  The VF1000R was another step in the same direction - it was just not suitable for twisty road riding, more of a GT... which might have been one reason why Dr Johns Guzzi endurance team was able to beat Honda that year.

During the period when I was searching around for a 750 Interceptor (the dealers were quickly sold out in '83) I considered getting the Kawasaki instead but rejected it as being too old fashioned.  I wonder now whether it wasn't actually as good, or better.

[Joliet Jim]

Everytime old Japanese bikes come up I just think back to my favorite commercial - even the ninja knows to hide from the hurricane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs9lE94XQaU

[Kristian]

Everytime old Japanese bikes come up I just think back to my favorite commercial - even the ninja knows to hide from the hurricane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs9lE94XQaU

And it was true, too. Just as the GPz600R Ninja was a giant leap forward for middleweights only a couple of years before, so was the 600 Hurricane a big leap forward over the Ninjas.

[BrotherJim]

My first street bike at 19 was an '84 GPz900R.  You've got to learn to run before you can... I'm lucky I'm not dead.

[Kristian]

My first street bike at 19 was an '84 GPz900R.  You've got to learn to run before you can... I'm lucky I'm not dead.

Haha, yep, between the KZ1000 being my first with the 900 Ninja second, they'd both run away with me into nearly every corner. Didn't begin to learn how to ride until my third, a new '89 Yamaha FZR400...