Kawa Z1000 - 2010 ... Discuss

JayA · Nitrous Nuisance Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Karma :

Just seen this and cant make my mind up if I love or hate it ... The cans have got to go Sick

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MonkeyKnuckle · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Jan 2009 Karma :

Watch this before deciding. Laughing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2fvByZOGbU
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Blunet600 · Nearly there... Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Karma :

Cool video, but still it is as ugly as sin! Would never buy it, even if i had all the money on the world.
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BanditJeff · Trackday Trickster Joined: 24 Jul 2009 Karma :

I think it looks damn cool and i know a bloke that would fabricate me some really trick stainless pipes for it.
Totally impractical for riding to my rallies in Belgium so it would have to be a second bike.

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Faldo · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Karma :

I think it looks gash. As a hardened Kawasaki fan I find this bike ridiculous. It looks like an overgrown ER6 (which is a fine looking bike and by all accounts a decent motorcycle), but in it's class the CB1000R and Triumph 1050 win out on looks alone, never mind how it rides.

The original Z1000 is a bike that I know I will own (once I get the naked bug), the revised one showed Kawasaki's move away from good looking motorcycles, but this one is fugly.

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chris-red · Have you considered a TDM? Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Karma :

It looks like a scooter.
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hmmmnz · Super Spammer Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Karma :

i like the old model better, less plastic the better i say
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Darth · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Karma :

I actually really like the look of it. Might by one a few years down the line when it taken the initial brunt of depreciation Smile

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Mister James · I want to believe! Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Karma :

I like it, and I like the exhausts too.
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MarJay · But it's British! Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Karma :

I Quite like it.
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The Shaggy D.A. · Super Spammer Joined: 12 Sep 2008 Karma :

It looks like the Transformers artists did the design work.

And that was a particularly wanky voiceover on the video.
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stevo as b4 · World Chat Champion Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Karma :

Loved the vid! Reminded me of the Yakuza sports bike riding thugs in Black Rain, from the scene's of dark smokey buildings and multi storey car parks in down town Tokyo etc! Laughing

Shame about the looks of the current Z though! Sad

The first one was a really cool bike, and it's something i've always considered owning for my next big bike. I won't be buying this one though, id rarther save for another 5years to get an MV Brutale, or else buy a really tidy Hornet 900 and trick it out with a Late Blade front end and lots of tuning bits etc!

I love the rough feel, the sound and the soul of fast IL4 Kawasaki's,
But i hate to say that Id be looking at a Speed triple, TNT, or even a Yamaha FZ1 long before buying a 2010 Z thou!

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Pernig · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Karma :

Looking at the first picture, the exhaust looks like another new bike with Dragonzord's shoulder stuck on. The rest of the bike looks OK I guess.

Then I watched the video. Those clocks are shit hot! The exhausts look a bit better and on both sides, which I prefer. However to be properly cool it should have the massive cans of a ZZR 1100.