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Kawasaki ZZR

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Description: Kawasaki ZZR 1100 D7, Black, 1999(), 38200 miles, , High performance sports tourer. Nice clean example! £2595.00, TPS Motorcycles, Eastbourne, 01323 488388 Price: £2595

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TPS Motorcycles

97 Station Road Polegate
Eastbourne
East Sussex
BN26 6EB
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Kawasaki ZZR 600cc 91/92 (J)
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its like an old and trusted friend, comfy, reliable,still puts a grin on my face.Not upto sports bike handling but it will cover alot of miles with ease. This is my first bike since my accident ive owned it for aproximateley 18 months now and ridden in all manner of conditions ive got my confidence back due to this great bike.
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rosstheboss on 29/07/2008
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Kawasaki ZZR 600cc Apr '99 (T)
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this is my second zzr both bikes have been faultless
plenty of power + comfort.
handling is not the best but i would still recommend
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klk650 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire on 12/04/2008
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Kawasaki ZZR 1200cc Sept '03 (53)
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Bought this bike 12 months ago (2007)and have used it nearly every day for commuting to work, for which it never fails to put a smile on me face. I also toured round Spain and France for a few days in September last year, traveling companions were an R1200GS and Multi Strada. Probably the best commuting bike nor the best touring steed but as an all-rounder it is great. Average mpg to date is 48 mpg! Servicing costs are pretty reasonable (I don’t use a dealership).

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Peejay in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire on 23/03/2008
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Kawasaki ZZR 600cc 93/94 (L)
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i brought this bike about 2 years ago after selling my honda cbr 600 due to a back injury from a car accident. the zzr was a lot more comfortable to ride and was easier on the pillion as well. it was very cheap to run and was more economical for me.unfortunately i had to sell the bike due to new baby ,but im am now looking at buying another in the near future, i would recomend the zzr to any one looking for comfort and ecomonical to run and maintain . i used mine daily and often went to the coast just for a ride out as i loved it .
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drayco in Bedford, Bedfordshire on 07/12/2007
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Kawasaki ZZR 1400cc Apr '06 (06)
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The Fourteen can trace its lineage from the Air cooled super bike Z900 35+ years ago. through the GPZ1000RX, ZX-10 B models, and then the first ZZR proper, The C1. This was an 1100cc machine offered into the marketplace in 1989. I had one and covered a lot of ground on it. This progressed into a D9 configuration by which time it was sanitised a little and the ZZR1200 ‘C’ models though also a superb machine somehow was behind the opposition, concurrent for a few years was the ZX12R unrestricted ‘A’ models, then the sleeker ‘B’ culminating in the radial callipered B6 models, as a stop gap before the launch of the ‘14’ at the beginning of the 2006 season..



This is a big bike, the engine crammed into its monocoque chassis with the fairing just about covering its blushes. Two sets of lights nacelled into the front fairing with. running lights on all the EU time. Giving it a thoroughly modern leading edge. The main headlights provided a white light that marked the way ahead at this time of year, providing good delineation in the gloom of the oncoming winter nights.



I have to say I had gotten used to the clock set-up on the last two Kawasakis the Z1000 and ZX6R. Both of a similar nature and easy to read at a glance. The fourteen had a mixture of traditional clocks, (white faced), and a separate digital panel with the ancillary information displayed by virtue of a mode switch. Including two trip meters, current range and average mpg, as well as the time and gear indicator..



The reach to the wide spaced chunky looking bars is good, equally is the foothold and crunch angle of the knees. The seat is wide and for a modern bike quite sumptuous and for once the screen actually appears to work, pushing the air around and away without obscuring ones vision of the clocks with its top edge like most sports bikes, slight bubble and tinted. The mirrors are widely spaced and akin if not straight from a ZX12 having ridged stalks, presumably for optimum air slicing, they however are a bulky unit with the glass inset and movable separate to the unit itself, you can however see what’s going on behind..



On start up the dials whirr once as the default start up settings are activated, a ‘K’ logo appears on the dash the fuel pump primes and you are now ready to thumb the starter, which catches immediately and puts the bike in fast idle mode turning over at about 1,500rpm. This shortly settles down to slow idle speed - 1,000 rpm, time to select first gear. (Clunk -read ‘positive’).



I picked the bike up with nothing but vapours so my first stop was the petrol station. The big zed sucked up £17 quid to full, I reckoned that I had about 135 mile tank range, so setting my trip meter and with a full gas tank I pierced the slow moving commuter traffic and head off to work, with little chance to open it up.


The bike was mine for three days. The guy who owns it had just received it back from Dream Machine having requested a MotoGP replica style paint job, and what stunning paint! The new livery transformed the staid (but I guess classy monotones) of the standard bike, made it come alive. The sleek bodywork and detail somehow seemed more apparent.

By the time I gave it back I had managed a meagre 206.7 miles at an average of 38.0 mpg, the first tank returning 15 miles short of my estimate at 119 miles.







This bike Kawasaki categorizes as a sports tourer and that’s exactly what it is. For sure this bike is all about speed, this will always be the main talking point. Punching through the air, oodles of torque and a romantic delusion that on the way home the roads will be empty, there will be no Police and no cameras thus a chance to really prove its hyped mettle and to exhilarate the soul of the rider.



Horsepower greedheads and BHP junkies will buy this bike purely because of the claim to the fastest production bike currently made (or was! I have just read the Bike magazine review of the 2008 Hayabusa) despite the fact that it’s restricted to the gentleman’s agreement amongst mainstream manufacturers to 186. I guess the only difference between this bike and the Hayabusa in the real world of daily or regular use for instance is brand allegiance and an opinionated view on the aesthetics which are worlds apart though they both claim to cut through the air the most efficient. It would be interesting to sling a leg over the ‘Busa’ to see if there was a marked difference.



I was expecting a monstrous machine. Perhaps part of me was hoping it would be so in order to pit my skills a