Modern Classic Motorcycles - The Kawasaki GPz900R

All through the seventies, manufacturers, bike, especially as the giant Japanese companies were competing to produce the most powerful and fastest bikes of the time. The 1983 saw the launch of Honda VF750F with revolutionary 90 degree V4 engine sitting in the package that gave the force of unprecedented handling and Japanese bike, and spread its roots all the way to this day.

In 1981, placed GPz1100 Kawasaki in the company right back in the front of the Superbike class, and then in 1984 it had delivered a fatal blow to the competition virtually in the form of GPz900R. The fact that GPz900R remained in production for 15 years, and remained at or near the top of the tree Superbike for all this time, is a testament to the importance of this device.


Introduced in Sika Leguna in December 1983, covered the "Pee Wee" Gleason quarter Standing in less than 11 seconds, and took the bike for more than 150mph, and dealing with it well so that it dominated the Trinidad and Tobago in the swamp produce a standardized format. With the chassis fully enclosed and exciting in the looks and design, despite the fact that there is very little of a revolution in the field of spare parts, and this was the first bike to be liquid cooled DOHC, 16-valve power unit accidental.

It was just under the backbone of tubular steel, but without the usual tube down which saved weight and allowed the use of box window completely redesigned sub-section made of aluminum. The whole point of GPz1100R to create a bike an incredibly powerful that also deal with such a smaller machine and it excelled in this. With the shock front to combat diving and monoshock rear suspension, brakes and superb aerodynamic package, which resulted in her classic good looks, and JP-Z is in many ways the most bike-style superbikes been since then.

It is the user on a bike that has remained in production longer than the two models to replace them, and GPZ1000RX X and Z 10 -, although near the end of his life he lost Superbike hard core image was regarded as a capable sport - tourer.