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[walpurgis]

Talking of bikes that 'drop into corners'. Anybody ever ride a Kwaka GPX600R? That's the one with the sixteen inch wheels.



What a horror. I took one for a test ride, at every turn it just wanted to keep falling further as it leaned, really nasty. And it wasn't even usefully quick, no guts whatsoever apart from a short, mad, zing at the very top of the power band, useless. I walked away from that one quickly and bought a Honda CB-1 400 (naked 'Baby Blade') instead, which was a proper little cracker!!

[Pieoftheday]

Talking of bikes that 'drop into corners'. Anybody ever ride a Kwaka GPX600R? That's the one with the sixteen inch wheels.



What a horror. I took one for a test ride, at every turn it just wanted to keep falling further as it leaned, really nasty. And it wasn't even usefully quick, no guts whatsoever apart from a short, mad, zing at the very top of the power band, useless. I walked away from that one quickly and bought a Honda CB-1 400 (naked 'Baby Blade') instead, which was a proper little cracker!!

Always thought the gpx was a step back from the gpz looks wise? I couldn't afford the insurance on the gpz600 so bought the gpz 500, nice handling with a cracking engine,though it was prone to carb icing, I don't think ice formed in the carbs ,more condensation which stopped one pot firing,

[walpurgis]

GPZ500 was a decent all rounder. Not too slow either.

My favourite comparatively recent bike was also a 500 twin, a Suzuki GS500F. Not fast, but compact and light and quick enough to be useful and a decent bit of mid torque. I also liked the predictable handling and gruff exhaust note. Easy to work on and good on juice too.

[smithie]

Always thought the gpx was a step back from the gpz looks wise? I couldn't afford the insurance on the gpz600 so bought the gpz 500, nice handling with a cracking engine,though it was prone to carb icing, I don't think ice formed in the carbs ,more condensation which stopped one pot firing,

had a zzr1100,that was bloody lethal with carb icing problems...would start fine,then when your out and about it would cut out and do all kinds of silliness...
went in for the official kwak mod which was routing some water pipes from the cooling system or something....whatever,it never solved the problem completely on my bike.
loved the look of the gpz600,always wanted one,but i always had a thing about bigger is best and always went litre plus for most of the time...baring a ap50,fs1e,st70,ss50,dt175-250 mx,rd200,250,350,400,500 etc.

[SPS]

I had a trx850 on the 90's that suffered with carb icing, put me off riding it in the cold..
I'm in the process of restoring a little honda c110d. It has an oil line that runs through the carb to stop icing. They knew about these problems and cured them back in the sixties..

[Haselsh1]

had a zzr1100,that was bloody lethal with carb icing problems...would start fine,then when your out and about it would cut out and do all kinds of silliness...

LOL all of my carb based Ducati's suffered really badly with carb icing whereas my GPz1000RX never did and that thing could drink petrol faster than I can drink Abbott Ale. I think that of my past experiences on motorcycles, the GPz1000RX was by far the best of mine.

[smithie]

LOL all of my carb based Ducati's suffered really badly with carb icing whereas my GPz1000RX never did and that thing could drink petrol faster than I can drink Abbott Ale. I think that of my past experiences on motorcycles, the GPz1000RX was by far the best of mine.

funny,i never had any problems with the duke monster on that score.
never had any issues with the gpz900 or zx10,always loved the look of the gpz1000rx,even more so when you see how ugly the zx10 was...
my favorites where the gpz 750 turbo and gpz1100 air cooled.....i havent seen any of those around for a very long time...love to get a 1100 project to do up.

[Pieoftheday]

funny,i never had any problems with the duke monster on that score.
never had any issues with the gpz900 or zx10,always loved the look of the gpz1000rx,even more so when you see how ugly the zx10 was...
my favorites where the gpz 750 turbo and gpz1100 air cooled.....i havent seen any of those around for a very long time...love to get a 1100 project to do up.

Saw a gpz900 in Kawasaki autorama 2/3 years ago, 0 miles I think they were asking 14k,.

[smithie]

Saw a gpz900 in Kawasaki autorama 2/3 years ago, 0 miles I think they were asking 14k,.

lol....hope you snapped it up

[Haselsh1]

funny,i never had any problems with the duke monster on that score.
never had any issues with the gpz900 or zx10,always loved the look of the gpz1000rx,even more so when you see how ugly the zx10 was...
my favorites where the gpz 750 turbo and gpz1100 air cooled.....i havent seen any of those around for a very long time...love to get a 1100 project to do up.

I had a 600 Monster before I had a 900 and the 600 was bloody hopeless in cold weather because of the carb icing. OK on really hot days but a piece of bloody junk in autumn or spring. The GPz1000RX had hot water pipes between the carbs so I guess there was never going to be a problem with that. My Ducati 907ie was fuel injected even back then so again, no problem.