{"id":479,"date":"2010-09-27T13:02:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T17:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wb4eje.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2021-12-04T11:20:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T15:20:34","slug":"cycle-worlds-best-used-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"Cycle Worlds “Best Used Bike”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was surfing through some of the on-line motorcycle magazines when I came across a Cycle World Special Feature, CW’s Best Used Bikes and there was a photo of a ZRX1100R.\u00a0 Well, that immediately got my attention, so I clicked on the link.<\/p>\n

Best Used Bikes<\/a><\/p>\n

I was interested because about three years ago I bought a used 2002 ZRX1200R, the newer, bigger brother of the 1100.\u00a0\u00a0 Back in the day when I was putting around on my Honda CB77 305 SuperHawk and my Honda 450 DOHC, Kawasaki was the premier performance motor cycle.\u00a0 The first of their legendary super bikes was two stroke H1 and H2 triple cylinder bikes.\u00a0 A buddy of mine had the 750 H2 Kawasaki. These things were just scary fast from a stop light.\u00a0 Kawasaki came out with their first four stroke performance bike with the Z-900, followed by the legendary KZ-1000 and the KZ-1100.\u00a0 These bikes were very fast, handled well, and was the platform that Eddie Lawson won several national championships on.\u00a0 Eddie’s 1981 KZ 1000 was the model for the “retro” ZRX-1100 \/ 1200.<\/p>\n

\"ZRX1100R<\/a>

ZRX1100R and KZ1000<\/p><\/div>\n

The ZRX is retro in styling, but backed up with some more modern running gear.\u00a0 The 4 cylinder inline engine is liquid cooled as apposed to the air cooled KZ.\u00a0 It has modern multi piston caliper disk brakes, electronic ignition and some of the later models even have catalytic converters for reduced emissions.<\/p>\n

I have been thoroughly pleased with the Kawa.\u00a0 It is very versatile, it can be a daily driver, it can do a pretty good imitation of a sport bike, but the reason I like it, it is just fun to ride.\u00a0 It has enough power to be both fun and dangerous.\u00a0 It is kinda fun walking away from a Z06 Corvette at a stop light, but you can’t roll on a lot of throttle quickly or it will stand up on the rear wheel in a heartbeat!\u00a0 As a daily driver it is smooth and is perfectly comfortable cruising at 35 miles per hour, or if you want to do a track day it will cruise nicely at 135 miles per hour.<\/p>\n

Ride Safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was surfing through some of the on-line motorcycle magazines when I came across a Cycle World Special Feature, CW’s Best Used Bikes and there was a photo of a ZRX1100R.\u00a0 Well, that immediately got my attention, so I clicked on the link. Best Used Bikes I was interested because about three years ago I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}