Bitter Sweet Day New N1K

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By the way CIP, the one and only Kawasaki in my life was a G31M Centurion. My dad found a deal on one that had been set up for short-track racing. I can still remember riding it for the first time like it was yesterday. It seemed so wicked fast it was scary.

[url=http://www.motoretroillustrated.com/issue_05/centurion.pdf]Cool article from Moto Retro Illustrated on the Centurion

Interesting article, no carbs, trying to figure out where that fuel line is going? I just gave away a 1975 Kawasaki 100 enduro I've had in the garage for years for my kids when they where young.

It didn't look this good::
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Nice! I'm not a fan of modern bike styling, but Kaw did a very nice job on that one. The riding position looks friendly and it looks passenger friendly (something not many sporty bikes can say these days). For many years I've been saying that not much on bike dealers floors interest me, but I really like that N1K with its integrated luggage.

I'm going down to the Kaw shop next week to have them mount a tire for the CB. I'll have to get an up close look.

My first 4 bikes were various flavors of KZs. I'm a big fan of the Big Green.

Flyn,

Its a real nice bike, had a chance to put 130 miles on it today. Very comfortable ridding position, great gear box and thee seat is not bad.

My favorite bike up until the CB1100 was my 77 Kawasaki KZ1000. Great motorcycle. Only Kaw I ever owned, although I had sold them for years and rode a bunch of them. Even managed a Kawasaki shop for awhile.

Never really cared for their triples, preferring the Suzuki triples. Guess I never was much of a hooligan, and the gentlemanly nature of the GT Suzukis suited me more.

Wouldn't stop me from owning an N1K though. Very cool bikes.

I would think its very similar to your old FZ1. They both have similar power and ergo's.