Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I'm about to sell my house and with the left overs I'm going to try to strike 2 things off my bucket list. First thing is. A Brand New Motorcycle! After 30 years of riding 5-20 year old bikes I'm finally going to get a brand new bike GSXR 1000 :-) The second thing is something that got me into road bikes after a few years on dirt bikes. the greatest leap forward in road bikes. the 1985 GSXR750 the only problem is it's like trying to find chicken lips. So. Does anyone have a well looked after or rebuilt one in blue/white for sale? I'm willing to pay a fair price for the right bike. it will spend most of it's time living in my lounge. when it isn't being ridden hard on fine days or on display at shows. Help.
kazbanz,
Nov 15, 6:46am
Chokkie you might have to look offshore for an unmolested H1 or get one restored. Re gixxer thou. I would strongly suggest taking a 750 for a blat at the same time.im NOT trying to teach grandma how to suck eggs but genuinely feel that in this case less is actually more.
mals69,
Nov 15, 9:03am
Nah more is more - 30 years of waiting for a 750 ? Cannot beat cubes. Mate bought 600 gsxr and months later wished he got the 1000, you only talking 150cc more .
chocky8,
Nov 15, 9:16am
I had been riding a RF900 for the last 8 years untill 2nd gear went on it (common fault from what I've heard ) so last year I got a '96 gsxr750 and was totally under whelmed by the power :-( fitted a set of S20r battleaxe and OMG the handling was mind boggling!. then 3rd gear went walkabout. just gone. so the motor is with a mate in welly getting fixed. might use it for a track bike when I get it back. Kazbanz. have I seen you on the atnr?
yz490,
Nov 15, 9:16am
many years ago one of my 'brats' bought an ex race gsxr & must've had cams changed or altered & was a damn pain under take off speed. reminded me of when i put a 3/4 cam in my Mk111 zephyr & wifey trying to drive around town lol, put one inmy brothers Mk1 too & towing a horsefloat--stupid me back then [& now lol]. Anyway, boy got rid of that "85/86 & think got a "92 which was an import--beautifull & nice all round bike but as it turned out it didn't perform as expected & found it had smaller diameter pipes & no doubt everything else like cams/carbs/ignition/ compression etc but stuck with it for a long time as was starting to "grow up" [or settle down--as you do--most].
chocky8,
Nov 15, 9:18am
also the reason I want the thou is the bucket list thing is 300kph ;-) I understand I may have to do some mods to get it there but I'm not keen a 'busa
chocky8,
Nov 15, 9:23am
yz490. I'm 46 going on 25. no kids, no wife = it's all about me having fun and NOT having to grow up :-P
tigertim20,
Nov 15, 9:24am
The power and performance difference between the 600 and a 750 is far greater than you would attribute to only a 150cc capacity difference
mals69,
Nov 15, 9:30am
Yep and the 250cc more to a 1000 will be even more balls to the wall.
What bike you riding these days - you use to change bikes quite a bit ? (might have wrong tigertim - you ex ch-ch kiwibiker tigertim ?)
kazbanz,
Nov 15, 10:25am
yea probably " once or twice" :-) Think KB track days,,,,,,,
sifty,
Nov 15, 1:20pm
I had an 85 GSXR, sold it for $2.5k when I was at Uni as I couldn't afford the tickets. Now I see them featuring in Classic Bike mags.
Such is life.
trogedon,
Nov 15, 3:56pm
Keep the house & up the mortgage to buy your dream bikes. WIn / win.
kazbanz,
Nov 15, 4:10pm
Dude throw your leg over a 750 then over a thou and you will be amazed how well the 750 goes in the real world. I genuinely feel it is a better bike than a thou for road use in NZ
mals69,
Nov 15, 4:36pm
Yep 750 better round a track, if you into torque 1000 all the way - ask your mrs she always be up for more cubic inch .
desmodave,
Nov 15, 6:23pm
Ask an importer to keep an eye out in Japan . Ask the right person and you will have 1 .
m16d,
Nov 15, 6:54pm
You'd be better off with a Honda.
kazbanz,
Nov 15, 7:33pm
180k limited though
whqqsh,
Nov 15, 8:18pm
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
mals69,
Nov 15, 8:20pm
Not #1 under the sun for nothing !
Suzuki the poor cousin
hitman45,
Nov 15, 8:50pm
Hey chocky I did the 300km/h the other day(scary stuff) on my 2013 gsxr750. It's got 121hp at the rear wheel dyno works in Honda country Ashburton with a r77 yoshi slip on. As kaz said to me it's a great bike as it plays with the 600cc in the corners and makes the thou sweat on the straight. Are you wanting to buy the latest model or just one that has 0km on the clock?
desmodave,
Nov 15, 11:44pm
Is that just for that particular model ? or are all Jap imports limited .
desmodave,
Nov 16, 12:19am
Another quirk of the Jap rules at that time was you could 'import' a motorcycle of any power and capacity, so it was common to get the ROW bikes imported back into Japan (1100's etc) to get around the rules.
I did some reading so understand what rules they had back then .
kazbanz,
Nov 16, 5:10am
ALL vehicles have/had the 180k speedo. Get to 190 and you hit an artificial rev limiter, You can fit something to allow the bike to go faster but then you need another speedo if you want 220 etc Actually the funny thing tor ME is that in the real world the jap speedo's are better-easier to read. Get to 140 and any faster is loss of licence anyway so its academic.
richynuts,
Nov 16, 8:09am
There is a nice '86 model in Te Anau. just been listed yesterday under classics
gunhand,
Nov 16, 8:29am
Where when and how do you know you did 300kph?
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