Hi

In article <47d9809a$0$13880$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com>, CL 
<flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:

>>> on the Ninja 900 and the industry broke ranks the year that bike was 
>>> introduced ... 1986 or '87, maybe?  This was followed by a general 
>> 
>> I thought that the first GPz 900 was something like 85 so we're on the same 
>> page here. That was available locally?
>
>It first came out as a 750 and was put out as a 900 a year or two later. 
>    The 750 version is so understressed that it became a major force in 
>endurance racing for a few years.

Interesting, there were some GPz 750 in australia at that time, I had been 
told that they were actually a sweeter bike.

I had a GPz600R at the time (1986) and thought it was very sweet, if a 
little twitchy on rough back roads (16" back n front) like were common around 
where I lived. I recall that it didn't like city riding much, and used to 
break down a bit around 5000 for the first few dozen K's when taken out on the 
weekend for a thrash.

>
>> yes, well ... another thing which pissed me when I was there was why I 
>> couldn't take anyone on the back on the motorway. Stupid in my thinking, all 
>> the jap 'otomodachi' who weren't bike riders all said "abunai dakara" ... 
>> suppose noone's told them more accidents happen at intersections around town 
>> than on the motorway.
>> 
>> Is that numbskull rule still the go there?
>
>It is being relaxed in stages.  They started with the Shutoko and Tomei 
>kosoku and you had to have an ogata menkyo for at least five years. 
>They've added more kosoku and relaxed the rules even more over the past 
>five years, or so.  But, I don't think you can take a passenger on 
>anything smaller than a nana-han.
>

See Ya
(when bandwidth gets better ;-)

Chris Eastwood
Photographer, Programmer               
Motorcyclist and dingbat

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