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Seeing how it's been nearly 18 months since that, with no further alarms getting rung, and how everyone has had 758,214 opportunities to take a minute to think about the security of their passwords, I've taken that notice down.
Follow this link for all the info that has transpired about the whole mess.
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Anybody ever.....
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motorpsycho67
- Double-dip Diogenes
- Location: City of Angels
Anybody ever.....
Anyone ever rode or even own a Kawi ZX12R? Seriously thinking of becoming an asshole again...
'75 Honda CB400F
'82 Kawalski GPz750
etc.
'82 Kawalski GPz750
etc.
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Jaeger
- Baron von Scrapple
- Location: NoVA
- Contact:
Re: Anybody ever.....
I spent some Quality Time on GOSTAZ's ZRX some years ago. Specifically, that was the time I said "Why the fuck does this thing have a transmission? It doesn't really need it." I then put it in 3rd and from dead stop -- without shifting gears -- took it up to The Ton. I didn't have to totally smoke the clutch, even. Ground was level.motorpsycho67 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 11, 2023 7:20 pmAnyone ever rode or even own a Kawi ZX12R? Seriously thinking of becoming an asshole again...
I've done the same with Lilah, to be fair, but it's become my metric for "Real Fuckin' Bike." I don't think Athena would've done it.
--Jaeger
<<NEUTIQUAM ERRO>>Bigshankhank wrote:The world is a fucking wreck, but there is still sunshine in some places. Go outside and look for it.
2018 Indian Scout -- "Lilah"
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motorpsycho67
- Double-dip Diogenes
- Location: City of Angels
Re: Anybody ever.....
ZX12R is not the same as ZRX12. A bit confusing, to be sure. But, thanks...
'75 Honda CB400F
'82 Kawalski GPz750
etc.
'82 Kawalski GPz750
etc.
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DerGolgo
- Zaphod's Zeitgeist
- Location: Potato
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Not that I got much to contribute, but I got an internets, so I Qwanted for "comparison zx12r vs zrx12".
My thought being brother Jaeger's experience could perhaps be translated.
I did not find that comparison.
But I did find:
- Kawasaki Ninja ZX-12R vs. Suzuki Hayabusa GSX1300R
- ZZR1200 vs. ZX12R (magazine article reposted on a forum)
- ZX-12R v CBR1100XX v K1200S v GSX1300R
Now, neither was that search exhaustive, nor the be-all-and-end-all.
If I may suggest asking yourself what bikes you have adequate experience with that other people might compare to the ZX12R? And why isn't it called a Zixxer?
Is there, perhaps a bike in your history which, if compared to the Zixxer, would provide the most illumination? A yardstick? A meter rod? A foot bar?
In the end, with the exception of Bill's entirely scientific nought to hundredweight exercise (that's an imperial ton, right? Or is that what, a hogscubit?) and similar, any bike's characteristics are most commonly and most usefully expressed in relation to another bike, are they not?
Even if no professionals nor journalists cobbled together any road tests for that most illuminating comparison.
The internet doesn't forget. Doing a lot of googling for really odd stuff, I know the internet particularly doesn't forget message boards, forums, any of that.
If you figure bike x might be well worth comparing to the Zixxer. Odds are that someone else has figured the same. Or just did it, regardless of merit or virtue of such comparison.
It's a what, a +20 year old model? Gawd that feels awfully old for something that's totally a recent and cutting edge bike...
Someone will have compared it. Almost certainly to something you know and you can use as a yardstick.
I'm not offering to do the whole searching for you, but I'm willing to help. Give me a holler what sticks you can yard with.
My thought being brother Jaeger's experience could perhaps be translated.
I did not find that comparison.
But I did find:
- Kawasaki Ninja ZX-12R vs. Suzuki Hayabusa GSX1300R
- ZZR1200 vs. ZX12R (magazine article reposted on a forum)
- ZX-12R v CBR1100XX v K1200S v GSX1300R
Now, neither was that search exhaustive, nor the be-all-and-end-all.
If I may suggest asking yourself what bikes you have adequate experience with that other people might compare to the ZX12R? And why isn't it called a Zixxer?
Is there, perhaps a bike in your history which, if compared to the Zixxer, would provide the most illumination? A yardstick? A meter rod? A foot bar?
In the end, with the exception of Bill's entirely scientific nought to hundredweight exercise (that's an imperial ton, right? Or is that what, a hogscubit?) and similar, any bike's characteristics are most commonly and most usefully expressed in relation to another bike, are they not?
Even if no professionals nor journalists cobbled together any road tests for that most illuminating comparison.
The internet doesn't forget. Doing a lot of googling for really odd stuff, I know the internet particularly doesn't forget message boards, forums, any of that.
If you figure bike x might be well worth comparing to the Zixxer. Odds are that someone else has figured the same. Or just did it, regardless of merit or virtue of such comparison.
It's a what, a +20 year old model? Gawd that feels awfully old for something that's totally a recent and cutting edge bike...
Someone will have compared it. Almost certainly to something you know and you can use as a yardstick.
I'm not offering to do the whole searching for you, but I'm willing to help. Give me a holler what sticks you can yard with.
If there were absolutely anything to be afraid of, don't you think I would have worn pants?
I said I have a big stick.
I said I have a big stick.
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motorpsycho67
- Double-dip Diogenes
- Location: City of Angels
Re: Anybody ever.....
Done enough of Der Googlings to have the numbers. Just wanted some personal input. Thanks DG.
'75 Honda CB400F
'82 Kawalski GPz750
etc.
'82 Kawalski GPz750
etc.
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DerGolgo
- Zaphod's Zeitgeist
- Location: Potato
Re: Anybody ever.....
I was thinking somewhere, someone would have done a more tactile comparison of handling etc., the stuff going beyond the numbers. Or would have praised/lamented life with that model.
But you know best what you need to know, so don't mind me. Always pleased to help.
If there were absolutely anything to be afraid of, don't you think I would have worn pants?
I said I have a big stick.
I said I have a big stick.
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Jaeger
- Baron von Scrapple
- Location: NoVA
- Contact:
Re: Anybody ever.....
Hey, @problemaddict, didn't your ratfighter start life as a Ninja of some variety? Though that was a looooong time ago. 
--Jaeger
--Jaeger
<<NEUTIQUAM ERRO>>Bigshankhank wrote:The world is a fucking wreck, but there is still sunshine in some places. Go outside and look for it.
2018 Indian Scout -- "Lilah"
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problemaddict
- Captain of the UTMC Fighter Squadron
- Location: hatfield, PA
- Contact:
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Yeah, long time!
The ratfighter is a 94 ZX600E. It is and has been reliable as an anvil. But it's generation is in the ZX11 era. Zx12R is a couple generations newer, and I can't really comment on what changes Kawi may have made in their manufacturing. Hopefully, and i would bet, that those bikes are stout. It was Kawi's flagship bike at the time and I would assume they'd want it to be perfect. But, iirc, they were trying to knock the Busa off it's top speed pedestal so maybe they cut some corners on long term reliability.
I dunno, I'm just rambling lol
Psycho, I say GET ONE
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problemaddict
- Captain of the UTMC Fighter Squadron
- Location: hatfield, PA
- Contact:
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This sparked my memory of this early Internet, or even, VHS era video comparison.
I swear there was another one, maybe done by the same ppl, where they do a long distance road trip with both bikes... I'll have to look around.
I swear there was another one, maybe done by the same ppl, where they do a long distance road trip with both bikes... I'll have to look around.
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problemaddict
- Captain of the UTMC Fighter Squadron
- Location: hatfield, PA
- Contact:
Re: Anybody ever.....
I think it's this one, featuring a cameo of a bike I own, the Blackbird, and also featuring MUCH hooliganism:
Gonna rewatch this one on my luck break today!
Gonna rewatch this one on my luck break today!
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motorpsycho67
- Double-dip Diogenes
- Location: City of Angels
Re: Anybody ever.....
Was also considering a Blackbird (Honda reliability...), but the specs on the Kwak look better to me
'75 Honda CB400F
'82 Kawalski GPz750
etc.
'82 Kawalski GPz750
etc.