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From: The Older Gentleman on 11 Mar 2007 12:06 Potage St. Germaine <flying_booger(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Nope. The "X" had nothing to do with the type of bearings. The engine > number of my 1982 GS-1100EZ starts with "GSX". It has 4 valves per > cylinder and a roller bearing crankshaft. > > The 1980 GS-1100 was designated GSX-1100ET, the 1981 was designated > GSX-1100EX. > > But the 1983 came back as a GSX-1100ED Right. In the UK, we only ever got the four valves per cylinder plain crank models. We *did* get the GS1100G, briefly (enlarged GS1000 shafty thing), but if it said GSX, it invariably had a plain bearing crankshaft. I don't believe we ever got the combination of a roller bearing crank and four valves per cylinder. The US got some odd models.... -- BMW K1100LT 750SS CB400F CD250 Z650 GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 ANORAK#06 YTC#3 BOF#30 WUSS#5 The bells, the bells.....
From: Nate Bargmann on 11 Mar 2007 22:54 On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:48:14 -0500, Mike W. wrote: > On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:58:33 GMT, Bob Scott <bob(a)bobandaileen.co.uk> > wrote: > >>Mike W. <outofthe(a)emailbiz.com> writes >>> >>>I spent too long restoring this and falling in love to get anything >>>else:) And there's nothing else in the cop world that can stay with a >>>KZP. >> >>So what else is in the cop world over your way? >> >>Round these parts marked plod bikes are either Pan Europeans (Honda >>St1100) or BMs (usually K12 or R1100RTs). > > In my neck of the woods, it's predominantly Harleys, though there are > some BMW's showing up. The HD seems to be most suited to the urban > mission, and the BMW to the interstate mission. I think there's one > department left in New England with KZP's. > > The ST1300 is starting to see some use in other parts of the country but > I've heard of several reports of them having a mysterious stability > issue at speed. Since the ZX14 was touted in the rags as having managable power delivery in the low gears due to it's electronics, I wonder if Kawasaki might consider dipping a toe in the police bike market again? - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, the pessimist fears this is true."
From: Mike W. on 12 Mar 2007 20:56 On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 04:04:21 -0500, "Captain Midnight" <Notany(a)twip.invalid> wrote: >"Mike W." <outofthe(a)emailbiz.com> wrote in message >news:knbvu2l4gdvevdkroucuga82ugfes8t7jo(a)4ax.com... >> On 5 Mar 2007 12:20:25 -0800, "Potage St. Germaine" >> <flying_booger(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> > >> >The rims were called "clencher" rims and Goodyear made the special >> >tires, as I recall. >> >> The KZP run flats were made by Pirelli actually. Instructors are quick to >> point out that "run flat" is an inaccurate term and that the proper one is >> bead retention. >> > >Some time in the early eighties I had a set of Goodyears on a GS1100. They >had some sort of double lip bead retention system on the tire only. No >special rim required. Can't recall the name but clencher doesn't seem right. >Long time ago. I do remember highlighting the lettering with a paint stick. >By the time the tires were replaced RWL was common. Tossed the stick. > >Turns out they were GT2. > Thanks... sounds good ideas go way back:) On another matter, apparently I screwed up the dosing on my cocaine. I should not have said Pirelli, but Dunlop. Apologies. Mike -- Mike W. 96 XR400 99 KZ1000P 70 CT70 71 KG 100 (Hodaka-powered)
From: Mike W. on 12 Mar 2007 21:01 On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:54:44 -0500, Nate Bargmann <n0nb.DO.NOT.SPAM(a)ME.networksplus.net> wrote: >On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:48:14 -0500, Mike W. wrote: > >> On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:58:33 GMT, Bob Scott <bob(a)bobandaileen.co.uk> >> wrote: >> >>>Mike W. <outofthe(a)emailbiz.com> writes >>>> >>>>I spent too long restoring this and falling in love to get anything >>>>else:) And there's nothing else in the cop world that can stay with a >>>>KZP. >>> >>>So what else is in the cop world over your way? >>> >>>Round these parts marked plod bikes are either Pan Europeans (Honda >>>St1100) or BMs (usually K12 or R1100RTs). >> >> In my neck of the woods, it's predominantly Harleys, though there are >> some BMW's showing up. The HD seems to be most suited to the urban >> mission, and the BMW to the interstate mission. I think there's one >> department left in New England with KZP's. >> >> The ST1300 is starting to see some use in other parts of the country but >> I've heard of several reports of them having a mysterious stability >> issue at speed. > >Since the ZX14 was touted in the rags as having managable power delivery >in the low gears due to it's electronics, I wonder if Kawasaki might >consider dipping a toe in the police bike market again? > >- Nate >> Hey Nate... how you been? There are indeed specific rumors about new Kawasaki forays into cop bikes, but there are also some privateers attempting to make a service life extension package for the original KZP's. The *real* reason it was dropped was a lack of ABS and departmental liability, so if you cured that, you really have a package the guys on the streets loved. Mike -- Mike W. 96 XR400 99 KZ1000P 70 CT70 71 KG 100 (Hodaka-powered)
From: Mike W. on 12 Mar 2007 21:05
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:34:11 -0600, Wudsracer <dirtbike_smackoverRemove(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:54:55 -0500, Mike W. <outofthe(a)emailbiz.com> wrote: > >>On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:53:46 -0600, Wudsracer >><dirtbike_smackoverRemove(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >Mike, > This place (Brock Creek) is trials bike heaven. >I even have a Dunlop trials tire mounted on the rear of my GasGas >EC300 for this ride. Jim... got a recommendation for a trials tire for the XR? My perfectly good rubber on the XR needs to be replaced since the shops here in 413 are now being operated by DOT Nazis. Figure an MT21 front. > >Come down this way anytime. You're on my list of "must visits"... it'll happen. >Give me some warning and I'll take some time off and show you some of >my riding places (and my sling blade). <G> Mmmmgh... Allright then... I'm there:) > >Ride safe, Bro. Word... I don't want to be known as the guy who got impaled by a cone:) You too! Mike > > > Wudsracer/Jim Cook > Smackover Racing > '06 Gas Gas DE300 > '82 Husqvarna XC250 > Team LAGNAF > -- Mike W. 96 XR400 99 KZ1000P 70 CT70 71 KG 100 (Hodaka-powered) |