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posted January 28, 2006 08:10 PM
 Edited By: trenace on 28 Jan 2006 20:11
ZX14 evolution -- Kawasaki clays, as revealed in MCN
The "Stage 2" pic:
  
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jimzx9r
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posted January 28, 2006 08:54 PM
Where's the stage 2 pic?
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trenace
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posted January 28, 2006 09:30 PM
The one underneath where it says "The Stage 2 pic"  
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gunner
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posted January 28, 2006 09:36 PM
Doh!!! 
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trenace
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posted January 28, 2006 09:48 PM
Edited By: trenace on 28 Jan 2006 21:57
Actually it's easy enough to miss seeing that, being wedged between the pics. For that reason I was going back and forth between just giving a straight answer, it's the bottom pic,
or the above, but the humorous side won out, even though really not so fair. Deciding factor was I figured jimzx9r would see the humor in it, minimal though it was.
Anyway, I personally sure would have preferred the ZX-10'ish design
But on the other hand, that Stage 1, though aesthetic for a sports tourer, seems as if it would have been a real whale. Certainly seems to have more frontal area.
I guess the market -- combined ZX-12R sales plus ZZR-1200 sales -- was not seen as big enough to split between two bikes?
It would have been a cool idea, though maybe someone familiar with the realities would have said a STUPID idea -- for there to have been one bike, but two sets of bodywork...
dealers wouldn't even necessarily have to stock both kinds of bike because they could change one over to the other with 30 minutes labor and a swap of plastics... But I don't know
of any bike the Japanese (if anybody) has done that way, so maybe that is not practical even though it seems to make sense.
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Zammy
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posted January 29, 2006 04:04 AM
"Kawasaki has already comfirmed they WILL build a sport tourer around this engine" ...Yeh baby now bring on the NEKID Z1400 !
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posted January 29, 2006 04:28 AM
Was it the GTR-1400 with cardan drive and "only" 150hp
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FearsomeK
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posted January 29, 2006 07:29 AM
The lights in the stage 4 bike look awesome imho.
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posted January 29, 2006 12:30 PM
Who is the first to paint or at least try with black tape that stage 4 light system
Photoshop anyone (preferably using GREEN base color)
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posted January 29, 2006 03:13 PM
I really like #1 and #2...
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jimzx9r
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posted January 29, 2006 04:05 PM
Yeah I'm dumb, didn't read any of the text and just looked at the photos and saw #2 was cut off.
I like 1 and 2 a lot more than what we ended up with.
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