zxfingyz
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posted April 11, 2006 11:03 AM
Muzzy praise faint?
Not knowing Rob Muzzy, I have to ask those who do:
Was that ZX-14 praise in Motorcyclist magazine faint or is he just low key in general?
Reading it I couldn't help but get the idea he was not that impressed.
Right or wrong?
  
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worm~hole
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posted April 11, 2006 02:20 PM
 Edited By: worm~hole on 11 Apr 2006 17:09
...cool, calm, and understated, I think...guys of his caliber in the industry tend not to get too excited or brag too much...pride, yes...brag, no....am I right or am I right?
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posted April 11, 2006 02:52 PM
You aint right by a long shot morm.
That of course, has nothing to do with Rob Muzzy 
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posted April 11, 2006 04:11 PM
...lemme clarify "not too excited"....what I meant was "They might not get all gushy gaga about the new bike intros like us mere mortals do."
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posted April 11, 2006 05:24 PM
What was exciting was when Rob & Scott were decimating the Superbike class. AMA Superbike hasn't been the same for me since. Watching Matt on his Suzuki has been like watching a robot (no disrespect to Matt & Suzuki) just kinda mis watching a shrieking peaky bike with semi nut job rider and the crazy mustachioed scientist who put it all together.
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posted April 11, 2006 05:58 PM
Those were the days...
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posted April 11, 2006 06:10 PM
Edited By: zermatt on 11 Apr 2006 19:10
quote:
You aint right by a long shot morm.
morm? 
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posted April 11, 2006 06:18 PM
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Those were the days...
Yes they were....
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posted April 11, 2006 06:37 PM
I have not seen the Motorcyclist article. Here is my opinion of the ZX-14. It has more horsepower and torque than any production motorcycle I have dynoed. I am sure that it will out accelerate all current production motorcycles and if the speed limiter were de activated it would be the top speed king. That said the most important thing is that the ZX-14 is a fantastic motorcycle to ride. The bike is comfortable, agile, and the power deliver is smooth and electric. To those who purchased a Blackbird, ZX-11, ZX-12, or GSXR 13, the ZX-14 is the motorcycle you dreamed of.
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posted April 11, 2006 07:02 PM
Nuff Said . . . . . . 
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posted April 11, 2006 08:13 PM
I liked my zx-11.
I love my zx-12r.
I hope the zx-14 is equally as good as either a year down the road.
Preferably without the zx-11's nasty habit of spitting out the #3 main or the zx-12's nasty habit of burning up stators).
I'll wait with baited breath.
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posted April 12, 2006 06:15 AM
quote:
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You aint right by a long shot morm.
morm?
morm, worm - whatever, just anything but norm.
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posted April 12, 2006 07:04 AM
NORM!!!!!!
Rob - thanks for the clarification. Sounds like this bike's got your stamp of approval on many levels. Now I just wish Kawasaki would let us poor consumers get our hands on them... 
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posted April 12, 2006 07:34 AM
Well, who knows Rob Muzzy better than RobMuzzy? Awsome.
"and if the speed limiter were de activated it would be the top speed king"
What is the Top Speed King? That Harley thing?
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posted April 12, 2006 08:18 AM
No, that Harley thing (Destroyer?) is supposedly the "quickest production motorcycle" - as in 1/4 mile, and that's ONLY if you consider a very limited-production $30,000US motorcycle to be a "production" motorcycle... I sure as hell don't.
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posted April 12, 2006 08:38 AM
So what gets the official designation as "Fastest Production Motorcycle" and who gets to say?
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posted April 12, 2006 10:09 AM
I think the 'busa boys claim theirs to be the "fastest production motorcycle" (aka. top speed) because they're in some Guiness book or some such thing. That claim should be null & void since newer bikes like the 14 are capable of higher top speeds without performance modifications. Oh well, we'll probably never win that arguement.
Quickest (to me anyway) has always meant acceleration. If some magazine wants to say that the Hardley Destroyer is the quickest production bike, that's fine - but it's really a factory-developed professional race motorcycle that happens to be made in sufficient quantities to qualify as a "production" motorcycle. That's a load of BS too.
It'll soon be clear that the '14 is not only the quickest and fastest regular production motorcycle when compared on an even playing field. No $30,000 price tag, no speed restrictors, etc. *PLUS*, this bike will out-handle either of the others while spanking them on the drag strip. For me, that makes for one pretty sweet bike! Well... it would... if Kawasaki would give mine to me already!!?!?!?!
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posted April 12, 2006 11:13 AM
...can you imagine if Kawasaki (or Suzuki, for that matter) decided to produce their own version or a drag-strip-use-only 'production bike' and sold it to the masses at about $15K a pop AND offered contingency money for those who participated and placed at the tracks?....I think its a good idea, good PR, reasonably affordable, and it'll help keep drag racing off the streets and on the tracks where it belongs....GOOD FOR EVERYONE AND A WIN-WIN-WIN FOR THE MANUFACTURERS, THE GENERAL PUBLIC, AND THE ENTHUSIASTS!!!...remember: you saw it here foist!
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posted April 12, 2006 11:23 AM
Edited By: worm~hole on 12 Apr 2006 12:24
...how much could it cost to modify a production bike at the factory level with a wider and longer and fixed strut "swingarm", race-slick, wheelie bar, bigass tach w/ shift light, air-shifter option, less fuel capacity (1 gal. should be sufficient since you're only traveling about 1/2 per run), total loss battery, appropriate body-work, and pretty much nothing else that isn't needed for 1/4 mile runs?
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posted April 12, 2006 12:07 PM
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...how much could it cost to modify a production bike at the factory level with a wider and longer and fixed strut "swingarm", race-slick, wheelie bar, bigass tach w/ shift light, air-shifter option, less fuel capacity (1 gal. should be sufficient since you're only traveling about 1/2 per run), total loss battery, appropriate body-work, and pretty much nothing else that isn't needed for 1/4 mile runs?
Exactly!! Hardley did it... I'm sure the Asian bikes could do it too - and pretty easily. Maybe it'll happen one day... 
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posted April 12, 2006 07:14 PM
...hey, if cage drifting can make it big with tire sponsors and such, why not factory 'spec' drag bikes drag racing at the track?....they can set it up with weight classes (rider+spec bike) so that the flyweights don't get to race the sumoweights...spec-dragbike bracket racing at its finest 
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posted April 12, 2006 08:35 PM
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...hey, if cage drifting can make it big with tire sponsors and such, why not factory 'spec' drag bikes drag racing at the track?....they can set it up with weight classes (rider+spec bike) so that the flyweights don't get to race the sumoweights...spec-dragbike bracket racing at its finest
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posted April 13, 2006 04:30 PM
Wow, Rob Muzzy checks in from time to time, Now that's pretty cool. I met him in 1999 and he seem to be a very down to earth person, thanks for the kind words, and yes I did love my ZX-11 the whole heat thing was the reason I sold it. A problem I did not find on the 14 in Daytona.
Rob
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