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$3,200
1996 Kawasaki GPZ 1100 ZX1100E Sport Touring Motorcycle w/ Saddlebags
Price:
$3,200
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Summary:
Used 1996 Kawasaki GPZ
Location:
Chestnut Ridge, NY
Description:
Hi!Up for sale is a hard-to-find black 1996 Kawasaki GPZ 1100 Sport Touring Bike. The Model Code is ZX1100E. This bike was made for motorcycle enthusiasts who want the speed and performance of a sport bike with the combined comfort of a touring bike.Although GPZ's have been around for many years, this particular design could only be found in 1995 and 1996, so it is well sought after. I personally spent about five years looking for it myself. I'm selling it because I have another bike and just don't have room for two anymore.This bike is in great shape, runs perfectly, and will satisfy your need for speed. It rides incredibly smoothly and the frame is as straight as an arrow. You can take your hands off the hand grips at any speed (not that I recommend doing this) and you won't feel an ounce of shaking.Another GREAT part of this deal is that with the bike you are getting the Factory OEM Kawasaki Saddlebags that were specifically designed for this model motorcycle! See the GPZ logo on the bags. These bags are also VERY hard to find. I spent three years looking! They were an option from Kawasaki that is no longer available. The bags look great, pop on and off easily, and have plenty of room to store your stuff for a weekend getaway.Please feel free to email me with any questions.See below for an excerpt of what Motorcycle magazine had to say about the GPZ 1100 when they first tested it.Kawasaki has long been famous for making bikes with class-leading power: The first production motorcycle to rip down the quarter mile in under 11 seconds? GPz 750 Turbo (10.99 seconds in 1984). Fastest production bike made? The ZX-11. Their dominance dates back to the late 1960s and those evil handling two-strokes -- first came the 500cc H1 "Mach III," (12.4 seconds in the quarter mile) and the aptly nicknamed "widow-makers," the 750cc triple H2s.Later came a slew of powerful four-strokes, the 900cc inline-four Z1 and the big KZs, taken to prominence in the American roadracing series by the likes of Eddie Lawson and Wayne Rainey.The early 1980s saw the advent of the all-conquering GPz and in 1982, the KZ1000ELR, in commemoration of Eddie's 1981 Superbike Championship; 1984 saw the introduction of the Ninja, a name that has been synonymous with the term sportbike ever since.Enter the year 1995. By resurrecting the GPz name, Kawasaki hopes to lure those buyers who long for the glory days of yore when the motorcycle industry was in its hey-day, and horsepower was king. Of course, everyone conveniently forgets that, in the late 1970s and 80s, horsepower wasn't king and bikes were tuned for broad, usable powerbands.Displacement, real enthusiast would argue, was the name of the game back then. But we digress: The official model designation of the GPz1100 is ZX1100E, which immediately stirs up images of the GPz's big brother, the retina-melting ZX-11, yet the big surprise is that the GPz gets a de-tuned version of its famous brother's motor.Rather than bring back a straight-line missile in retro-guise, Kawasaki designed a bike that would capture the fun of 1980's motorcycling -- big torque across a wide powerband -- with modern-day sporting capabilities. And they've done an excellent job, building a bike that pinches pennies where it doesn't matter for street riders -- for instance, by using a steel backbone frame instead of a costly extruded aluminum twin-spar unit -- and delivers world-class torque in a package that includes excellent brakes and a comfortable riding position.The motor changes are aimed at making the GPz 1100 a "user-friendly" machine, with more low-end grunt and less top-end terror than the frighteningly fast ZX-11. The GPz does without the ZX's pressurized ram-air intake system -- necessary for that 180mph top-end rush, but ineffective for the rest of us that spend 99.9 percent of our time below 125 mph (you do spend most of your time below triple-digits, we hope).Other refinements include camshafts with less lift and duration, and 4mm smaller carburetors. Spent gasses exit through a four-into-two-into-two exhaust pipe -- claimed to boost midrange power without sacrificing too much top end. The result is an exceptionally smooth torque curve, and a near-linear rise in the horsepower curve."With loads of power down low -- enough to out-power the ZX-11 to 4400 rpm -- it gets out of corners quickly, and has tremendous top gear roll-on acceleration."
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