Thread: Which Bike ??

Originally Posted by Shearer

I owned an RG500 gamma for about 7 years. Absolute blast to ride.
Then came children and a mortgage.....
Now both have gone and it's a Z1000 and a KLE 500

Mate you can still hold your head high with both those bikes. I had a ZIR years ago and sold it to buy a Z1000 turbo ( 78 model ). The turbo was insane, some crazy mechanical genius built it. Wisco low compression pistons, Ape clutch , no wastegate and boosting over 30 psi when wide open. Thing used to go that fast that the front end would start to lift over 160mph , saw 190 mph one day with the needle still creeping up, evil and wicked. Cold winter days were the best when the air was cool and dense , crack it open and it felt like God had just picked you up and thrown you down the highway the acceleration was so brutal.
I added water injection , fuel pump off a GT mini 1275 cause it couldn't get enough gas under heavy boost, it was a combination of mechanical wizardry and a healthy dose of insanity .