1000 Katana

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Do you not think they're trying to cash in a bit. Did Baza ever ride a Katana?

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The fella on the back looks a lot like Jimmy Greaves.

But where is his hand?

[Gregor]

If you want a 1000, knock your socks off, but it's not a katana.
Imo the big S dont make a decent looking big non sports bike.
When Suzuki US started using the katana moniker for the late model teapots, you knew they had little to offer punters.

They used it on a 50cc scoot too.

lulz ......my missus had one, excruciatingly slow, think she only rode it to work once.Me and the kids spent more time thrashing it round the back garden.

[Couchy]

I quite like them, ignoring the katana bit they look good

[McNab]

I think it would look a lot better if the bars were 3 inches forward and down, the front looks like two different bikes glued together.

When I was a kid, they were the fastest, coolest sports bike on the planet (well, in my mind). These ones look more like some sort of bastardisation between a sports bike and an adventure bike.

[ChrisW]

Great looking bike but the handlebars really do not suit it.

[Count Steer]

Great looking bike but the handlebars really do not suit it.

Hmm. I think the bars look fine and it's the drooping front end/headlight that looks wrong with them. On the pic with Barry S, the bars look similar but the front assembly is higher/closer to the bars. It seems to be the current fashion to have front ends that look like they're falling off.

Oh well, different strokes for different folks, the look seems to be popular.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

The original 1000/1100 Katanas have low clip ons, the new one has ape hangers by comparison.

[Count Steer]

The original 1000/1100 Katanas have low clip ons, the new one has ape hangers by comparison.

Wossat one the Barry S is on? They don't look clip on (but do have a downwards rake) - but the higher fairing may make them look higher than they are?

I think it's just that I look and think 'that looks like a comfy riding position'

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

The bars on that one look higher than I remember them being, but that bike also has fairing lowers, so could be different spec to the one I rode in 1988ish (so my memory of how low the bars were might well be wrong)

[Felix]

That silver one just looks like its a modern TDM. The green is gash but the blue does look rather nice

[demographic]

Doesn't look too bad but I feel that the Katana title is going the way that Ninja did for Kawasaki where every fucking thing got a Ninja title and it means fuckall because of it.

Q "What bike have you got then"

A "Its a Ninja"

"Oh, the 250?"

[KungFooBob]

Ninja's are cool, but are they Cowboy or Pirate cool?

Does a Katana even come close?

[Count Steer]

Ninja's are cool, but are they Cowboy or Pirate cool?

Does a Katana even come close?

Katana always makes me think of Lenny Henry

Then again 'Blackbird' doesn't exactly make much sense in an English country garden - nice birdies, eat worms, not very predatory (unless you're a worm).

Fazer? Phaser (on stun) would be better.

Hayabusa works

[Horse]

I think it would look a lot better if the bars were 3 inches forward and down, the front looks like two different bikes glued together.

Or ...

The front looks as if it's melting and has drooped.

[Yorick]

Ninja's are cool, but are they Cowboy or Pirate cool?

Does a Katana even come close?

Then again 'Blackbird' doesn't exactly make much sense in an English country garden - nice birdies, eat worms, not very predatory (unless you're a worm).

I assume you know the Hayabusa Vs Blackbird story ?

[Count Steer]

Ninja's are cool, but are they Cowboy or Pirate cool?

Does a Katana even come close?

Then again 'Blackbird' doesn't exactly make much sense in an English country garden - nice birdies, eat worms, not very predatory (unless you're a worm).

I assume you know the Hayabusa Vs Blackbird story ?

Yes indeedy. One kills and eats the other - hunter killer blackbirds?

[Skub]

I'd take a ZX12R before either of them,but in reality I don't want any of them.

[Demannu]

Ninja's are cool, but are they Cowboy or Pirate cool?

Does a Katana even come close?

Katana always makes me think of Lenny Henry

Then again 'Blackbird' doesn't exactly make much sense in an English country garden - nice birdies, eat worms, not very predatory (unless you're a worm).

Fazer? Phaser (on stun) would be better.

Hayabusa works

A couple of nerd points here
The 'Blackbird' was named after the SR71, not the feathered variety.
Yamaha had a Phazer, sadly a Dom mkt 250 with a 18k red line

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Sadly the Katana story was gen 1 Uber cool, gen 2 was funky, then it went out the window.
If anyone asks you what you ride and you say 'Busa', everybody nods sagely! Unsullied bloodlines work

[Bigyin]

So when are you getting it then ?

[Taipan]

I was never keen on the original, but I quite like that. Get it.