Kawasaki Z1000
The 2010 Z1000 is the most impressive sports naked ever to roll out of Japan. It has excellent performance, handling and is super-stylish to boot. It’s less intimidating and easier to ride than a fire-breathing European super naked too. For the first time the Z1000 gets a superbike-style aluminium twin spar frame, using the engine as a stressed member. The five-piece die-cast aluminium construction frame is 3-4kg lighter than the old tubular steel/cast ali mix frame, with torsional rigidity increased by 30%. It runs over the top of the engine, ZX-10R-style to keep the Z1000 nice and slim. The old steel subframe makes way for a lightweight aluminium item. The riding position is spacious, comfortable and friendly. Handling is predictable and the Z1000 can be hustled around with the best of them. The bike is equipped with radial brakes, fully adjustable forks, a shock adjustable for preload and rebound damping, sexy ‘quad’ exhaust cans and a three-way tilt-adjustable dash.
NORTON F1
The World’s only rotary-engined super bike was expected to be hyper expensive but went like blazes. Unlike a conventional piston driven engine, the F1’s rotary unit had no reciprocating mass and produced its 100(or so) horsepower in a completely linear fashion. British rider Trevor Nation won a few races on the F1, but the bike was never sold to the pubic due to various problems with the engine, which Norton never had the money to sort out, if only the British company had Honda’s financial muscle, the world of very fast motorcycle might have been a different place today. Have a look at the spec,
Engine: Liquid pressure cooled twin-rotor rotary
Displacement: 588cc
Compression ratio: 9.2:1
Carburation: Twin amal smoothbores
Ignition: Norton “hall effect” triggered capacitor discharge
Gearbox: Five speed, constant mesh
Clutch: 20 plate clutch using sintered bronze friction plates and diaphragm spring
Power Output: More than 135 bhp at 9,800 rpm at shaft
Maximum torque: 77 lbs / ft at 8,000 rpm
Frame: Spondon twin spar aluminium
Brakes: Twin 320 mm front discs with four piston Lockheed calipers. Single 220 mm rear disc with twin piston Brembo caliper
Wheels: 3.5 x 17 three-spoke magnesium Dymag front wheel. 5.5 x 18 three-spoke magnesium rear wheel
Tyres: Dunlop radials
Weight: Less than 145 kgs
MOTO GUZZI
The New Moto Guzzi Griso 1100 wonderfully embodies the European-style custom motorcycle. Squat and very long but with a riding position typical of a roadster, this motorcycle aims to be as well adapted to cruising on the motorway as to sharper riding on winding little roads, or just a ride around town. The impressive upside-down fork and rear shock absorber are both fully adjustable. DElivering 88 bhp, the engine clearly retains the traditional Moto Guzzi architecture (longitudinal 90–degree V twin) but the gearbox and shaft drive notably has been completely redesigned while the electronic fuel injection helps it make through the Euro-3 norms.
BMW super bike
When we speak about BMW, bikes are most daring outcomes. Each version of BMW bike has a different and unique style. Most peopllove to own a BMW bike. When we were searching the web we found the latest release of BMW S1000 RR. Its a 999 CC bike and weighs about 407 pounds. It is one of the expensive bikes and costs 13,800 US dollars. It is gigantic with a cool allien look that is obsolutely attractive. It is rated as one of the best race bikes of 1000 CC and best of super
Norton Commando
The 750 and 850 commandos were the first bikes Norton developed, after tying up with the Villiers engine company in the late 1960s. Powered by air cooled twin engine, the commando 850 was the very epitome of cool in 1960s and 70s. Unlike modern superbikes, this one is not about sheer horse power or handling prowess. The modest power outputs, still-developing chassis technology and average tyre performance of those days sees to that. But the achingly beautiful commando was, and remains to this day, hugely charismatic. Both Triumph’s and Norton’s vertical twins became vibration factories in their own right as they grew from 500cc to 650, then 750. The stroke of brilliance in Norton’s case was to isolate the engine vibrations by mounting the power plant in flexible mounts, hanging from what was then a massive two-and-a-quarter-inch top tube. Even the Triumph Bonneville, another wonderful British motorcycle from the 1960s is not quite as desirable as the commando.