What Bike Am I Thinking Of?

[Robb F]

I'm just window shopping for things to buy and wanted to look up this bike but then realised I have no idea what it actually is. Scrolling through the classifieds hasn't helped so maybe they're now rare or I've completely misremembered it.

I'm fairly certain it was a Kawasaki, supersport type bike. The front had two curved bars emerging from behind the headlight, they were somewhat the 'feature' of the bike.
I think it had one big headlight, and somewhere on the front had a group of small dimples (or holes). It was probably new in the late 80's to early 90's.

Hopefully this rubbish description will let someone guess it!

[Andybow]

Zxr750 by the sounds of it

[BuzzBravado]

The feature you are talking about must be the air ducts, meaning zxr750 or Zx7r.

[JimbobVFR]

Agreed but it's twin round head lights not a single.

[the cueball]

early ZX6-R had single headlight and thin support bars from the front cowl...

Think it was used up to the 2002 model?

[Greggy69]

Could it be the later ZXR400? That still had the ducting but replaced twin lights with a single lamp.

[Baldchap]

The ZXR400 L had square light and fake air ducts.

[toasty]

Sounds a bit like my old blade (CBR900RRRX).

Bars behind headlight. Twin headlight in single enclosure. Dimples/holes. Just not a Kawasaki.

[Baldchap]

[NITO]

Going by the dimples, I'm saying Fireblade

[Robb F]

It entirely possible my memory has merged two bike together! The dimples must have been from the fireblade it seems.

ZXR750 is the closest to how I remember it, but I seem to remember the ducts running parallel to the floor rather than up and over. Again, could just be me misremembering.

[NITO]

ZXR750 with horizontal duct...all the 750's were twin headlight though...



Or ZX7R maybe?

[PTF]

NITO said:

ooofff that's lovely.

[WinstonWolf]

Gotta be a Hoover tube ZXR of some derivative.

[Greggy69]

Robb F said:

I seem to remember the ducts running parallel to the floor rather than up and over. Again, could just be me misremembering.

Ok its not a Kawasaki but how about the Fireblade Evo?

[NITO]

I’ve never even seen a fireblade evo, I did wonder about an SB8 Bimota. Learn something new everyday!

SB8 Bimota


There’s also NR750

Edited by NITO on Thursday 26th September 21:57

[Robb F]

Thanks everyone! I'm 99% sure it was a ZXR750 I was thinking of and the years have merged other features into the memory (dimples and single headlight for example)

It's a shame the ducting went out of fashion, I think it looks great.

[Baldchap]

On the 400 (I put a photo of above), the pipes literally go to the top of the petrol tank and do nothing.

Gotta love the 90s.