Author Topic: B-King (Read 7707 times)

solman · « **on:** December 08, 2006, 11:02:58 PM »

I figured out on why the new bandit didn't get the Busa motor and better upgrades. I was just reading in the Motorcyclist magazine that the B-King is coming out in Mid-07. The B-King is getting the Busa motor, inverted forks, braced swingarm, etc. Should be interesting to see how it pans out.

Sven · « **Reply #1 on:** December 09, 2006, 12:19:10 AM »

But it's such a freakin' weird looking bike. Like it was assembled out of parts from many bikes. Frankenstein's Motorcycle.

Desolation Angel · « **Reply #2 on:** December 09, 2006, 12:30:33 AM »

Quote from: "Sven"

But it's such a freakin' weird looking bike. Like it was assembled out of parts from many bikes. Frankenstein's Motorcycle.

You're sayin' the other Jap bikes don't look weird? Have you been in a showroom lately?

interfuse · « **Reply #3 on:** December 09, 2006, 12:56:25 AM »

I like it. I like it a lot.

Sven · « **Reply #4 on:** December 09, 2006, 01:49:42 AM »

Quote from: "Desolation Angel"

You're sayin' the other Jap bikes don't look weird? Have you been in a showroom lately?

Sure! As we previously digested, the Suzi M109 is fat, with a cowling on the headlamp that reminds me of the Alien's head. (And that bike is strangley popular with the Black community in this area.) But some riceburners look great.

Desolation Angel · « **Reply #5 on:** December 09, 2006, 09:14:15 AM »

Quote from: "Sven"

Quote from: "Desolation Angel"
You're sayin' the other Jap bikes don't look weird? Have you been in a showroom lately?

Sure! As we previously digested, the Suzi M109 is fat, with a cowling on the headlamp that reminds me of the Alien's head. (And that bike is strangley popular with the Black community in this area.) But some riceburners look great.

You know, as cruisers go, I really like the looks of that bike, except the headlight cowling. I wonder how big of a deal it would be to replace it with a normal headlight. Probably not worth it $-wise.

Just from my point of view, here is what an attractive normal bike should look like (give or take a styling cue or two) ...

Normal

But here is what you get in the showrooms now (not that I wouldn't take one) ...

Abnormal

Both nice bikes, but one funky, one not.

It will be interesting to see, soon, which bike amongst the various brands takes the place of Bandits function-wise once Bandits aren't produced anymore.

Happy Saturday!

Sven · « **Reply #6 on:** December 09, 2006, 11:00:37 AM »

Herb, I think your problem is that you're a "man out of time". (Or just really old?) Your "normal" is an old-fashioned standard, which is sort of my 'mental picture" of a motorcycle, but there are only a few models like that out there any more. Your "abnormal" is pretty much what's out there if you're not talking "cruiser", only maybe not as much plastic-wrapping as many models have. But if that's your "abnormal", than the B-King is "ultra-abnormal".

2005B12S · « **Reply #7 on:** December 09, 2006, 11:13:45 AM »

I am with you on the overstyled, futurestic, plastic looking pieces of cr@p now in the showrooms.

Really like the ZRX1200, other than it being a Kawasaki

ant_129 · « **Reply #8 on:** December 09, 2006, 11:58:55 AM »

I am with interfuse. I like it alot. To me the ZRX1200 looks dated.

ttewejnodnarb · « **Reply #9 on:** December 09, 2006, 12:30:47 PM »

I think it's nice that we get a choice...wish we had more of one, like in europe. Personally, even though I might not like EVERY new design, I do like to see progress.

EDIT: ...and by choice I mean bikes with retro styling like the Triumph Scrambler and Ducati Sport as well as "futuristic" bikes (that sounds a little too Buck Rogers but you get the point).

Asphalt · « **Reply #10 on:** December 09, 2006, 03:11:05 PM »

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sven:But it's such a freakin' weird looking bike. Like it was assembled out of parts from many bikes

Uh wasn't the bandit a franken bike?

mothman · « **Reply #11 on:** December 09, 2006, 04:33:18 PM »

It all comes from the 1983 CB1100F. See...

Check this out...

Bazza · « **Reply #12 on:** December 10, 2006, 04:35:12 AM »

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I am with interfuse. I like it alot. To me the ZRX1200 looks dated.

The Zed is Dead! Kawasaki is not making it anymore, kaput, discontinued this year.

solman · « **Reply #13 on:** December 10, 2006, 05:31:40 AM »

If the ZRX was made by anyone else, I probably would've bought that instead.

H2RICK · « **Reply #14 on:** December 11, 2006, 12:21:14 AM »

Ya know, I looked VERY hard at the Zrex and if they had offered it in Canada in the half-faired "S" version like they did in the UK/Europe....well, who knows what I would have ended up with. Kawasaki has built (and continues to build) some great bikes. Hopefully their camshaft problems are in the past now because that's the only thing that made me nervous about their bikes.....