My 1985 Ninja 600R...

[Land Shark]

This is a pic of me and my second street bike, a 1985 Ninja 600R, shortly after it was drop-shipped to my driveway in it's shipping crate. I was 18-1/2 years old, and this was in Anchorage, Alaska, and there was a total of about 3,300 Ninja 600R bikes sold in the USA so it would be homologized for AMA racing. I bought the last one that was available when a Kawasaki dealer decided to only sponsor one racer for the season instead of two, so the bike was put back on the market. I had a dealer calling all over America to see if one was still available, and he found it. There was around 2500 Kawasaki dealers in USA back then and each shop got one bike, unless they were sponsoring a racer to ride a 600R, and then they would get two Ninja 600R's.
I had to do all the final assembly & prep work for it.
I sure miss that bike! *I once got radar'd by a state trooper while doing 153mph... Ooops!
(my first streetbike was a 1982 GPz 550 that I bought in 1984, and I'd been riding dirt bikes since 1971)
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[Hippo-Drones]

This is a pic of me and my second street bike, a 1985 Ninja 600R, shortly after it was drop-shipped to my driveway in it's shipping crate. I was 18-1/2 years old, and this was in Anchorage, Alaska, and there was a total of about 3,300 Ninja 600R bikes sold in the USA so it would be homologized for AMA racing. I bought the last one that was available when a Kawasaki dealer decided to only sponsor one racer for the season instead of two, so the bike was put back on the market. I had a dealer calling all over America to see if one was still available, and he found it. There was around 2500 Kawasaki dealers in USA back then and each shop got one bike, unless they were sponsoring a racer to ride a 600R, and then they would get two Ninja 600R's.
I had to do all the final assembly & prep work for it.
I sure miss that bike!
(my first streetbike was a 1982 GPz 550 that I bought in 1984, and I'd been riding dirt bike since 1971)
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Cor, I bet that was quite a machine

 

[Land Shark]

Cor, I bet that was quite a machine

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It sure was! And it was comparable in performance to modern 600 supersports, although primative by todays standards.
And no ABS, TC, fuel injection or rev-limiter (I could take it 1k past redline and it would still accelerate)