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BarryB
 Post subject: Re: W800
PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 1:38 pm 
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FloridaSteve wrote:
Beautiful bike. And it's a more "authentic" looking classic than the new Bonneville.


Very nice - I'd like to have one.

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Ric
 Post subject: Re: W800
PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:29 pm 
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BarryB wrote:
FloridaSteve wrote:
Beautiful bike. And it's a more "authentic" looking classic than the new Bonneville.


Very nice - I'd like to have one.


To bad they took away the kicker.....

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garyclem
 Post subject: Re: W800
PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:08 pm 
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Ric wrote:
To bad they took away the kicker.....


+1 yeah, I work at a Kawasaki dealership and just about everyone who comes in to look at the bike laments :cry: the loss of the kicker. The bike could have been even better if Kawasaki kept a kick start on this new 'old' bike if only for the nostalgia 8-) .

Having said that ........ when I ride to work on my H2 and park it in the shop, the kids coming in to buy the Ninja 250s etc often times ask me what the kicker start pedal on the H2 is ........ :?:

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oxford
 Post subject: Re: W800
PostPosted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 7:11 pm 
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I'd ride one of those. Isn't there also a cafe version of that bike like the thruxton? I remember seeing some pics a while back, but am not sure if it was factory of not.
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Ric
 Post subject: Re: W800
PostPosted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 8:30 pm 
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oxford wrote:
I'd ride one of those. Isn't there also a cafe version of that bike like the thruxton? I remember seeing some pics a while back, but am not sure if it was factory of not.


I don't think so...not by Kawasaki anyway. I could be wrong. I am after all pretty stoooopid.

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ståle
 Post subject: Re: W800
PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 5:10 am 
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oxford wrote:
I'd ride one of those. Isn't there also a cafe version of that bike like the thruxton? I remember seeing some pics a while back, but am not sure if it was factory of not.


Unfortunately not. I was hoping they'd make the 800 a little "sportier"
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olde coney
 Post subject: Re: W800
PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 2:46 am 
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1961 Norton 99 SS (I wasrecently told about these by another Triples member) .....oooooooooohhh luverly bike

Deffo on my wish list :thumbup:

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Jim C
 Post subject: Re: W800
PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 1:15 pm 
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This Japanese brochure will really make you want one (assuming you like old school / new bikes)
Stupid Kawasaki; it would be the only new bike they make that I would actually buy; wonder what they would cost in dollars?

http://cgi.ebay.com/2011-NEW-KAWASAKI-W ... 3a67808d9f

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