Maybe I'll hold off on the cliff for a bit...

[toocrazy2yoo]

This is a little more like it.




2009 Motorcycle of the Year
Best Touring Bike

Kawasaki Concours 14
Maybe you absolutely have to get from the Santa Monica Pier to Seattle's Pike Place Fish Market overnight. Maybe it's the pure, twisted joy of covering 1137 miles in 17 hours. Either way, the Concours 14 is still an affordable version of Kawasaki's 186-mph 700 Series bullet train: infinitely easier to park, more fun through the twisty bits and it still corners on rails. Essentially a more comfortable ZX-14 with removable hard bags, optional ABS and adjustable wind protection, the Concours puts an honest 150 horsepower to the pavement with a shaft-drive system that keeps all that power from pushing the chassis around. That's muscle enough to dispatch slow-moving traffic in 2 seconds, or cover a quarter-mile in 10.52 at 130.5 mph. Either way, accurate fuel delivery equals seamless acceleration. And the Concours' slipper clutch makes your next corner entry just as smooth.

[Evil_Weasel]

a slipper clutch...really?

[toocrazy2yoo]

a slipper clutch...really?

I guess. It's there. I dunno how I'd ever get into a situation to use it, but I guess if a peep was headed into a hook in the road and snicked down one more gears than he/she thought, at least you ain't gonna lock the rear wheel with a gear-change. After all, who looks at the gear indicator when things get busy?

[butcher bergs]

Get it up to 100mph, jam some down shifts and let us know how it turned out.

[zgr]

works great if you use it but I am about to pull the fuse on the ABS system
don't use the bags either

[toocrazy2yoo]

Get it up to 100mph, jam some down shifts and let us know how it turned out.

You got it, Bergs..

In winter, I'm gonna go out in the ice and lay on full front and (Doc's gonna love THIS) rear brakes and just see what this ABS nonsense is all about....

I'll be sure to lay a full report on ya

[toocrazy2yoo]

works great if you use it but I am about to pull the fuse on the ABS system don't use the bags either

Yeah, but I'm an old fuckah, the bags are handy when doin' distance. And you're bagging the ABS why?

[kb1]

I've always liked the Kawi, but when I buy a sport-tourer it will be an ST1300 most likely. I rode one once and now I'm addicted.

[KillBill]

If and when i buy a sport-tourer this would be at the
top of my list.