[TSwami]

Sean, The frame is a GSXR 400 and lots of custom work. The build thread is on another forum I'm on. Good read but kind of long at 73 pages. I've read them all, lots of cool info. Just skip around to the pictures.

http://www.customfighters.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24146&highlight=kwikasfaki

 

[jonh]

The split tail section and the headlight/upper fairing look very EX500 like do they not?

Agree, it's "very" EX/GPZ,ish. When you think about it though, the EX/GPZ came out around the same time. I I R C, the 1000rx was not in production long, only around two to three years, possibly 88/89 to 90/91. Not a bike i've had any dealing's with but a freind of mine had one in the mid 90's and had nothing but good thing's to say about it. All I can remember is, it was a damn sight faster than my 250, .

 

[Apriliarider]

Really, my point in posting that picture is that someone could conceivably utilize a set of plastics from one, with slight modifications to build a full fairing for the EX. It would appear, that aside from the extra mounting bracketry that would need to be fabricated for the lower half of the front fairing, a complete front set should mount straight up. Headlight is the same, mirror location looks the same too. I don't know if it would take much more than a few fabricated brackets to make such a fairing work. The lines would already flow together well....and for a first gen at least, you could just leave the tail section alone if you wanted. Just tossing out some ideas....I really wanna see someone go all in and do something like this....sean

 

[jonh]

Really, my point in posting that picture is that someone could conceivably utilize a set of plastics from one, with slight modifications to build a full fairing for the EX. It would appear, that aside from the extra mounting bracketry that would need to be fabricated for the lower half of the front fairing, a complete front set should mount straight up. Headlight is the same, mirror location looks the same too. I don't know if it would take much more than a few fabricated brackets to make such a fairing work. The lines would already flow together well....and for a first gen at least, you could just leave the tail section alone if you wanted. Just tossing out some ideas....I really wanna see someone go all in and do something like this....sean

Fully agree, with a little bit of modification it should not be to hard to fit those plastic's to the EX/GPZ. That being said, a reasonable set may be hard to find with the bike only having a short production run. But, someone, somewhere, will have a set, it would just be a case of hunting some out if you were determined to do the job.
I must admit, I've toy'ed with the idea of purchasing another cheap GPZ and grafting on a set of ZZR plastic's, something I might give more thought to for next winter's project,

 

[two_seater_twister]

should be close, Sean.

remember, I just pulled 1987 ZX600 fairing off my EX


IF I did a bit more work on the fairing stay, and sucked it up closer ( to remove that frame gap), it would have been VERY close to the fairing pictured above. K carried over a ton of crap, I was amazed that the mirrors, tail light, signals, and a few other odds and ends that are on the gen 1 came straight off the older zx6/ zx7 ( the 7 being donor to the EX headlight), so it shouldn't really be a hard mod at all.

The lower part of the fairing tho, does raise some concern. Even tho the lower on mine came off a 4 cyl bike, it would have rubbed and melted on stock exhaust, but a 2-1 allowed room.

Just food for thought...

 

[Apriliarider]

The bike I remember seeing in Japan was equipped with the same fairing as the one pictured. It was identical to the EX500s but a full fairing. Also, the frame was identical in appearance but with a 500 engine in it. Think of that GPZ1000RX shrunk down to EX500 size. Like a 7/8ths version of it. That would pretty much be the bike I saw. I've also seen several other models of EX500 around Tokyo. There is a ZRX500 running around over there too. Not simply an EX frame with the ZRX bodywork but a complete 7/8ths scale of the twin shock ZRX frame with an EX500 engine in it. I've seen the same EX models we have, the Gen I and Gen II along with both the bikes I've just described, along with a version without any fairing at all. No, not a naked EX500, but one with a round tube frame and a round headlight. Different tank too, but the same EX500 engine. I've seen them at different times in different places around Tokyo so there are definitely more than one of these things running around.......sean

 

[tokomiko]

I didn't see any pictures of a ZRX with a 500cc EX motor, saw a few ZXRR though. but the last bike you mentioned is the Kawasaki ER5, I think it's engine is tuned more like the EN500 Vulcan, there was a guy on these forums that had one.

 

[VICIOINA]

I didn't see any pictures of a ZRX with a 500cc EX motor, saw a few ZXRR though. but the last bike you mentioned is the Kawasaki ER5, I think it's engine is tuned more like the EN500 Vulcan, there was a guy on these forums that had one.

Now that is a good looking bike!

 

[Fender943]

Really, my point in posting that picture is that someone could conceivably utilize a set of plastics from one, with slight modifications to build a full fairing for the EX. It would appear, that aside from the extra mounting bracketry that would need to be fabricated for the lower half of the front fairing, a complete front set should mount straight up. Headlight is the same, mirror location looks the same too. I don't know if it would take much more than a few fabricated brackets to make such a fairing work. The lines would already flow together well....and for a first gen at least, you could just leave the tail section alone if you wanted. Just tossing out some ideas....I really wanna see someone go all in and do something like this....sean

I have an 86 Ninja 1000.. I could see if I could make the fairings work on the EX.

 

[Apriliarider]

I didn't see any pictures of a ZRX with a 500cc EX motor, saw a few ZXRR though. but the last bike you mentioned is the Kawasaki ER5, I think it's engine is tuned more like the EN500 Vulcan, there was a guy on these forums that had one.

Yep, that's the bike I remember. One of them anyway. There is a shop in Tokyo, near the airfield I used to fly into called Ricoland. It's a short version of Riders Community Land. ( http://ricoland.co.jp/ )The sign on the front of the building reads "Welcome to the paradise of Motorcycle Freaks"

Anyway, I saw quite a few Japanese Domestic Market bikes outside of this place. Half the parking lot is sectioned off for motorcycle parking only, and on weekends, it gets quite full. I saw a ZRX500 twin, a ZRX400 4cyl, a ZRX250 twin and ZRX600 there all on the same day. Different times but on the same day. Also, several other full fairing motorcycles that I didn't get a good enough look at to be able to tell you what they were exactly. Other than the fully faired ZX5R that I saw, and the only reason I knew that is because that's what the decals on the bodywork read. They were clear coated in so I'm sure it was factory....if it wasn't it was a perfect replica of factory work.

Here is a link to Ricoland, Tama which is the one I've been to: http://ricoland.co.jp/shopinfo/index.php?tenpo_code=181103&blog_id=2#
Scroll through the page.....if you can read kanjii you'll enjoy it. If not, you may still enjoy it. There are a few pictures on that page of the shop and some of the specials they're running. There are links to explore if you care to also....but navigating it without knowledge of kanjii is a kind of difficult.......sean

 

[AstroTerp]

Call me crazy but i'm really not digging some of these :-/

 

[Apriliarider]

Call me crazy but i'm really not digging some of these :-/

Okay, you're crazy, but remember, you asked for it! ;D

 

[jonno1962]

I've always liked the look of the two stroke KR1S, do you think the bodywork could be made to fit the GPZ500?

 

[Apriliarider]

I've always liked the look of the two stroke KR1S, do you think the bodywork could be made to fit the GPZ500?

I imagine so....but if I had my druthers I take an KR1S rolling chassis and install an EX500 engine in it. That would a better route. The KR1 chassis is so much less flexible and more race oriented. That twin beam frame is just what the EX500 engine needs for a better home. If you can get the bodywork though, that would be a start. I imagine you'd need to fab some mounting brackets for starters, and probably the headlight set up from the KR1 too. After that, it's just a matter of lining everything up so it looks like it belongs together......sean

 

[Rayycc1]

"Kwikasfaki"

I have fallen in love with that bike.

+1

 

[Twowheels]

Not truly custom but an interesting bike from Kawasaki.
http://www.kawasaki.eu/W800

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/N...m/MCN/News/newsresults/videos/2011/March/mar1811-video-kawasaki-w800-grouptest/

 

[gpzpaul]

Sean, The frame is a GSXR 400 and lots of custom work. The build thread is on another forum I'm on. Good read but kind of long at 73 pages. I've read them all, lots of cool info. Just skip around to the pictures.

http://www.customfighters.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24146&highlight=kwikasfaki

I read the hole post and i wish i had the now how to do this type of thing... I would just like to no where you would start on some think like this you must admit he must have big ball's and a deep pocket.

 

[BC500EX]

Not truly custom but an interesting bike from Kawasaki.
http://www.kawasaki.eu/W800

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/N...m/MCN/News/newsresults/videos/2011/March/mar1811-video-kawasaki-w800-grouptest/

Cool looking bike, I like the old ujms. I wouldn't be surprised if more
manufacturers started bringing them back.

 

[mcclain71]

Really, my point in posting that picture is that someone could conceivably utilize a set of plastics from one, with slight modifications to build a full fairing for the EX. It would appear, that aside from the extra mounting bracketry that would need to be fabricated for the lower half of the front fairing, a complete front set should mount straight up. Headlight is the same, mirror location looks the same too. I don't know if it would take much more than a few fabricated brackets to make such a fairing work. The lines would already flow together well....and for a first gen at least, you could just leave the tail section alone if you wanted. Just tossing out some ideas....I really wanna see someone go all in and do something like this....sean

I have an 86 Ninja 1000.. I could see if I could make the fairings work on the EX.

+1