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Post edited by: kwakagoose, at: 2007/09/01 21:48

650ed wrote:

kawsakiman,

16 valve Suzukis (Katanas) came out a couple years later. Wes Cooley replicas had 8 valves. Ed

my friends is a 81 gs1100e 16 valve.
it will beat up on a stock kz and a 1075 with stock cams.
it has no engine mods, just a header pipe, jetting and pods.
they were quick as hell. that is why i have a 1261.
look i love my kz's but i am also smart enough to know when i'm out classed.

give me a month and then he'll see the power of a kawasaki.

then i'll tell him that his suzuki must be fast because he was hauling ass when i passed him on my kawasaki!

I have 2 Wes Cooley Replica's both are 1979 GS1000S. One Red and one Blue. There 535 built for import to the US in 79-80. I've ridden both the KZ and the GS 1000's. Very equal bikes. They just have different tendancies and power in different RPM's.

Richard Z.

Yea really

austin3119 wrote:

arai60 wrote:

Oh yeah, one other thing........a stock GS1000S could kick a KZ1000's ass all day long.<br><br>Post edited by: arai60, at: 2007/08/31 23:10

Only if you were riding the KZ1000.<br><br>Post edited by: austin3119, at: 2007/09/01 11:36

why are the 'zuki's so cheap? im on ebay looking at them and theyre half the price of the kz's!

I was just being funny guys. Never raced a gs1000 or ridden one.

i remember hotrodding around on my 1st z1 when i got my license(we wont talk about before my license! )anyway 16 year old 5 10 120 wheelie riding fool around 1981 thinking i was king of the mountain;) when i tied into a gs750 suzuki and had a hell of a time holding him off! those old suzukis run,they are ugly as sin but they run hard if you can keep them together!had an 82 gs1100 back in the late 80s with a black yosh pipe.damn thing was as long as a freight train,and handed about the same! left rear jacked up and lowered front way down just so you could take a corner:S broke the crank messing with a guy on an old kaw.when suzuki came out with their performance over all ad campaign they werent kidding,apearance was way down on the list especially the 1100 katana:sick:

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No worries mates..........just stating the facts. For those who remember that era. Both bikes were awesome but Suzuki pulled ahead and raised the bars of performance. Not to mention that Wes Cooley could ride the wheels off of any bike. Just like to give credit for what was what.

GPz750KS wrote:

I have 2 Wes Cooley Replica's both are 1979 GS1000S. One Red and one Blue. There 535 built for import to the US in 79-80. I've ridden both the KZ and the GS 1000's. Very equal bikes. They just have different tendancies and power in different RPM's.

Richard Z.

Thank you ! I knew there were a limited few built. And you are truly fortunate to own 2 of these machines. Great post !

cottoncandyninja wrote:

why are the 'zuki's so cheap? im on ebay looking at them and theyre half the price of the kz's!

The market never developed to that extent that it did for the older Z's...the GS people are also prominent on the web and have a big support group, like KZ. If you want to collect big-bore bikes that are affordable, try Suzukis.

is it this site?


www.thegsresources.com/

forgive me my kz brothers, its just the 1000's are so expensive i cant get my mits on one around here. but the suzukis on the other hand. i just want cheap 1000cc power. theres no doubt in my mind though that the old late seventies kz's are the best looking, ducktails and all. unless i can find a nice big kz during the winter i think ill turn my attention towards the cheap suzuki counterpart, the gs.