{"id":11530,"date":"2013-10-01T13:09:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T18:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=11530"},"modified":"2019-04-09T08:24:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T13:24:26","slug":"kz1000r-s1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2013\/10\/kz1000r-s1\/","title":{"rendered":"kz1000r &#8211; S1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*** Sold for $107,000<\/p>\n<p>I saw this one on ebay and pretty much got a half dolphin.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a kz1000r &#8211; S1 &#8211; which was 1 of 29 made for AMA superbike racing.<\/p>\n<p>I try not to make posts that involve stuff from outside sources like ebay etc&#8230;<br \/>\nBut this was too good to pass up.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows what an early 80&#8217;s kz1000r is?<\/p>\n<p>The z1, kz900, kz1000 are all basically the exact same bike.<br \/>\nSame frame, engine, power etc etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"before-list\">I&#8217;m a big fan of analogies&#8230; here are a couple.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In high school I had an acura integra. the holy grail of the integra was an <a href=\"http:\/\/fc04.deviantart.net\/fs71\/i\/2011\/085\/6\/b\/honda_integra_type_r___95_by_hayw1r3-d3chq10.jpg\">integra type R<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>or&#8230; if you played football&#8230; you probably liked mustangs. the holy grail of mustangs was the <a href=\"http:\/\/assets.hemmings.com\/uimage\/17958842-770-0.jpg?rev=1\">mustang cobra R<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, long story short, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kz1000r.com\">kz1000r<\/a> is the holy grail of the z1\/kz platform.<br \/>\nEddie Lawson was the kawi factory racer at that time, and the kz1000r was basically a replica of his race bike.<\/p>\n<p>So sick. So far it&#8217;s bid up to $67K which is pretty nuts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-01-at-1.42.55-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-01-at-1.42.55-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-10-01 at 1.42.55 PM\" width=\"793\" height=\"523\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-01-at-1.42.55-PM.png 793w, https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-01-at-1.42.55-PM-500x329.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-01-at-1.43.07-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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794px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-01-at-1.44.30-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-01-at-1.44.30-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-10-01 at 1.44.30 PM\" width=\"796\" height=\"531\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-01-at-1.44.30-PM.png 796w, https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-01-at-1.44.30-PM-500x333.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-01-at-1.44.41-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-01-at-1.44.41-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-10-01 at 1.44.41 PM\" width=\"798\" height=\"511\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-01-at-1.44.41-PM.png 798w, https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-01-at-1.44.41-PM-500x320.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-01-at-1.44.57-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-01-at-1.44.57-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-10-01 at 1.44.57 PM\" width=\"636\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11541\" 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901px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Enlarge the below image of text to read description of the bike.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-01-at-1.45.41-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-01-at-1.45.41-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-10-01 at 1.45.41 PM\" width=\"1186\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-01-at-1.45.41-PM.png 1186w, https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-01-at-1.45.41-PM-500x105.png 500w, https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-01-at-1.45.41-PM-1024x215.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1186px) 100vw, 1186px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Random kz1000r vid below. (not the bike sold in the ebay post)<\/p>\n<figure>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0j1ZeRZ92SE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*** Sold for $107,000 I saw this one on ebay and pretty much got a half dolphin. It&#8217;s a kz1000r &#8211; S1 &#8211; which was 1 of 29 made for AMA superbike racing. I try not to make posts that involve stuff from outside sources like ebay etc&#8230; But this was too good to pass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[223,237],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11530"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21104,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530\/revisions\/21104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}