Sold.

* Last updated by: extrapolator on 5/8/2026 @ 7:27 PM *

Damn, you take some awesome pictures!!
The bike looks great!
Good luck with the sale.
Hank

Thanks, Hank ... 'preciate it

Friggin-A, I'd have come down there with ten Gs to grab that off you a couple years ago.

I'd prefer if you kept the bike and stayed with us extrap. ...or sell the bike and stay with us, whatever you ride after this. I'm not married to kawasaki, I'm still staying right here. We're not a large group but we're a special group.

Hey wait....I need a Gen2 for my turbo project. Not shitting you, I'm about to pay off the new hayabusa but I need a used Gen2 for the turbo project. Have about what you're asking in the bank account after the busa. All seriousness, let's talk. Your price sounds very fair.

...you want to buy her back, you come to Upper Michigan with a trailer. If I haven't started the turbo install (which would likely be a year from now), you can have her back. Probably a couple hundred miles on the bike at most. I rode a lot with two bikes and they each accumulated 500 miles a year. Now, I'd have four.

* Last updated by: Rook on 4/20/2026 @ 7:09 PM *

Hey Rook - You're a turbo-crazed mad man! I love it! I can't imagine this bike being even faster, but I bet it's maniacal! Anyway, while I am selling 'er, this forum is a great, smaller group of good, helpful guys without drama, which I surely appreciate (try the late model Corvette C6 / C7 forums if you care to see some A-hole interactions!), so I'm def not leaving: I still check in here fairly regularly even when I don't need anything or have much to say, which is the same as I do on several other bike forums: RC51 (the bike I had before the ZX, sold it waaay back); Kawi Concours; Yamaha FJR ... all good forums with good guys so I like checking in. Plus, I'm now riding a Ducati Diavel V4, so it's not like I've hung up my helmet

* Last updated by: extrapolator on 4/30/2026 @ 3:59 PM *

Dammit, I swear people selling their 14s have an agreement between them to rebuff my accepting their asking price! Second 14 now, lytnin won't sell either. Your price is good and we know you're trustworthy. That's worth a lot. Best of luck on the sale (or maybe you keep it). If things don't go snappy for you, I'll be there with a cashier's check in four days. Hell, I'll mail you the check and you keep the bike a couple more months. ...just don't ride it too much. Also, if you want the bike back and you will hustle your ass up here, I'll sell it back for the same price as long as I haven't started the turbo process. ...and I'm broke after buying this and the busa so it's eight-ten months before I start any turboing.

That's a really cool Ducati. I'd like to own one someday but with the other bikees and projects I have at the forefront, I might never do that. I guess it depends on how long I live!

Rook, I've been up to Detroit several times the past couple years for Ford GT related work and events, including staying at the Kingsley in Bloomfield Hills twice for the Woodward Dream Cruise. What area are you?

* Last updated by: extrapolator on 4/21/2026 @ 3:28 PM *

Iron Mountain, MI. Upper Peninsula. Just across the northeast border of Wisconsin.

Got it - When I was ~15, just started working at my dad's communications engineering firm, as a draftsman (prob no such thing anymore), I remember seeing maps, exhibits and documents for a point-to-point two-way wireless communications system design job the company did for Northern Michigan University, and I def remember that Iron Mountain was one of the sites. Escanaba being another.

Anyway, does this make you a "Yooper"? (or however you spell it)

YES indeed, I'm a Yooper, born and bred!