Kawasaki Replica Eddie Lawson

Honda kawasaki and suzuki were crossing swords with high dollar factory teams and riders like wes cooley eddie lawson fred merkel and freddie spencer.

Kawasaki replica eddie lawson.

The 998cc inline four produced 79 horsepower in a bike that weighed 543 pounds. My 1983 kawasaki kz1000r 58 659 miles my last update was 2013 all new decals fresh paint i m original owner still running great doing some carb work and ins. Up for auction is a piece of history 1999 zrx1100 eddie lawson. Only 750 were built.

The eddie rep remains larger than life. The competition was intense reflecting the increasing prestige of the once disdained class. A limited edition tribute to eddie lawson just 750 examples of the kawasaki kz1000r elr eddie lawson replica were built between 1982 and 1983. During his superbike career lawson raced rob muzzy tuned kawasakis.

The eddie lawson replica elr kawasaki kz1000r was the same as the base model kz1000r but with a special kerker exhaust adjustable rear suspension and striking green paint job to replicate the one eddie lawson rode. The eddie lawson replica. The boxy purposeful 1983 kawasaki kz1000r eddie lawson replica is one of those machines that elicits reverent guttural grunts from the most jaded superbike fans connected as it is to american roadracing history. To commemorate lawson and muzzy s championship 1981 season kawasaki built fewer than a thousand of what it called the most performance ready street legal superbike ever in the form of the 1982 kawasaki kz1000r eddie lawson replica.

Posted over 1 month. Other 1999 kawasaki zrx 1100 eddie lawson replica. With the exception of subpar rear shocks the press and the public loved this bike and how aggressively it was set up. Kawasaki was justifiably proud of its star rider and in late 1982 came out with a performance street bike with superbike styling the kz1000r eddie lawson replica elr a bright green street version of lawson s bright green 1981 1982 superbike.

It is an evolution of the zrx1100 a stylized replica of the eddie lawson replica kz1000r sold in 1982 a motorcycle made famous by the superbike racing champion of the same name. Model category sport bikes. Before lawson flew the flag on the 500cc world championship stage he won back to back ama superbike titles in 81 and 82 aboard a wild kermit green and royal blue kz1000.