Description
14th Sep, 2024 10:00
The September 2024 Auction
1994 Kawasaki ZXR750 L
No Reserve - Good example of early superbike
Buyer's premium: 15. 00%
Lot details
Registration: L634DAT
Frame: JKAZXDL14RA022227
Odometer: 23, 026
750cc in-line four cylinder
Electric start
6-speed gearbox
Chain drive
Aftermarket exhaust
Launched into a world of fledgling World Superbike racers, the ZXR was Kawasaki’s mass-market version of Honda’s RC30 and Yamaha’s OW01. They were purpose-built race bikes adapted for the road, where the ZXR was a road bike with race ambitions. It was 20kg heavier than an RC30, made the same horsepower, but cost an awful lot less money (£5, 000 in 1989 compared to £9, 000 for an RC30 and £12, 000 for an OW01). If you measured your bikes by KG per £, the ZXR was a bargain and was pretty much affordable to any 23 year-old with a job, a permanent address and a half-decent credit score. The ZXR looked like a Bol D’or refugee, sounded like one too as the ‘Hoover tubes’ did an impression of one of those things you blow into and twirl around your head only with the air being sucked in at 11, 000rpm by a hungry 16v motor. 1993 was a great year for this legendary bike - a model update meant it got the motor from the previous year’s homologation bike (minus the close-ratio transmission and the flat slide carbs) and it was the first year of the ram-air intake!
This bike has come from a private collection along with a couple of other bikes and the vendor has owned it for the last 10 years. It currently has no MOT but has been started in the past few weeks and runs very well considering how little use it has had recently. It will require a few jobs doing and recommissioning to put it back on the road but this does appear to be an easy bike to get up and running.
