Really Nice 1300 on eBay

If you like touring, this 1980 KZ1300 (dressed) looks real sweet... see it at eBay auction: 370104287543

Very nice road runner!! Real solid looking bike. Why does the left side sidecover look to be 2 pieces or stepped? Or is it just a flaw in the pin striping?

Very nice bike for no more than 3K. They've set a "Buy it Now Price" of $4,900.00!!! They may be a museum, but they be dreamin!!!!

The bike's in pretty nice shape but it's obviously been detailed. Check out the rusted fasteners, it's hardly a museum piece.

It'd still waste any goldwing, hands down.

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i just looked at that bike and i'm impressed it looks pretty good i've been looking for one for along time to bad i don't live down south or it would have a new home. by the way that panel is hinged there for access to the seat lock.

These bikes were only made for a couple of years to compete with Honda's CBX.

You'd think they'd do some research :dry:

Or maybe they consider 1981-1988 a "couple years".

I think they were built to compete with the Gold Wings, not the CBX.

Has factory Kawasaki Vetter fairing and bags

Craig Vetter disagrees

steell wrote:

Has factory Kawasaki Vetter fairing and bags

Craig Vetter disagrees [/quote]

Not sure why you said that. I thought Craig did do fairings for Kawasaki. I think I have even seen a badge that says "Vetter for Kawasaki" "Kawasaki by Vetter" or something like that. Is it that the fairing wasn't made at the Kaw factory just installed there? Just curious...:huh:

there's another one one ebay right now.

$4,900.00



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Looks like that is the first time it has been stored indoors , most of the fasteners are all rust. pretty beat up for that BIN.

Even zinc plated fasteners will rust after 30 years. Its the price of owning an older bike. As for the side cover, the corner hinges to gain access to the seat lock. The bags/fairing on the 1300 are Vetter made for Kaw.

many many years "1989-91" ago i was the only guy in my area "brooklyn" that ran a turbo'd kz i would show up at bike hangouts and usually be on the only kz let alone turbo'd,i had beat on just about every new crotchrocket that was around back then and it was gettin hard to get sum one to run for $$ but one bikenite while shootin the shit with sum others a guy rolled in on a lowered down kz1300 no paint just primer runnin a turbo sounded/looked mean the guy to me was "old" all of around 50 i was 19 lol
it did'nt take long and we were lineing them up for a 75$ run which was actually alot of $$ back then,i jumped him out of the hole by about two lengths and was runnin away from him so i thought, by about an 1/8 he now was beatin me by about a length+ the next thing i knew i was gettin hit in the face shield with what i thought was rain and watching him/his bike swerve allover the street and finally he side swiped a parked car! i blew past him and circled back to find out one of the oil feed lines to his turbo blew and sprayed oil allover his rear tire and me lol,i knew he would have beaten me had the oil not got allover his tire but i still took the 75buks,if i could do it allover i would not have taken the 75$,well thats my kz1300 story i never ran into him again "very happy" or any other kz1300,i think they are real kool bikes when stripped down.

here is one near Green Bay, picture is horrible, but if i was in the market for a six-cylinder this more in my price range.
greenbay.craigslist.org/mcy/899261287.html

As for the fairing, does that really look like a Vetter Vindicator fairing to you? The only difference between the Vindicator and the Windjammer is the turn signals.

About Vetter fairings: Vetter Corporation made Windjammer and Vindicator fairings. In addition, the company made fairings for Kawasaki which were essentially Vindicator fairings. All these fairings accept the same windshield, the same lowers and will fit on any Vetter hardware. All Windjammer/ Vindicator/ Kawasaki fairings were the essentially same... only the hardware was different for different bikes

www.craigvetter.com/pages/Vetter_Fairing...ability_of_part.html


If you are familiar with the real Vetter fairings, go to the parts diagrams at kawasaki.com and look under 1980 1290cc and find the KZ1300B2, then go look at the fairing that is pictured there. It looks nothing like a Vetter fairing, I think that was the first Kawasaki by Kawasaki fairing

Vetter wasn't the only one making barn door fairings, Pacifico and Luftmeister made them also.


Personally, I think the 1980 KZ1300B2 fairing is much better looking than the Vetter fairings

By the way, since there is a 1980 KZ1300B2, why doesn't Kawasaki.com list a KZ1300B1 ???

I believe the saddlebags are Vetter, but obviously not the fairing, and in further support of my argument I present KZ1300.com

www.kz1300.com/parts/kz1300-fairings-saddlebags.html