I had some Muzzy pipes and systems back in the day. I always liked them and thought highly of them. Too bad it’s a brand that died.
All comes down to geometry. Also going to need correct spring rates. Set up correctly, they handle very well. Lots of flex in the entire design...that gets exposed big time when you start putting slicks and good suspension on them...then you get to deal with a whole slew of new issues. lol
That's why I gave up on my first gen FZ1. I put a shock and R1 forks on it just to find out that the chassis was a wet noodle when you leaned on it.
It just occurred to me that the old Kaw 2 smoke triples were very entertaining to ride. Not great at anything but they would put a smile on your face.
Dad bought the 750 new, and I would ride on the tank as a wee one. I had 2 myself, should have kept one I still scour for a patina barn find, from time to time
Raising the rear usually quickens up the steering and gets the pegs a little higher. I would think being a big old boat the ZRX is, this would be benefitial? But I'm prepared to be wrong.
I've dropped the forks 10mm and set the rear concentric with the axle down, and it still handles like a truck. It's not the slow steering that bothers me, as the FZ1 isn't exactly an R1, but the fact that it won't keep a line when you tip it in. You've got to keep hard pressure on the inside bar to get it to track, almost like my tires are badly flat spotted, except they're new.
Dropping the forks = raising the front, which will slow down the steering. Perhaps you mean you dropped the front (raised the forks in the triples)
Listen to what I mean, not what I say...lol. Yeah, in my mind that's how we always used to say it...drop meaning dropping the front end on the forks 10mm.
He had an inside track at KHI for many many years when doing the race team effort. It was basically a blank check proposal and John Hoover (RIP) was a huge advocate for him. He might have taken certain liberties on power gain claims to sell his products. Muzzy confessed after the 1999 prostar finals demo of the zx12 Ricky G put on... he had 400+ pre-orders for exhausts and had a 3 month back order and the bike wasnt going to released until Feb of '00. The bigger buzz was created from Marty Kane's "Dragbike.com" website where Ricky G was all over the NE street racing some preproduction zx12s and making Suzuki owners very unhappy. It was a pretty awesome time to be in the motorcycle performance business. Of course Brock, Marasco, Lee Shierts & other Suzuki diehards had different ideas for the "Stache"... aka Muzzy.
I'm guessing I probably know you, if you know all those people. Marty...jeez, haven't thought about that dude in a minute. Hoover was a great guy, and he and Mel Moore were really good to me back when I was doing the schools. Always looked up to Rob, and then was fortunate to work with him on the PSB project.
The last time I was at a big dinner with the Kawi clan was the fall of 2000... at some steakhouse in Gainesville. We were staying at some hotel that had open bar happy hour where we were all getting primed up. I was part of the RC Comp pro-mod crew running a fuel injected KZ that Rick would ride back to the trailer after a pass I had the lone silver zx12 in the US that had RC comp wheels and much to the chagrin of Rob... an Akra system.
I did Fuel/Data/Chassis for Joe Koenig in PSB. I can't recall how we did that year...was that the year we got rained out and had to run Monday?
Ill have to look... I think so. I really liked how the Gainesville Prostar events book ended the years and kind of bled over to Daytona Bike weeks. The fall events always had great air quality for a pin pulling record setting tune. I started in '97 and did my last event in 2004 when my day job became inflexible.
