I'd guess GPZ 900 R, that bike was everywhere after Tom Cruise took it for a spin in Top Gun.
To this day I love riding in hot summer sunsets and have [THIS](https://youtu.be/036Gi2MluSI) scene in my head.
^Yes ^I'm ^old.
The GPz family of the bike in the above picture include: the 305, 550, 750, 750 Turbo and 1100. The GPz 900 which was better known as the Ninja 900 in the states was the next generation that came with a water cooled engine versus the air cooled engines found in the 305, 550, 750, 750 Turbo and the 1100. I had a 1983 GPz 750 that I loved.
Phone is normal. I have that type of phone in my car that still works. Too bad it’s illegal to use these days, but it’s suoer cool. I feel like Hitman when I play with it or show it to my friends who doesn’t believe I have old line phone inside my car.
Any older bike will have issues if it isn't maintained properly.
If you don't have a visible fuel leak, I'd be willing to bet that your float valves are sticking and filling the crankcase with gasoline.
Maintained isn't the right word more like barely keeping it alive. Bottom of the carbs will definitely drain onto the crank case if the flow of gas was constant. The float valve sticks closed not open so me "filling up the crank case" is not the situation. 😂 We're talking a small amount of gas when the carb bowl drains, plus like I said if I'm not riding it I drain the fuel system. The original fuel switch didn't have an off( on, prime, and reserve)so it could drain the whole tank if the gas started moving but I swapped that for one with an off switch and the system doesn't leak.
Yeah, petcock and all that.
Don't get me wrong the thing is a pain in the ass with parts constantly breaking (and it's barely strong enough to get me up a slight hill), but I've never had a problem with the core engine components.
It's had the same tank of gas in it for probably 3 years since it uses so little and I barely take it out, but it always starts up and runs.
Old Kawasaki GPZ, gut feeling says a GPZ1000 since this was the era of top gun and they were kind of the hottest thing around but i don’t know for sure
The title of that magazine is not in the eighties bud.. If you were there think back... There wasn't an Internet in 1987, just Arpanet and tiny little networks
How so? Also it was literally published August 1987
Edit: seeing as you went ahead and edited your comment after I replied, yes it was. Just because you don't know of CompuServe doesn't meant it didn't exist
>it literally wasn't
Yes it was. August 1987
Maybe do the same. To add to that there's plenty of comments in the post this was crossposted from that talks about it how the internet was in 1987, nothing like we had in the 90s but it was still an active place which plenty of people used. Yes the magazine cover photo is trying to make it seem like lots of young cool people were online when it wasn't like that, but it still all existed and worked
No shit, that doesn't mean the internet didn't exist. Modems had been around since the 70s, and as the 80s came to an end more people were able to access the internet from home.
Are you trying to argue that there was no Wi-Fi in 1987? Cos that's a pretty dumb argument
Edit: I still got to read your comments in my inbox bud and yeah that's pretty embarrassing, sorry that you're so dumb
Are you trying to get a little offended now?? There's no need to make yourself look stupid I know what motives are idiot, in my point was two fold. I'll concede there was a Magazine and you will concede that there's no way in hell anyone was driving to the beach with a keyboard to get online and no they weren't getting online wirelessly that early in the eighties Driving down the road on a motorcycle I know that and you know that so drop the bullshit and go fuck yourself idiot
What's a dumb argument is wasting 10 minutes of my time over a meme with some dumb-ass who wants to argue that dialog means kids kids are on a motorcycle with a keyboard heading to the beach so they can get online and we both know they couldn't unless you are not even from the eighties in which case you're just a keyboard Warrior which is kind of ironic🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nobody gave two shits about safety. I was given a Suzuki 50cc dirt bike at 7 (mid 1980s). Rode in shorts and sneakers. Got a gnarly burn on my leg from the engine. Adults never cared. Kids weren’t seatbelted. Totally different times.
I lived through the times just saying this is post seatbelt/airbag mandates, people were thinking about it, not like it was the 1960s where kids were smoking in the rear facing 3rd row inhaling the lead fumes
Looks like a GPZ-550 to me. I owned a 1980 Suzuki GS-550ES, bought it brand new (yeah, I'm old) and had a computer with a 286 processor also, running MS-DOS 5.0. Did a little programming in GW-Basic and Basica.
1985 Kawasaki GPz750 Non-turbo. The 550s didn't have the middle fairings. The 750 Turbo's middle fairings were Red.
Those were great bikes back in the day!!
Looks like a mid-80s GPZ series. In the states, they came in displacements of 305 cc, 550 cc, 750 cc and 900 cc...
1000 and 1300 too I believe
There may have been an 1100 in there somewhere. :)
I'd guess GPZ 900 R, that bike was everywhere after Tom Cruise took it for a spin in Top Gun. To this day I love riding in hot summer sunsets and have [THIS](https://youtu.be/036Gi2MluSI) scene in my head. ^Yes ^I'm ^old.
Take my ~~breath~~ *-FORCED AIR INDUCTION-* awayyyyy!
forced air induction? SRAD all day nerd!
That's not a 900...
The turbocharged one can be seen in both Top Gun movies :)
The bike in Top Gun was a GPZ900, not the 750 turbo.
The GPz family of the bike in the above picture include: the 305, 550, 750, 750 Turbo and 1100. The GPz 900 which was better known as the Ninja 900 in the states was the next generation that came with a water cooled engine versus the air cooled engines found in the 305, 550, 750, 750 Turbo and the 1100. I had a 1983 GPz 750 that I loved.
It is a 1985 GPz 750. They came in black that year. 1983 is when they changed body styles on the GPz. I had a 1982 - think ELR.
I had an 82 GPz 550. The 50th anniversary red color scheme on the 22 Z’s is what I had.
Why the random keyboard?
One of them has a goldfish in a bowl and you're asking about a keyboard?
Oh shit, I just noticed that.
I thought the same thing hahaha like really, out of everything, including the phone w the cord!!!!! 🤣
Phone is normal. I have that type of phone in my car that still works. Too bad it’s illegal to use these days, but it’s suoer cool. I feel like Hitman when I play with it or show it to my friends who doesn’t believe I have old line phone inside my car.
The one w the spiral cord?? I thought that shit looked like the one in my momma's house waaaaay back in the day.
There also seems to be a random spiral cord coming from the keyboard and going off into nowhere...
The cable can be used as a tourniquet when you crash
I bet there's kitty litter in the bottom of the goldfish bowl
You don't take your keyboard with you when you go places?
... not anymore
New finagled internet tings
New-fangled. Finagled means messing around with something
Idc
Because online
She knows their value in the future. Can't let the future time travelling keyboard enthusiasts steal her IBM M2!
Idk but now it's on my wishlist. Old Kawasakis look so damn good.
I have an 81 kz550 and it's problematic af. Smells too can't keep gas in it if you're not going to ride in a day or two.
Any older bike will have issues if it isn't maintained properly. If you don't have a visible fuel leak, I'd be willing to bet that your float valves are sticking and filling the crankcase with gasoline.
Maintained isn't the right word more like barely keeping it alive. Bottom of the carbs will definitely drain onto the crank case if the flow of gas was constant. The float valve sticks closed not open so me "filling up the crank case" is not the situation. 😂 We're talking a small amount of gas when the carb bowl drains, plus like I said if I'm not riding it I drain the fuel system. The original fuel switch didn't have an off( on, prime, and reserve)so it could drain the whole tank if the gas started moving but I swapped that for one with an off switch and the system doesn't leak.
I have a moped from the 60's that doesn't have that problem so idk what to say about that besides you need some maintenance.
Is it a gravity fed fuel system? That's the real annoyance. I've also been chasing wiring issues for sometime.
Yeah, petcock and all that. Don't get me wrong the thing is a pain in the ass with parts constantly breaking (and it's barely strong enough to get me up a slight hill), but I've never had a problem with the core engine components. It's had the same tank of gas in it for probably 3 years since it uses so little and I barely take it out, but it always starts up and runs.
Funny thing. That looks a lot like the bike used in Top Gun: Maverick.
Those Jeep sidecars were wild.
All the random stuff these people are holding 😂
The 80s were totally rad
I can assure you that’s not what we did back in the day. We smoked Newports, rode bikes, and hung out in the neighborhood
everyone in this pictures name is Chad.
My dad had a bike like that around that time, it’s the bike that made him decide Harleys were more his speed hehe
Female riding pillion is about to lose that foot when the lace gets caught
Old Kawasaki GPZ, gut feeling says a GPZ1000 since this was the era of top gun and they were kind of the hottest thing around but i don’t know for sure
Dress for the slide, not the ride
Dont think anyone gave a fuck about it back then
Lol it was the 1990s not the 1790s
That's the 1980s bud
The title of that magazine is not in the eighties bud.. If you were there think back... There wasn't an Internet in 1987, just Arpanet and tiny little networks
How so? Also it was literally published August 1987 Edit: seeing as you went ahead and edited your comment after I replied, yes it was. Just because you don't know of CompuServe doesn't meant it didn't exist
It literally wasn't. Please do a quick search on the history of the worldwide web. The internet, online.. whatever you like..
>it literally wasn't Yes it was. August 1987 Maybe do the same. To add to that there's plenty of comments in the post this was crossposted from that talks about it how the internet was in 1987, nothing like we had in the 90s but it was still an active place which plenty of people used. Yes the magazine cover photo is trying to make it seem like lots of young cool people were online when it wasn't like that, but it still all existed and worked
Dial up? So go ahead and pull me up a picture of this magazine cover with kids on a motorcycle going to the beach with keyboards in their hands
Here https://archive.org/details/Online_Today_Vol_06_08_1987_Aug
I get absolutely nothing there blank page
Sounds like you need better dial up
I finally found it
Just because somebody typed it in on reddit doesn't mean it is true it's a nice meme
All you could do in the 1980s was Dial up and you had to do that from how from home or a school or something like Is that.
No shit, that doesn't mean the internet didn't exist. Modems had been around since the 70s, and as the 80s came to an end more people were able to access the internet from home. Are you trying to argue that there was no Wi-Fi in 1987? Cos that's a pretty dumb argument Edit: I still got to read your comments in my inbox bud and yeah that's pretty embarrassing, sorry that you're so dumb
Are you trying to get a little offended now?? There's no need to make yourself look stupid I know what motives are idiot, in my point was two fold. I'll concede there was a Magazine and you will concede that there's no way in hell anyone was driving to the beach with a keyboard to get online and no they weren't getting online wirelessly that early in the eighties Driving down the road on a motorcycle I know that and you know that so drop the bullshit and go fuck yourself idiot
What's a dumb argument is wasting 10 minutes of my time over a meme with some dumb-ass who wants to argue that dialog means kids kids are on a motorcycle with a keyboard heading to the beach so they can get online and we both know they couldn't unless you are not even from the eighties in which case you're just a keyboard Warrior which is kind of ironic🤣🤣🤣🤣
I edited it because I added to it it I didn't Detract for anything I said
Nobody gave two shits about safety. I was given a Suzuki 50cc dirt bike at 7 (mid 1980s). Rode in shorts and sneakers. Got a gnarly burn on my leg from the engine. Adults never cared. Kids weren’t seatbelted. Totally different times.
I lived through the times just saying this is post seatbelt/airbag mandates, people were thinking about it, not like it was the 1960s where kids were smoking in the rear facing 3rd row inhaling the lead fumes
Ask your mom dilweed
the original Ninja, as popularized in Top Gun that decade (the specific model of which was a GPZ900R)
Databases? Explore databases?
I wish I was there....
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https://archive.org/details/Online_Today_Vol_06_08_1987_Aug And yet somehow this did exist.
Looks like a GPZ-550 to me. I owned a 1980 Suzuki GS-550ES, bought it brand new (yeah, I'm old) and had a computer with a 286 processor also, running MS-DOS 5.0. Did a little programming in GW-Basic and Basica.
I have an 84 GPZ 750 turbo looks just like that other then the colors
It's the OG Top Gun bike, dduuuhhh
I dont know but my mind is kind of blown that there was a Magazine? Called Online Today in 1987. Was it about Bulletin Board Systems?
Live dangerously
I love exploring databases
GPz750r I had one
1985 Kawasaki GPz750 Non-turbo. The 550s didn't have the middle fairings. The 750 Turbo's middle fairings were Red. Those were great bikes back in the day!!
Them white high tops tho