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| {{Motorcycle | | {{Motorcycle |
| |name = Kawasaki Z1100D Spectre | | |name = Kawasaki KZ1100D |
| |photo =1983-kawasaki-kz1100-d2.jpg | | |image = |
| |aka = Spectre | | |aka = Spectre |
| |manufacturer = Kawasaki | | |manufacturer = [[Kawasaki]] |
| |parent_company = | | |parent_company = |
| |production = 1982 - 83 | | |production = 82-83 |
| |model_year = | | |model_year = |
| |predecessor = | | |predecessor = |
| |successor = | | |successor = |
| |class = Cruiser | | |class = [[Cruiser]] |
| |engine = 1089 [[cc]], Four stroke, transverse four cylinder, DOHC, 2 [[valve]] per cylinder. | | |engine = 1089 [[cc]], [[Four-stroke]], 4 Cylinder, Dual Over Head Camshaft |
| |bore_stroke = | | |bore_stroke = |
| |compression = 8.9:1 | | |compression = |
| |top_speed = 142 mph / 228 km/h | | |top_speed = |
| |power = | | |power = |
| |torque = | | |torque = |
| |fuel_system =
| | |ignition = |
| |ignition = CDI | |
| |spark_plug = {{sparkplug|NGK B8ES}} '82-83 | | |spark_plug = {{sparkplug|NGK B8ES}} '82-83 |
| |battery = {{battery|YUASA YB18L-A}} '82-83 | | |battery = {{battery|YUASA YB18L-A}} '82-83 |
| |transmission = 5 Speed | | |transmission = |
| |frame = Tubular mild steel, double front downtubes | | |frame = |
| |suspension =Front: 38mm Air assisted telescopic forks, 152mm [[wheel]] travel. <br> | | |suspension = |
| Rear: Single air shock 4-way adjustable rebound damping, 102mm wheel travel
| | |brakes = |
| |brakes =Front: 2x 270mm discs 1 [[calipers]] <br>Rear: Single 270mm disc 1 caliper | | |front_tire = {{tire|}} '82-83 |
| |front_tire = {{tire|3.25H19}} | | |rear_tire = {{tire|130/90-16}} '82-83 |
| |rear_tire = {{tire|130/90-16}} | | |rake_trail = |
| |rake_trail = | | |wheelbase = |
| |wheelbase = | | |length = |
| |length = | | |width = |
| |width = | | |height = |
| |height = | | |seat_height = |
| |seat_height = 760 mm / 30.0 In | | |dry_weight = |
| |dry_weight = | | |wet_weight = |
| |wet_weight = | | |fuel_capacity = |
| |fuel_capacity = 21.4 Liters / 5.6 US gal | | |oil_capacity = |
| |oil_capacity = | | |oil_filter = K&N KN-401 |
| |oil_filter = {{oilfilter|K&N KN-401}}<ref name="kl_2019">{{cite book|title=2019 K&L Supply Co Catalog|publisher=[https://www.klsupply.com/ K&L Supply Co]|date=2019}}</ref> | | |fuel_consumption = |
| |recommended_oil=K-tech 10W-40
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| |fuel_consumption = | | |related = |
| |turning_radius = | | |competition = |
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| |competition = | |
| |final_drive=Shaft `82-83<ref name="wps_street_2019">{{cite book|title=2019 Western Power Sports Catalog|publisher=[https://www.wps-inc.com/catalogs Western Power Sports]|date=2019}}</ref>
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| The '''Kawasaki KZ1100D ''' is a [[motorcycle]] produced by [[Kawasaki]] from 1982 to 1983. | | The '''Kawasaki KZ1100D ''' is a [[motorcycle]] produced by [[Kawasaki]] from 1982 to 1983. |
| It could reach a top speed of 142 mph / 228 km/h.
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| ==Engine==
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| The engine was a Air cooled cooled Four stroke, transverse four cylinder, DOHC, 2 valve per cylinder.. The engine featured a 8.9:1 [[compression ratio]].
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| ==Drive==
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| Power was moderated via the Wet, multi-plate.
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| ==Chassis==
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| It came with a 3.25H19 front [[tire]] and a 130/90-16 rear tire. Stopping was achieved via 2x 270mm discs 1 calipers in the front and a Single 270mm disc 1 [[caliper]] in the rear. The front suspension was a 38mm Air assisted telescopic forks, 152mm wheel travel. while the rear was equipped with a Single air shock 4-way adjustable rebound damping, 102mm wheel travel. The Z1100D Spectre was fitted with a 21.4 Liters / 5.6 US gal fuel tank.
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| *Color | | *Color |
| **Fuel Tank: Two Tone Ebony | | **Fuel Tank: Two Tone Ebony |
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| *Owner's Manual No: 99922-1205-01, (C)(U) 99920-1177-01 | | *Owner's Manual No: 99922-1205-01, (C)(U) 99920-1177-01 |
| *Changes: Color and graphic | | *Changes: Color and graphic |
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| ==Review==
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| Don't think of it as the After Midnight Special. The Spectre is a pure
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| cheaterbike all on its own.
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| BY LARRY WORKS
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| You're familiar with the scenario, no doubt. Even if you haven't lived it,
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| you've probably wanted to. You pull up to a stopany stop will do and dismount.
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| Then gradually, but with increasing frequency, passersby stop to ask you about
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| your bike. Eventually a crowd forms. Fans, no less.
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| What they've gathered to ogle is the obvious handiwork that went into
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| transforming some big-numbers production machine into what stopped them in their
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| tracks-something altogether different. Something that looks like only a
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| craftsman with a clear vision of the finished product could build it. Not simply
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| a motorcycle but a statement, shaped of hard materials and a flexible
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| imagination.
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| If you can't picture it happening, you're out of luck, because that's
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| what riding Kawasaki's new KZ1100 Spectre is like, for better or for worse.
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| Worse, because if you're the retiring type, the kind who shies away from
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| accepting credit for someone else's work, you'll just have to live with it.
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| Because from its gold-painted engine cases to its wrinkle-finished black
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| instrument pods, the Spectre generates the impression that its rider had more of
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| a hand in its creation than simply signing a check.
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| To view the Spectre from the proper perspective, you need first vent all the
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| After Midnight Special humor. Granted, there are similarities between the
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| Spectre and a
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| Midnight Special. At the core of both Kawasaki's limited-edition Spectre and
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| Yamaha's extremely limited (now so limited as to be discontinued) Midnight
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| Special is the application of a black-and-gold graphics scheme to a big-bore
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| street cruiser. And true enough, the Spectre, Kawasaki's first such venture with
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| LTD-type hardware, is, like the Midnight bike, shaft-driven. But there the
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| comparison stops. Because while the Spectre might have been tracking in the same
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| general direction as Yamaha's entry, it wasn't following in its treadmarks.
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| Yamaha's black-and-gold cruiser had a glossy, production look, while the Spectre
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| casts an altogether different shadow. Subtle differences, to be sure, but still
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| noticeable, even by the in-the-street uninitiate. The Spectre is not so much
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| factory-chopper as factory-custom, with the emphasis clearly off of factory.
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| You could probably take the "factory" out of the Spectre's description
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| completely, if you were so inclinedi The basis for the exercise would be a
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| bog-standard KZ1100A, Kawasaki's touring-oriented shaftie. Leave the
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| double-front downtube frame and the DOHC engine intact. Even the A's cams, 8.9:1
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| compression ratio, valves and gear ratios make the transition from super-tourer
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| to blockbuster, because the change is almost exclusively for the eye of the
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| beholder. But toss away the A's humpback 5.6-gallon fuel tank in favor of a
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| tear-shaped 3.8-gallon unit more in keeping with the esthetics of the boulevard.
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| And deep-six the A's Mark One handlebar for one with a bit more street savvy.
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| Then, while you assault/bob the fenders and exhaust pipes, send the seat out to
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| be lowered and to have its front section "dished." After that, cut the rear
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| wheel travel by about half an inch to guarantee a low seat height, stiffen up on
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| the springing and damping at both ends and reduce the steering head angle by one
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| degree. Finally, for sheer brazen vanity, replace the A's 3.50x19 front tire
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| with a 3.25x19 to make the front end look slimmer.
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| Only then could you get out your paint. You'd need lots of gold because the
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| Spectre is a veritable orgy of the stuff. It shows up on the cast wheels, the
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| bodies of the Kayaba air shocks, the engine cases, the rocker covers, the fork
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| sliders and in some tasteful mock pinstriping on the Spectre's sheetmetal/plastic.
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| And you'd need black, an armload of black, because chrome was apparently
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| anathema to the Spectre's design staff. Just about the only places you'll find
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| shiny silver on the Spectre are the disc rotors, the polished rims of the wheels
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| and on a few isolated nuts and bolts. Not only are the exhaust pipes
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| black-chromed, the handlebar is black, the four 34mm constant-vacuum Mikunis are
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| black, the turn-signals and padded grabrail are black and most of the Spectre
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| bodywork is black as well. Fork boots (remember fork boots on street bikes?)
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| were even added to keep the air-spring fork assembly a combination of
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| black-and-goldbut without running the Spectre's as-yet-unannounced pricetag out
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| of sight.
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| To top off your home-brewed Spectre, you'd need burgundy, to accent the black
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| with contrasting panels on the fenders, tank and sidecovers. And what you'd have
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| at the end of all that reworking, reshaping and repigmenting would be either
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| (depending on your own skills) a rough one-off of a Spectre or a customizer's
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| nightmare. Or, Kawasaki could simply do the work in the first place. Either way,
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| the world at large is likely to conclude that you did it all yourself.
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| What you'd get in the case of the factory-built genuine Spectre, though, is
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| an ergonomics layout designed for the task: cruisingbut cruising without the
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| traditional sit-up-and-beg riding position. You can affect an
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| arms-locked, bolt-upright posture if some reason of orthopedic necessity or
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| appearance demands it, but the Spectre itself poses no such requirements. The
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| footpegs, which mount in the same position as on the A-model, don't seem nearly
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| so far forward on the D-mqdel Spectre. The Spectre's shorter tank allows the
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| rider to be positioned relatively farther forward, making the footpeg placement
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| seem natural. And the Spectre's handlebar, with more rise and more pullback than
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| the A's bar, reduces the amount of bend required at the rider's waist to reach
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| both foot and hand controls. The result is a comfortable forward cant; not a
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| roadracy crouch, but also not the broomstick-up-the-spine approach demanded by
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| others of the boulevard genre. A Spectre rider also need not suffer the
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| indignities of shatterhand, since the D-model's handlebar is none too radical,
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| positioning the handgripsand Kawasaki's new finger-contoured leversin a
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| natural location that doesn't require full-arm contortions to work the throttle.
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| When the throttle is exercised, however, much of the flattering fakery
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| about the Spectre falls by the wayside. The basso exhaust note pumping out of
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| the shorty pipes will dispell any notions about who built the powerplant. The
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| sound is pure Z-l Modern, regardless of what the surrounding decor hints at. And
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| fortunately, Z-l Modern includes Kawasaki's air suction system, which allows
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| carb settings not cripplingly
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| EPA-lean, so the Spectre warms to the task and is ready to roll in short
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| time.
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| Short time is also what you have after the throttle moves and before the
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| engine reacts. The Spectre, despite any horsepower losses inflicted by the shaft
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| final drive, is still a moverbut a three-way rubber engine mount system assures
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| that it isn't a shaker. The shaft final drive does provide a bit of rise and
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| squat with engine acceleration/deceleration, but only enough to note, not to
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| object to. Shaft-drive losses or additions notwithstanding, our Spectre test
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| bike produced an 11.99-second quarter-milemore than sufficient for any level of
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| around-town blockbusting. So what you get with a big fist of Spectre throttle is
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| not simply hard acceleration, but to be gone.
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| Despite the obvious pavement-ripping qualities endemic to the mating of a
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| monster motor and a 130/90x16 Dunlop Qualifier rear tire, the Spectre proves its
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| street worth when the engine isn't revving hard. Then, firmly in Main Street
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| mode, you learn to appreciate not only how 1090cc can ma|ie the scenery stretch
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| breathtakingly away when you yank on the go-stick, but how easily it can make
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| the world slide by when a gentler hand is applied. And the Spectre makes it
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| embarrassingly easy to cruise. The engine pulls strongly from 1500 rpm on up, so
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| five easy clicks of the slick gearbox can leave you anywhere from urban trawling
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| speed all the way up to abject foolishness, depending on how hard you twist the
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| throttle. Even sustained riding in high gear at sub-2000-rpm engine speeds won't
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| coax a stumble from the Mikunis, so all you're left with is minding the
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| impet-uousness of your right hand and unobtrusively checking out the reflection
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| in store-front windows. That, and honing your y routine for when you're asked
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| how you ever got the idea for gold engine cases.
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| Besides having its cruise-speed act down pat, the Spectre also is armed for
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| the free-fire zone that on-street parking has become. In addition to the usual
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| fork lock at the ignition switch, the Spectre thwarts unauthorized rapid changes
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| in possession with Kawasaki's exclusive centerstand lock, also conveniently
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| operated by the ignition key. With the centerstand locked in the down position,
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| rollaway thefts are out of the question, and the Spectre's own 553-pound
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| avoirdupois actively discourages carryoffs. If you require still more in the
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| line of anti-theft insurance, Kawasaki offers an additional rider policy in the
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| form of an optional cable lock, which nestles out of the way in a left-side
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| frame member when not in use.
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| So, prowling urban streets or passing time in parking lots the Spectre does
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| handily, but they aren't
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| necessarily what it does best, especially when you consider that beneath the
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| custom livery lies most of the running gear of the 1100A tourer. All of which
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| means that the Spectre is one street cruiser that won't fall on its knees when
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| you reach the city limits.
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| Much of the reason the Spectre doesn't give up the ghost at the prospect of
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| out-of-town riding lies in its suspension adjustability. Like the KZ1100A, the
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| Spectre relies on air-assisted suspension, front and rear, to take the sting out
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| of road jolts. A leading-axle air-spring fork with 38mm stanchion-tube diameter
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| and a balance tube handles the front-end tasks, while nitrogen-filled Kayaba air
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| shocks cushion the rear. The shocks are adjustable to four damping settings, and
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| the air pressure can be changed for both shocks at the equalizer line under the
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| seat.
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| With the suspension bits adjusted to touring-soft, the Spectre does a fair
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| approximation of a full-time luxotourer. Sliding friction at the bearing
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| surfaces in the fork allows some of the jolt of sharp-edged expansion joints to
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| work back to the rider, but it usually reads out as a minor jar, not a relief
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| map of the road surface. And the Spectre's rear end, assisted in part by the
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| flexing of the multi-grade foam in the well-shaped saddle, offers up a
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| comfortable ride. What little vibration there is at highway speeds and faster is
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| a slight tingle through the handlebar, but it isn't even enough to blur the
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| images in the Spectre's tinted mirrors. The handling is twitch-free and suited
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| to low-effort riding for long distances. The only sour note in the Spectre's
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| highway performance comes from its abbreviated exhausts, which churn out a
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| substantial rumble that tires the rider long before the rest of the bike will.
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| All in all, the Spectre offers a fairly convincing argument that street cruising
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| can be state-to-state as well as stoplight-to-stoplight.
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| That same argument can be applied to more spirited riding as well. Heavy
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| inputs aren't required to get the Spectre heeled over to respectable lean
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| angles. And good braking afforded by the triple discs, as welr^P
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| as the engine's ability to pull the Spectre out of
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| turns at high exit speeds, makes^a eight-tenths riding part of the bike's pro-^"
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| gram. Flat-out backroads hauling will point out the Spectre's
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| street-cruiser predilectionsand weightas a slow . wobble in hard cornering,
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| but to label the bike as somehow flawed for any sport riding is to miss the
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| point entirely.
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| All that high-speed roadwork proves is that there are other more-specialized
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| machines more adept atand more adapted tostraightening curves. And the
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| prospective Spectre buyer knows that there are other, faster bikes out there for
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| pure sport ridingat least he should. But what he should also know from the
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| outset that the Spectre forces a decision: You either have to affect a
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| shucks-gosh-darn attitude about accepting misdirected praise for all the
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| well-thought-out custom licks you applied to make your bike ... or you might as
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| well keep on riding.
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| Source CYCLE GUIDE 1982
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| CYCLE GUIDE
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| ==Specifications==
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| !Make Model
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| |Kawasaki KZ1100D Spectre
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| !Year
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| |1982 - 83
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| !Engine Type
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| |Four stroke, transverse four cylinder, DOHC, 2 valve per cylinder.
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| !Displacement
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| |1089 cc / 66.4 cu-in
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| !Bore X Stroke
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| |72.5 x 66mm
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| !Cooling System
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| |Air cooled
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| !Compression
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| |8.9:1
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| !Induction
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| |4x 34mm Mikuni constant-vacuum
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| !Ignition
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| |CDI
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| !Starting
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| |Electric
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| !Max Power
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| |108 hp @ 8500rpm
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| !Max Torque
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| |9.8 kgf-m @ 7000 rpm
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| !Clutch
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| |Wet, multi-plate
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| !Transmission
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| |5 Speed
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| !Final Drive
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| |Shaft
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| !Gear Ratio
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| |I 2.643 11.239 6.6 II 1.833 7.795 9.5 III 1.429 6.077 122 IV 1.174 4.992 14.8 V 1.040 4.423 16.7
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| !Frame
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| |Tubular mild steel, double front downtubes
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| !Front Suspension
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| |38mm Air assisted telescopic forks, 152mm wheel travel.
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| !Rear Suspension
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| |Single air shock 4-way adjustable rebound damping, 102mm wheel travel
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| !Front Brakes
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| |2x 270mm discs 1 calipers
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| !Rear Brakes
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| |Single 270mm disc 1 caliper
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| !Front Tire
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| |3.25H19
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| !Rear Tire
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| |130/90-16
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| !Seat Height
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| |760 mm / 30.0 In
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| !Weight
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| |251 kg / 553lbs
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| !Fuel Capacity
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| |21.4 Liters / 5.6 US gal
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| !Consumption Average
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| |37 mpg
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| !Standing ¼ Mile
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| |11.960 sec., 110.42 mph /178 km/h
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| !Top Speed
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| |142 mph / 228 km/h
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| ==References==
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| {{reflist}}
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| {{template:Kawasaki KZ}} | | {{template:Kawasaki KZ}} |
| {{Kawasaki}} | | {{Kawasaki}} |