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|name = Kawasaki ZX550A | |name = Kawasaki ZX550A | ||
|image = | |image = [[Image:Gpz550.jpg|350px|GPz550]] | ||
|aka = | |aka = GPZ550 | ||
|manufacturer = [[Kawasaki]] | |manufacturer = [[Kawasaki]] | ||
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The ZX550A was marketed in the US as the '''[[Kawasaki]] GPz550'''. | The ZX550A was marketed in the US as the '''[[Kawasaki]] GPz550'''. | ||
Kawasaki's first GPz550 of 1981 was not only the half-pint brother to the firm's GPz1100 muscle bike, it was also a mould-breaking machine in its own right. Until then, four-cylinder 550s (which at the time was the preferred middleweight capacity, the vogue for 600s didn't start until 1986) were general-purpose roadsters, with no particular performance emphasis. That changed with the mean and moody, black and red GPz. | |||
When first revealed, it caused quite a stir 53bhp was quite something from a middleweight in those days. And even thought the little GPz relies on air-adjustable forks and twin-shock rear suspension (an even racier Unitrack version followed in 1983), it's still a nippy urban tool that will happily keep up with the more modern stuff if the right hands. | |||
==1984== | ==1984== | ||
[[Image:1984-kawasaki-zx550-a1.jpg|left|thumb|1984 Kawasaki ZX550-A1]] | [[Image:1984-kawasaki-zx550-a1.jpg|left|thumb|1984 Kawasaki ZX550-A1]] | ||