watched a great race today.

[ripinanroarin]

was sitting out side at the local coffee "bike" shop. I could hear 2 bikes really going at it. I stood up to watch. I knew the one bike was a yamaha warrior but didnt recodnize the other "too fast"
The unknown bike was in the lead. I couldnt tell who won, as they got to far away .
About 1/2 hour later they pulled into the coffee shop. They wouldnt say who beat who. The other bike was a Kawasaki eliminator 900:confused2: never knew there was such a bike . It was in new shape, I couldnt believe it was only a 1986. He said it would run 11's at the track. That must be one of kawasaki"s best secrets.That bike has balls. Here is a video I found on the bike. He said he had a 600 eliminator as well and it runs low 12's. Where were all these bikes when I was growing up..arrrg.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ub4TEHxGtg

 

[EvilD]

Yeah, those Eliminators are cool

 

[old timer]

Pretty sure that bike along with the Honda V65 Magna and Suzuki Madura were the other factories version and competition aimed at the V Max . Obviously didn't work . :rofl_200:

 

[KJShover]

The Eliminator, 1200 Madura and the Max came out in '85 to go against Honda's V65 which came out in '83.

I would still love to have an Eliminator. There used to be a chained, Mr. turbo'd eliminator up here that belonged to a guy on Fort Weinwright. The thing was stupid fast. When he shipped out to another post, so did his bike.

 

[The Beekeeper]

I believe the 900 Eliminator used the ninja engine, I ran across one of these things in the mid 80s while I was on my brothers 80 CBX Honda, we did a 1st gear roll on and it was the closest race I had been in up to that time, we were side by side most of the run and just barely pulled him on the top end, we pulled over in a park down the road and I found out he was already on his 2nd motor......................Good times indeed!.........Tom.

 

[adamax]

Honda X4 was the closest imitation to the Vmax with a 1300cc inline 4 and max-look alike huge mufflers, but only in production for 6 years. Nice bikes though but I like Vmax much more

 

[tothemax93]

I had a 1985 900 Eliminator brand new off the show room floor. I never raced it at the drags, but it was a fast bike. My brother took it out to see what it would do, and when he hammered on it, the bike just about rode out from under him. I guess he wasn't hanging on tight.unk:
Also I had it over 10 years with zero issues.

 

[eatatjoz]

Even the 250's were fast.
My neighbor has the only 900 I've seen in fifteen years. Cool bikes.

 

[ripinanroarin]

Seems alot of people here have seen or heard of it,lol. After reading the other posts I can see why it was built. I looked at the specs on the 600 eliminator, and would love to have one as a second bike. It would make a nice light in town bike.:biglaugh:

 

[TygaUSA]

Think it did use a variant of the Ninja engine. You don't see a lot of them around but they are out there!

 

[Shuriken]

http://www.vmaxforum.net/showthread.php?t=4300

 

[4gasem]

I knew a guy that had one... They're MUCH harder to find parts for. Not nearly as good looking and cool sounding as a max IMO.

Chris

 

[OU812]

I think for one year, 86' or 87', Kamasaki also made a 1,000 Elimnator... sheckk it ooout... Google it...

 

[shorthair88]

was sitting out side at the local coffee "bike" shop. I could hear 2 bikes really going at it. I stood up to watch. I knew the one bike was a yamaha warrior but didnt recodnize the other "too fast"
The unknown bike was in the lead. I couldnt tell who won, as they got to far away .
About 1/2 hour later they pulled into the coffee shop. They wouldnt say who beat who. The other bike was a Kawasaki eliminator 900:confused2: never knew there was such a bike . It was in new shape, I couldnt believe it was only a 1986. He said it would run 11's at the track. That must be one of kawasaki"s best secrets.That bike has balls. Here is a video I found on the bike. He said he had a 600 eliminator as well and it runs low 12's. Where were all these bikes when I was growing up..arrrg.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ub4TEHxGtg

Picked up my 85 max 3 yrs ago, picking up a mint condition v65 1986 next week, then a cbx 1000....these are all bikes that rocked hard in the early 80's...