Kawasaki GPZ305

I was given this bike by a bloke who no longer wanted it. He gave me all the documents to the bike, keys and even the workshop manual, as well as the address where i needed to pick it up from. When i turned up at the bikes 'resting place' i was hoping for the guy to wheel it out into the garden, clean tidy and ready to go, this wasn't the case. He showed me around the back of his house and pointed to the back of his garden where i could just make out a front wheel covered in weeds, the rest of the bike was hidden in the conifer that had grown around it. Lifting a PVC window out the way i was ... more

I've owned 2 of these, the first one came off second best to a t-bone from a Nissan Micra (ooh! That hurt). It went into the great spares reserve. Reliability is a given, performance,although quite impressive from 306 cc can only be described as adequate, and a bit lacking 2-up. Still fun though. Stopping is good, equipped with twin discs front and drum rear. Braided hoses help front. A very comfortable machine, economy fantastic, returning around 65-75mpg. Peformance Maintenance is straightforward, and helped by the belt drive, which is disliked by some. Clutch basket noise is almost ... more

or so I thought the first time I ever saw one. I was just learning to ride a motorbike, and was unsure what bike I would get once I passed my test and could afford something bigger than my Honda CG125. Then, one day I saw a black and orange gpz305 in the street and fell in love with it. A couple of years later, I finally got enought of a payrise to go out & get a bike, and went straight to the dealers to order a brand new gpz305.The black and orange version was no longer available and I ended up with a blue one. It is a good first bike, if like me, you hadn't ridden for a while (the CG125 died ... more