Mike's Kawasaki W650

Mike was born in Japan but has lived in Connecticut for a number of years. His 2000 W650 took second place in the best 1970's and up Japanese bike class at the 2005 British Iron Association Of Connecticut rally in Hebron. I think the winner was a mint early '70's CB200 in metalic lime green. Anyway, Mike is a machinist by trade and he did some fine custom work on this extra clean bike, notice the custom tail-light and turn signals. The pipes are Daiwa's sent to him by his brother in Japan, along with that spectacular euro-nipponese issue gas tank, never officially imported to these united states...

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Autos & Vehicles

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• kawasaki
• w650
• motorcycle

[lfely]

nice bike....but????

[crocostimpy]

But What?

[rhomotor]

It didn't sell well enough for Kawasaki to keep importing them. Too bad. I still want one till this day.

[ntrudr800]

Yeah I don't get it...

This is one of the best bikes made! It is still being made! Why not in the US?

I am very upset with our government laws on emissions for motorcycles. Just ridiculous and stupid. I could care less about the feministic environmentalist views when it comes to bikes.

...Sure there should be some sort of decent emissions standard so bikes aren't shooting black soot out their pipes, but... stock bikes these days sound like $hit most of the time. Bring it back you tards!

[thespeez]

How difficult are these bikes to come by on the used-bike market in the 'States? How much should they go for? How available are parts for them? What's reliability like? With Suzuki coming back with the TU250X, I'm thinking that Kawasaki might want to bring back something like this; perhaps with a 400 cc engine that could get about 70 MPG; and keep the price under $4,500. The only thing is that it should probably offer a kickstarter.

[fschodts]

which one is it ?

... what RAL colors are thse ?

tnx ;-)

[jayscott49]

does this mean you can't get a used one smogged in the US?

so you can't register one if you buy it used?

[cfodk]

They dont comply to US and Euro emission rules. And Kawasaki could not be bothered to redo the engineering. "Too costly" they say.

Bastards ;-)

[cfodk]

No.

[RowinDrachenfaust]

is this the standard exhaust sound?

[motzjoe]

hey Mikie,

you´re real heavy audaciously driver!!!

But, you always does your best.

[mistersmith6000]

Kawasaki STILL make the W in both 650 and 400 forms in Japan and they are a BIG seller. Recently, they are getting modified too. there is a big W scene in Japan with clubs and loads of aftermarket parts.