Talk:Kawasaki police motorcycles

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 3 external links on Kawasaki police motorcycles. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20110707055003/http://1400gtrpatrol.com/images/GTR1400Enforcer2009.pdf to http://1400gtrpatrol.com/images/GTR1400Enforcer2009.pdf
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20100929213355/http://kawasakipolice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89%3Aidaho-state-police-motor-team&catid=38%3Akawasaki to http://www.kawasakipolice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89%3Aidaho-state-police-motor-team&catid=38%3Akawasaki
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20101129232402/http://ormondbeach.org/archives/41/10-08%20Weekly%20Review.pdf to http://www.ormondbeach.org/archives/41/10-08%20Weekly%20Review.pdf
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 11:38, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I changed the listed KZ1000-P engine specs according to what is in the factory service manual for the bike. The specs that were listed are erroneous, and the same found all over the internet. As someone who owns and maintains 3 of these bikes as a hobby as well as for use by movie and TV productions filmed in the Atlanta area, I often find myself confronted with people who think they know better than Kawasaki's engineers do because they spent 5 seconds on Google.
Before anybody thinks to change the specs back, please consider looking up the specs for the KZ1000-C and the KZ1000-J. The C is the previous model of police bike and in fact it takes an expert eye to tell the difference between a 1981 KZ1000-C and a 1982-2005 KZ1000-P by looking at merely a photograph. Also the engine used by the KZ1000-P is identical to the KZ1000-J. The J started production in 1981, while the P began production in 1982. The C used the MkII not the J Model engine. Given the excact 1 year overlap there, and the fact that the '81 C has a nearly identical front fairing to the '82-'05 P, I suspect this is where the confusion started.
I am willing to provide access to my factory service manuals to confirm the modified specs if necessary.
Given that and the overall dimensions being off, I am pretty sure that the listed rake is wrong, but I do not know what the actual spec should be. I do know the castor is listed in the service manual as 63 degrees and the trail is listed as and I quote, "114mm (4.5)" Calculating the actual rake would probably be fruitless as it's dependent on the tire's diameter, and those tires are police run-flats that were never sold to the general public. I used to have a pair of them, but even if I still had them I don't have a caliper that big. Though if anyone wants to come out to the Atlanta area and take measurements of my 3 bikes (one is fully disassembled but that just makes measuring the angle on the neck easier), you're more than welcome to. 2601:CA:8501:7C50:FDDE:CC4A:9133:F5A9 (talk) 02:36, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Engine specs on KZ1000-P