Kawasaki Daytona Superbike 1980 

Right and lightweight..

Darth Vader, who else?

I think so too. Eddie's leathers and bike graphics look like the '81 colors.

haha, great bike, nice flexible power band..Eddie's probably a little tonge in cheek on the power.. those bikes were un ruly beasts, they had to bump the compression up to the moon , and put mad stiff valve springs in em, so they got very peaky, and overwhelmed the suspension coming off corners, maybe they tamed the thing a bit for Eddie, but remember what level he's riding at.. bikes all over n he just reels it in.. but don't kid yourself, one of us mere mortals could not set down a decent lap time on one of those things to save our lives.. whatever the connection the two bikes had, the modern street version is sedate and easy to ride compared to those early beasts.. every vintage racer I spoke to says, that bike, the cb 1000 when it was hopped up and the tz 750 were the scariest machines on the track.. Even Raney says they were damn scary.. it's cool your ride shares some DNA with those beasts.. it was an era for men with big brass ones... honestly , you green machine owners should put together a racing series for yer bikes, grab some tires and leathers and battle it out old school style at yer local track.. would be awesome to see a one type series.. we do it with our ducs on club days.. let the green beasts rip !!!

they completely shit canned their latest attempt to get back into moto GP, despite a huge effort.. it's too bad we havent seen a good showing from them since Scott Russell on the ZX7's , but they came out thinking they would dominate right away,,, absence from the circuit costs a couple of seasons of shit running for any team, lots to re learn.. when it turned out the bike was un competitive, the ZXRR, despite Kawi putting Melandri on the thing, and al the sexy chick marketing, and corporate boasting was a good generation behind in chassis.. Kawi had a good engine , but that no longer makes a great gp bike.. so the approach of hp n great rider doesn't work.. they do better in Superbike, and production classes, just not great at purpose built race machines....it's why you see bikes like the H2R from them instead of a RC213v which will woop an HR on lap times .. that era was so cool , they had amazing riders on crazy machines.. and competed well.. I think internal corporate arrogance kinda killed em in motoGP, too sure of themselves .. would be cool to see all the big four competing in the top level again, would make for some great racing ..

They dominate World Superbike, for the past 3 years. Jonathan Rea and Kawasaki. Using their MotoGP team.