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Bikes Other than ST 11/1300 => Other Bike Discussions => Topic started by: Bodø on November 14, 2020, 05:29:13 PM

Title: Have You Spotted A Kawasaki Versys 1000? Where & When?
Post by: Bodø on November 14, 2020, 05:29:13 PM: Have you spotted a Versys 1000?

Let me know. (http://www.footballnews.com.au/forum/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
Title: Re: Have You Spotted A Kawasaki Versys 1000? Where & When?
Post by: CallMeSteve on November 14, 2020, 05:59:59 PM: On an ST forum? Just as well our mods are softies ;-*

Yeah my mates got one. I'll snap a photo next time I see him.
Title: Re: Have You Spotted A Kawasaki Versys 1000? Where & When?
Post by: Bodø on November 14, 2020, 06:06:32 PM: Quote from: CallMeSteve on November 14, 2020, 05:59:59 PM
On an ST forum? Just as well our mods are softies ;-*

Yeah my mates got one. I'll snap a photo next time I see him.

:thumbs

Isn't that why we have an other bikes subforum? I've only ever seen one on the road once. Seen a couple in shops though. Very underrated bike.
Title: Re: Have You Spotted A Kawasaki Versys 1000? Where & When?
Post by: CallMeSteve on November 14, 2020, 06:45:20 PM: Sorry. I’d never noticed the ‘other bikes’ sub forum. A thousand apologies. :chocolate-box-smiley-emoticon
Title: Re: Have You Spotted A Kawasaki Versys 1000? Where & When?
Post by: Shillas on December 02, 2020, 08:26:44 AM: Well it was a Versys with green trim, not sure if a 1000 or other variant.

Adelaide Road Murray Bridge at around 8.30
Title: Re: Have You Spotted A Kawasaki Versys 1000? Where & When?
Post by: Sicman on December 02, 2020, 09:05:19 AM: Quote from: CallMeSteve on November 14, 2020, 06:45:20 PM
Sorry. I’d never noticed the ‘other bikes’ sub forum. A thousand apologies. :chocolate-box-smiley-emoticon
:think1 Growly hung around in here that long, they felt sorry for him and set him up his own page ;-* :grin
Title: Re: Have You Spotted A Kawasaki Versys 1000? Where & When?
Post by: Skip on December 02, 2020, 09:28:19 AM: I have a mate that has one which I took for a ride recently. What a great bike. It's a 2017 model so doesn't have all the bells and whistles of the new SE, but it was beautiful to ride. I'd have to change the standard screen though. The ST is a hard act to follow regarding weather protection.
Title: Re: Have You Spotted A Kawasaki Versys 1000? Where & When?
Post by: Bodø Glimt on December 02, 2020, 09:30:51 AM: Quote from: Sicman on December 02, 2020, 09:05:19 AM
Quote from: CallMeSteve on November 14, 2020, 06:45:20 PM
Sorry. I’d never noticed the ‘other bikes’ sub forum. A thousand apologies. :chocolate-box-smiley-emoticon
:think1 Growly hung around in here that long, they felt sorry for him and set him up his own page ;-* :grin

They??? I had to set up my own page. :angry-old-man-smiley-emoticon :nahnah
Title: Re: Have You Spotted A Kawasaki Versys 1000? Where & When?
Post by: Brock on December 02, 2020, 02:18:15 PM: Whats a Versys????
Title: Re: Have You Spotted A Kawasaki Versys 1000? Where & When?
Post by: on December 02, 2020, 03:37:49 PM: It's an extremely underrated bike. Basically Kawasaki got a V-strøm and improved it. :Stirpot
Title: Re: Have You Spotted A Kawasaki Versys 1000? Where & When?
Post by: Langers on December 02, 2020, 04:31:57 PM: Perhaps a bit like soccer and Aussie Rules. First there was soccer and then it was improved and we have Aussie rules :Stirpot
Title: Re: Have You Spotted A Kawasaki Versys 1000? Where & When?
Post by: Bodø Glimt on December 02, 2020, 04:47:08 PM: Whilst I disagree, I'll pay that one. :rofl
Title: Re: Have You Spotted A Kawasaki Versys 1000? Where & When?
Post by: Langers on December 02, 2020, 05:23:19 PM: I actually suspect you are right Bodo, the Kwaka is very underrated, particularly when you consider what you get for the $. I went for the V-Strom because the motor is renown for reliability, 2 cylinders (compared to 4 in line) tend to have a bit more low down power and so a bit better for a bit of off road work and for me (and this is the real reason) it came at the right time and right price. If had been a Versys available etc I suspect I would have bought it. The other thing I know is - if the trip is to be 100% good sealed road, I'd take the ST every time.
Title: Re: Have You Spotted A Kawasaki Versys 1000? Where & When?
Post by: Bodø on August 13, 2021, 11:09:13 AM: Quote from: Shillas on August 12, 2021, 07:44:07 PM
Not an ST, but an OzSTOC'r on a Kwaka Versys

Bodø turning from Greenhill Road to head up Glen Osmond on Tuesday in his split shift for work.

I've just refuelled it, sprayed the chain and parked it up for sunday. The Xmax will take me to work this afternoon.
Title: Re: Have You Spotted A Kawasaki Versys 1000? Where & When?
Post by: West Aussie Glen on August 13, 2021, 01:22:48 PM: Mitch is now riding one so followed/lead it all the way to the border and back last weekend :grin
Title: Re: Have You Spotted A Kawasaki Versys 1000? Where & When?
Post by: Bodø on November 21, 2023, 01:36:01 PM: There wasn't one at the Finniss RTE on sunday. :rofl
Title: Re: Have You Spotted A Kawasaki Versys 1000? Where & When?
Post by: Bodø on December 23, 2023, 03:33:18 PM: A nice green one on the Horrocks Highway today.
Title: Re: Have You Spotted A Kawasaki Versys 1000? Where & When?
Post by: STroppy on December 29, 2023, 04:12:34 AM: Last one I saw was at Harrow!😁
Title: Re: Have You Spotted A Kawasaki Versys 1000? Where & When?
Post by: Bodø on December 29, 2023, 04:19:42 AM: :rofl

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Title: Re: Have You Spotted A Kawasaki Versys 1000? Where & When?
Post by: STroppy on December 29, 2023, 07:04:50 AM: 2019 - that must have been when I went there with JWT and he was on BeeSTy?

Forgot about that one.
Title: Re: Have You Spotted A Kawasaki Versys 1000? Where & When?
Post by: Shillas on April 12, 2024, 03:09:48 PM: Not a 1000, but the Adelaide City Council have swapped from Honda CB's to the Versys 300 for their sticker lickers it seems

(https://imghostr.net/images/2024/04/12/b9cae8718663aac6de111cf8c0ead985.jpg)
Title: Re: Have You Spotted A Kawasaki Versys 1000? Where & When?
Post by: Bodø on April 12, 2024, 05:59:41 PM: They did that a few years ago.