Amyone know italian? I can make out the title (which is is french) but the rest...... ?????. Looks like they had fun though.



http://www.motocorse.com/sections.ph...icle&artid=191


Steve

don't know either, pretty much looks like it translates as:

wooooooohhohoohooooo!!!!

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

this page can give you a very bad translation, just plug in the web address.

but these words alone let us know what's really going on:
"Di naked tradizionale"

scott

Originally posted by sf302
Amyone know italian? I can make out the title (which is is french) but the rest...... ?????. Looks like they had fun though.



http://www.motocorse.com/sections.ph...icle&artid=191


Steve

My cousin speaks Italian, but I couldn't wait for him. I ran the text through altavista's babelfish tool which does a literal translation of the words, but leaves grammatical structure unchanged. It didn't translate a lot of words, but these are a few things it seemed to be saying. Totally paraphrased so accuracy is not 100%. Someone help! I wanna read this thing in its entirety:

"Finally, Kawasaki has woken up... The ZRX remains in the line-up, but now it is placed side by side with the extreme, sensual, stimulating Z1000.... The handlebars are traditional naked, but everything else is pure sport... The tank is beautifully sculpted and also well-researched, as it allows you to comfortably grip the tank without crushing your package... The footpegs are rearset, comfortable and discreetly low, and the seat is tilted forward. This causes you to lean in toward the tank for a more aggressive seating position... The steering is too nervous. Weight distribution, steering geometry, seating position, it's difficult to characterize why it is so. The steering is light and ready, perceived as very loaded. But the more that it is pushed, the uncertainties vanish. When at first nervousness appears, that it seems to suggests precaution, very soon transforms in agility and effectiveness on the compound: one beautiful center, Kawasaki!... About the engine - in the low range the power distribution is very clean, at 5000 RPMs the power rush begins, at 8000 RPM it means business and continues, decided but balanced, that extends until the red zone at 11k."

So I guess they are saying the steering is too quick (like the 954RR maybe?) but other than that it's good stuff.

I copied this from the article.
Ecco, insomma, un bell’esempio di ciclistica sportiva!

i think this says---This, in summary, is a beoutiful example of a sport motorcycle!

If the Z1000 performans as well as they say it does throughout its power range it will be a hit.