Congrats to all involved, the day went well and truely exceeded my
expectations. Getting the test rides (250ninja, ZX14R and VN900 for
me) organised really made it worthwhile, although the Race Team
talk/Q&A was excellent too.

... and Kawasaki went a little overboard with the goodie bag, lots of
merchandise!

Sean

--- In bikers_anon@..., rayzx6 <rayzx6@...> wrote:
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> Hi BAers,
> Firstly a big thankyou to Andre (membership coordinator) for all
your work behind the scenes to make this day happen and to those at
Kawasaki for putting in your time on a saturday to make this day the
success it was.
> The day started off with 12 of us taking in a group ride from
Chatswood to the Kawasaki warehouse at Rydelmere while the rest of met
us at the venue. For those of you that were Ba group ride virgins I
hope you had fun. Jason (secretary Yellow Gt650) led us on our way and
we arrived to Kawasaki banners, some groovy green furniture and some
shiny kwaka bikes in the car park outside the warehouse. It was nice
to get there and have a chat over a hot drink and thaw out a bit. For
some of you that attended it may have been a surprise to you that we
were able to do some test rides so I hope you were stoked. We all
nominated  what bikes we wanted to test ride and after discussing the
ride route the fist group got ready to ride. For me it was the
beautiful green 08 ZX10r and Fi sat on the back to test the pillion
seat. It was good to see some people try a bike they would normally
not ride, Bill looked super cool on the VN900. The ride route was
around 8kms long
> with a little opportunity to twist the throttle a bit. The first
group came in with smiles and handed the bikes over to the next group.
We were able to have 4 groups go out all up so I hope everyone was
satisfied with the bikes they got to ride. I was able to take out the
Vn900 out with Andre as bitch which was fun. Next was a bbq which
Kawasaki had put on with some yummy sausages and drinks and
discussions on the merits of the bikes we had just ridden.
> After lunch we were shown a presentation on Kawasaki's history and
also some of the other things kawasaki manufactures. What would the
world do without Kawasaki, From making ships, powerstations, superfast
(of course) trains, rocket and spacestation components, helicopters
and aircraft engines to the tunnel boaring machines used to make the
english channel tunnel. And who could forget the wonderful range of
motorcycles and jetskis most of you would know kawasaki make, All
this to make the world green : )
> The presentation also had a little overview of motorcycle components
and a simple explanation on how they all function.
> After this we were given a tour of the warehouse and shown workshop
of the Kawasaki race team. We were able to see Zx10r and Zx6r race
bikes in various states up close and had a talk by Dave 'radar' Cullen
and Superbike rider Shannon Johnson on the workings within the
kawasaki aus superbike team. It was pretty cool to see up close a
motec equipped Zx10r superbike also.
> The end of the day was now upon us and we said our goodbyes and were
handed a nice little green goodie bag. A had a big grin on my face as
I saw everyone leaving with a little bit of kawasaki green on
them and big smiles.
> A big thank you to everyone that attended today and also a huge
thanks again to all at Kawasaki Rydelmere and Shannon Johnson for your
efforts to making this a very enjoyable day.
> Ray (Zx6r green meenie)
> prez
> I will now close my eyes and dream of the green '08 Zx10r
>
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