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Title: KR 500 dail up warning
Post by: Lozza on November 01, 2007, 12:00:46 pm

Kork Ballington showing off his beautiful rare and legendary KR 500.
Sounds ah sounds very hmmm woody ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojeq3iu4HrY

Enjoy

Title: Re: KR 500 dail up warning
Post by: Doc on November 01, 2007, 12:30:55 pm

Lovely piece of engineering but one question..where does Kork live? It looks and sounds like oz  :-\ a good friend of mine has a nice autographed pic from when he was world 350 champ (I think) he's on a 350 kwack anyways  8)

Title: Re: KR 500 dail up warning
Post by: Lozza on November 01, 2007, 07:43:33 pm

Kork and his collection have lived on the Gold Coast for quite a few years

Title: Re: KR 500 dail up warning
Post by: Freakshow on November 01, 2007, 11:47:00 pm

couldnt here the pipe over the dry clutch  :D

Title: Re: KR 500 dail up warning
Post by: mx250 on November 02, 2007, 06:48:45 am

A beautiful piece of engineering and Kirk's comments, those that I could hear, were interesting. Especially that it made good power, as good or better than Honda, Suzuki and Yamaha, but weighed 25kg too much. I wonder why Kawa didn't further develop the beast ???. It obviously had potential. 25kg couldn't be that hard to lose  ::)

But it sounded crap - at least at the low rpm he demonstrated. Kirk seemed a bit reluctant to 'give it the berries'. Pistons and mechanical must be non-NOS and hard to come by  ::) ;D

Thanks for posting Lozza. Thanks to Kirk for the vid. :) ;)

Title: Re: KR 500 dail up warning
Post by: Lozza on November 02, 2007, 03:46:16 pm

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

Graeme it's KORK not typo

 ;D ;D ;D

I think being a side spinner helped with power delivery which negated  the weight penalty a bit.