KR 500 dail up warning

[Lozza]

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

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

Enjoy

[Doc]

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 

[Lozza]

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

[Freakshow]

couldnt here the pipe over the dry clutch 

[mx250]

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 

Thanks for posting Lozza. Thanks to Kirk for the vid.

[Lozza]

 

Graeme it's KORK not typo

 

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