whats up with this bike. i was on myspace and someone had one.  it looked sweet. pretty much like any other cbr but smaller.  then i went and googled it, yahooed it, altavistaed it, and got nothing at all.  is this a real bike?  in the usa? or what

never heard of it but I dont know a lot

I have seen a cbr400 for sale. They make them in Japan but apparently very hard to get in the US because they have to be imported and then jump through hoops to register them. This one was expensive.

The CBR400 had alot of power too. It has a DOHC four that gave out 53HP which isnt bad at all. More then our 500.  

http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=31762&Mytoken=20050208145055

here is the guy's myspace page.  he has his username as cbr300zx too.  he's from cali.  click the photo in the upper left to see his album which has some more shots

Quotehere is the guy's myspace page. he has his username as cbr300zx too.

Took a looksee.  The guy's ride is a CBR600RR.  With that info in hand, it sounds plausible that his handle is a morph of his bike and his cage--a Nissan 300zx.

ohhhhh. hmm had me stumped. lol.  i never would have picked up on it. that would explain the title of the picture of his bike and car together...

good job!

Just to toss a little more info into the pot on this--as far as I can tell, Yamaha was the only one out of the big 4 who didn't make a 400 sportbike. CBR400, ZX400R(I think), and GSX-R400. I believe Honda still makes a 400, although it's essentially a smaller Hornet(599). Suzuki dropped the little Gixxer in the early '90s and Kawasaki dropped theirs in '98.

Believe it or not, you can still find these bikes around, but they'll cost you as much as a similar vintage 600. They probably handle better than their 600 counterparts, but they're down on power(it was basically all late-'80s technology). The companies simply could no longer justify the cost of making them, especially when 600s were selling so well in the U.S.(and bigger is better, blahblah). Mostly you can find these for sale in countries such as Thailand and Singapore.

Quote from: GoferJust to toss a little more info into the pot on this--as far as I can tell, Yamaha was the only one out of the big 4 who didn't make a 400 sportbike. CBR400, ZX400R(I think), and GSX-R400. I believe Honda still makes a 400, although it's essentially a smaller Hornet(599). Suzuki dropped the little Gixxer in the early '90s and Kawasaki dropped theirs in '98..

I guess you did not do much research since Yamaha is the only company who sold a 400 class sport bike in the USA.   Suzuki and Honda did offer naked bikes based on sport bike motors during the late 80's and early 90's but did no offer a full sport bike to the US market. During the late 80's early 90's the FZR400 was sold in the USA.  The FZR400 had a alloy delta box frame and was considered the best handling bike sold in the USA during that time period. Maybe not the fastest but the was the closest thing to a race bike for the streets that you could buy at your local dealer.  While it's bigger brother the FZR600 had a steel frame the FZR400 had an alloy one.

In the USA Honda sold the CB-1 which was a naked bike with a de-tuned CBR400 motor and Suzuki also sold the Bandit 400 which used the GSX400R motor but also in a de-tuned state.  The Honda was also sold during the late 80's early 90's n the USA and the Bandit 400 if I recall was sold for a couple of years in the early 90's.

Around the world you could find a GSXR250, GSXR400 from Suzuki. Honda offered a CBR250, CBR400 both inline-4 sport bikes, VFR400, RVF400 both V-4 motors.  Sorry but I was never up on Kawasaki but do know they did offer a 400 class sport bike that was not sold in the USA.

thats a cbr600rr and 300zx...  i will post the pic in a sec.

edit: cant upload the pic to my server.. oh well..

i never knew that gixxer/srad ever came so small

Did quite a bit of research, but it's been awhile and I've never been terribly keen on Yamaha products. Either way, that's a lot of good info.

If I remember correctly, Kawasaki's 400 sportbike was the most powerful of the 400s offered. Then again, it's been proven that my memory's not that good.

http://www.suzukicycles.org/1990-1999/1993b.shtml That has some good info on the GSX-R.