1991 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-7
Miles: 21,500
Asking: $10,000
Where: FB Marketplace (Massachusetts)
SELLER
Selling my 1991 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-7 w/ 21.5k miles. Bike is incredibly clean and very original. The bike has never been down, steering stops are intact, bodywork and tank are in impeccable shape for an unrestored original paint bike.
This is an incredible example of one of the green Kawasakis that got so many of us hooked on this sport. I’ve babied the bike in a heated garage, starting and riding barely once per year.
The bike runs great, fuel system is well sorted (no clogged anything).
The bike is not “perfect”, but it’s a solid 9/10 or better. It would require very little to get it to perfection if that is your goal. Non-OEM items on the bike include a full Muzzy race exhaust, a fox shock, and a non-original clear windscreen. In terms of defects, there are some very minor cosmetic nits here and there that you’d expect for an original 35 year old bike. I’ve done my best to show these in the photos. A scratch on the right side fairing just below the seat, some paint flaking on the very bottom of the right fairing, and a repair on the inside of the left nose that appears to have resolved the beginnings of a stress crack in the fairing.
Happy to answer more questions for serious buyers.
RSBFS
This is the bike that made a lot of us want a green Kawasaki before we even knew why. The J-model ZX-7 landed in 1991 with USD forks, a lighter chassis, and a reworked engine. It’s also the same nameplate Doug Chandler rode to the 1990 AMA Superbike title for Muzzy Kawasaki, with Scott Russell following it up on the homologation-special ZX-7R in 1992. That Muzzy can on this one isn’t just a period-correct mod, it’s basically a costume nod to the real thing.
Facebook Marketplace listings are always a little thin on detail, so if you want the deeper mechanical story on this platform, we covered the ZX-7R K1 homologation special back in 2018, worth a read since the standard ZX-7 and the R share a lot of DNA but not everything.
$10k for a clean, original, 21.5k-mile J-model with some race pedigree flavor isn’t crazy money for the segment right now. Would you keep the Muzzy and Fox shock as period-correct character, or hunt down OEM parts and put it back to stock?
Good luck to the buyer and seller!
A friend had an R with a complete titanium Muzzy exhaust. The organizer of a track day was told they would shut us down if the that bike turned another lap because it was so loud.
The stock shock on this is JUNK. Hats off to the Fox shock, these can be rebuilt if ever needed. I saw a guy in Germany who had just shipped his bike over and it had a Muzzy race pipe on it. The German police found him and made him walk home.