Around 36 years ago, a film came out with a dashing young US Navy aviator, who rode a bike that was already somewhat iconic. This became the bike that every young biking man (or woman) wanted to ride and look like: the cool dude aboard was called Maverick and he was riding the Kawasaki GPZ900R A2.
Now with a small delay (more than 30 years) the new TOP GUN Maverick film has wowed so many. If you haven’t watched it, you should. It’s a brilliant sequel and in the first five minutes of the film there it is, the original TOP GUN bike in all its aging iconic beauty.
It was right at this point in the film that I said to myself that I would become that man Maverick and that I would get such a machine up and running and that the TOP GUN GPZ900R Ninja would ride again. Now, I know Tom
