Description
For sale by Auction on Saturday 7th July 2018, at Sledmere House, Sledmere, Driffield, YO25 3XG. Commencing at 12 noon.
Registration number B570 JJV.
Frame number EN450A-005988.
Engine number EN450AE005554.
The Kawasaki 454 LTD was produced from 1985 to 1990, also known as the EN450; it was the forerunner of the Kawasaki Vulcan. The engine was a precise copy of the Kawasaki Ninja 900s, with two fewer cylinders. The Kawasaki 900 had a 908 cc engine. Removing two cylinders from the 4-cylinder divided the number of cc's by two. Included was liquid cooling, the bore and stroke, the double overhead camshafts, and four valved per cylinder. This gave it a great deal of power for its size, redlining at 10, 000 RPM while delivering 50 horsepower. The 454 is considered a good starter bike for having a low seat height and lightweight, as well as an efficient use for counterbalancing to limit vibration. The Kawasaki 454 is well known for its acceleration, having raced against a 454 LS big block Chevrolet Corvette and beating it to both 0-60 and the quarter mile by more than a second. It was discontinued in favour of the Vulcan 500 in 1990, with no increase in horsepower despite the larger engine size. The reason for the switch to the nearly identical early Vulcan 500 was that manufacture of the 908 cc Ninja had ceased in 1990, and was replaced by the 500 cc Ninja, and thus there were no more 908 engines to have two cylinders removed from to turn it into a 454 engine.
This example was purchased by our vendor in 2011 and used occasionally, the mileage increasing from some 32, 000 in 2012 to 32, 773 when viewed. Underused he has decided that he would rather look for a British bike to replace it.
Sold with the V5C and an MOT until August 2018.
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