One other component that Fisher is especially proud of is the floating front brake rotors, also built by Roaring Toyz. Traditional floating rotors utilize a carrier that is riveted directly to the rotor surface, a construction that greatly complicates a customizer's ability to chrome, paint or otherwise refinish the carrier. The new Roaring Toyz rotor, by comparison, fits into the carrier from behind and is held together with a single, oversized circlip that allows the rotor and carrier to be separated in seconds and any finish to be easily applied to the carrier. Finishing off the trick front brake systems are billet Performance Machine radial-mount calipers and custom stainless lines from Galfer.
Underneath the fairings, the 1352cc motors are mostly stock-owing to the fact that, as mentioned before, Fisher didn't even have a service manual available and he wanted to make absolutely sure that the bikes would be running well when they hit the streets for Bike Week. He did, however, rig up a wet nitrous system to the green ZX-14, with a purge valve located in a novel position-dead-center in the middle of the upper fairing's central air duct. Both bikes are fitted with the just-released Moira full exhaust system from Boz Brothers, the new aftermarket company launched by well-known roadracing brothers Ben and Eric Bostrom. "I was really happy to connect with the Boz Brothers and get the first ZX-14 exhausts that they built," Fisher says. "Exhausts are a big problem on fat-tire bikes because normal exhaust systems don't have the clearance necessary to work with the wider swingarms. The Boz exhaust exits from the lower fairing in front of the rear tire so there are no clearance issues, not to mention that it looks great and is a little bit louder to attract more attention, too."
To say that these two bikes attracted some attention during their debut in the Kawasaki corporate display at Bike Week would be an understatement. "The Kawasaki guys were very, very pleased with our work," Fisher says. "I don't think they expected us to take these bikes nearly as far as we did." And of course, the custom sportbike fans were even more enthusiastic-for many of them, the opportunity to see the ZX-14 in person was one of the most anticipated moments at Bike Week, and it's fair to say that no one was expecting to see two customs in addition to the production bikes. Jaws were dropping all over the demo area, a scene that was repeated tenfold every night when the Roaring Toyz crew took the pair of bikes out to custom sportbike hot spots like the Hess Station, where the bike freaks could see (and hear) them in action.
Kawasaki did it right this time. The company certainly made an impression with the new ZX-14 at Bike Week this year, and thanks to plenty of hard work by Roaring Toyz and their partners, it was a BIG one.