hi guys
I live in Greece i own a ZZR1400 '08 with 47000 km. I bought it on July 2020 and i am the third owner. I have a full service book from the previous owners and the 47000 km are real. A few days ago while i was riding my bike and i was going 190- 200 km/h with 6th gear i had a very rough noise from the engine. I managed to stop with a cloud of white smoke around me. All the right side of the bike was covered with the engine oil along with the rear tire. When we opened the engine in the workshop we found that the cause of the problem was a broken screw on the connecting rod. We found a used engine to replace the broken one but first we are going to replace all the screws and the bearings they are in the connecting rods and the crankshaft with new ones before we place the engine in the bike. I considered myself very lucky or even blessed to be alive and i am very anxious about the future with the ZZR. What if it happens again? it seems that they are not so bulletproof after all.I'm thinking very seriously of buying a new bike but on the other hand i am not eager to spend a lot of money.

GDay JIMRIDER.

You and I are amongst the extremely rare breeds who have had a 14 engine let go while street riding.
As you are doing, I replaced the blown engine with a 2nd hand one and had no further issue for the remaining ownership of that bike.

I know it doesn't fix your issue, but feel at ease that pretty much everything on the 14, especially the engine is brilliantly designed and although you were extremely unlucky the chances of a repeat are negligible.

Nothing that is high performance is 100% bulletproof, but I reckon this engine is about as close as you are going to get.

Unfortunately, welcome to a rare and unwanted club!

* Last updated by: yannih on 3/19/2022 @ 1:10 PM *

If you bought it new, you'd know every revolution of that bike. Revving piss out of it thinking it's cool, but who knows if that one bolt took a stretch during whatever the previous owners did one day. From then on it was a lit fuse.

Way to many years have gong by and where are the engines letting loose. That's a lot of bikes for all those years. Rare are the short fuses. 200km is my average off ramp speed... on a slow day.

Besides, you can't find this kind of power from any other manufacturer in the industry.