Oh yea eliminators are very fast. It might depend on the area you are in because where I have been the Harley's are the bikes of admiration. If this wasn't so then why did so many people jump on having to say how much better theirs was. Plain and simple I got all the racing out of my system but I guarantee that the two vtwins I ride(one is S&S and the other is el Bruto) have more than enough to smack down pretty much anything except maybe a bosshoss.
The GPZ mentioned earlier depending on if it's a turbo or not is a little monster too, but still doesn't have the value of the American bikes. Eliminators are just great bikes just like the VMax. Comfortable riding position and a buttload of power and toque. But they still aren't the big American VTwins. Kawasaki found a good formula with the Zx1 or whatever it was, (they were kz900's) and were smart enough to not do too many changes
It's like the fast and the furious cars as opposed to the great American Muscle Cars. You can go real fast in a Supra but in a Chevelle SS 396 you don't have to.
Harleys are still Harleys here, too. But they're everywhere.
My Eliminator is unique; American cruiser style frame and seating with the 1000 cc in line four. People who don't know bikes like the styling; people who do know bikes like the styling and appreciate the performance.
I'm in the market for something newer and easier to get parts for should I need them, but I can't bring myself to trade the ZL and I know that its gonna be hard to match the perfomance. And although I don't want to race-go-fast all the time, I don't want to go from a Mustang to a Town and Country Wagon.
If Kawasaki reintroduced the real Eliminator line, I'd be lining up for the new one.