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1976 Kawasaki KZ650 Four - 10-Page Vintage Motorcycle Road Test Article
Original, vintage magazine article Page Size: Approx. 8\" x 11\" (21 cm x 28 cm) each pageCondition: Good
Think of it as a squeezed-down Kawasaki Z-1,Or as a Honda CB550 with muscle-power,Or as a 750 snorter—with short legs.• The small Z-1 was Inevitable: successbreeds Imitation. And if you want to talkabout success as measured in the worldof commerce, complete with sales chartsthat go climbing up-and-up and bottomlines that have figures big and black, thenconsider Kawasaki’s Z-1. The King Su-perbike has been a King Money-Maker.So it seemed natural that Kawasaki, amanufacturer who made it in Americawith performance, would return to thewell again after building the KZ400 andKZ750 for the lunch-bucket market IfKawasaki hadn\'t built a compact Z-1,someone else—as we know now—would\' have. And did.In the hard world ot commerce,achievers get imitated, and the imitatorsget Imitated. There is developing, after. all, a kind of Universal Japanese Motor--Cycle. The Great Moto-Japan Factorybrings out these mechanical clones, con-ceived in sameness, executed with preci-sion, and produced by the thousands.The clone-print is well known: tranverse,air-cooled, in-line four-stroke, single-ordouble-overhead camshafts, four cylin-ders, five speeds, disc brakes, silentmufflers, perfect electrics, interlocks,outerlocks. Idiot lights and safety slo-gans—and so on to the next clone. Sneernot; the concept is widely applied be-cause motorcyclists vote for it with theirmoney. Yes, there\'s progress; second-generalion machines are usually betterthan the first-generation ones. With U JMsit\'s repetition that improves the breed...13639-AL-7611-04
