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Z1 Kawasaki: New York steak… well done.

August 14, 2020

It was late 1972 when the Z1 arrived in Australia, initially in very small numbers. But the Z1 story had begun almost six years previously at Kawasaki’s Akashi factory in central Japan; the task being […]

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Kawasaki Z1300: Let’s get physical

September 27, 2019

Such was the impact of the Z1 Kawasaki on its release in 1972, it could have been generally accepted that this was as far as conventional motorcycle wisdom would go. But no; within twelve months, […]

OBA Issue 37
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Ron Toombs – King of the Mountain

September 14, 2018

In one of the sport’s greatest ironies, Ron Toombs lost his life on the very circuit where he was the acknowledged master. Had Ronald Arthur Toombs still been with us, he would have turned 80 […]

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