Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook As a relative newcomer to volume motorcycle production, Kawasaki wasted little time in establishing itself as perhaps the most innovative member of what was then the Japanese invasion of the […]
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Jon Munn archives Talk to Jonny Munn at his well-established classic bike outlet Classic Style Australia in the outer Melbourne suburb of Seaford, and you’d never guess that this quietly spoken […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
