Z1 Kawasaki: New York steak… well done.
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 […]
Ken Blake
1972 Ducati 750 GT: Another beauty from Bologna
It seems everyone was building 750s in the early ‘seventies, but few were as pretty as this one. Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook • Original photos: Michael Andrews and Jeff Nield. By the time Fabio Taglioni’s […]
The Jesser Triumph: From milk bar to Mallala.
Beginning life as Ken Blake’s ride-to-work machine, this 1964 Bonneville went on to a string of victories including taking out consecutive Australian TTs. Story: Jim Scaysbrook with much assistance from John Lord, Glen Rose and […]
Len Atlee: Quite a career
Towards the end of the 1960s, a group of callow youths from the south of Sydney, though somewhat intimidated by the stories they’d heard, decided to take the plunge and ride their shiny new Japanese […]