The old 4 cylinder Dinosaur

TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH I LIKE THE ATTENTION WHEN YOU GET OVER 50 WELL THEY SAY YOUR OVER THE HILL BUT WHEN I ROLL UP ON MY BIKE IT PUTS ME BACK ON TOP.AS THE OLD SAYING GOES ITS A EXTENION OF MY PENIS:huh: :dry: AND I AM BLESSED TO HAVE 5 BUDDYS WITH KZS TO RIDE WITH DAMNIT SEE IM LOSING IT I WROTE THIS IN CAPS :silly: IAM NOT REWRITING IT SORRY ALL

its all good JEFFG1
us over 50 truly understand

got a 75 Z1900 when i was a juinor in high school. it wasnt a year old when i got it and i loved that thing! had it for 15 yrs and put a lot of money in it but ended up selling it for a wedding ring.(yea i know) Just restored a 76 kz900 for my 16year old son and he rides with me.got both boys riding with me now and thats great. im riding a harley street glide and i love that thing 2 but I do get on the kaw from time to time. would like to restore an z1 for me if i can find the right candidate.

I bought my '78 KZ1000 in 1983 "BC" (Before Children) Had not been licensed since '94 until last summer. Since July '10, I put over 10K miles on her. I too have been amazed at the number of people commenting or passing on the highway and giving a "thumbs up" as they go buy. The wife wanted me to sell it many times but I just had to keep her (and the wife too). So glad I did!!!!

I gotta chime in here, last winter(10-2011) money was tight, and the wife says to me we should figure out a way to cut back because of the gas prices, next day, at Home Depot,(job) I casually ask an older guy if he has any bikes for sale (he has about and he says "yeah, matter of fact I do, 79 Kawasaki KZ750 that I'd been tinckering with for a few months, but could never get to run, I'll let you take a look at it and tell me what you think" so a week goes by and I ask him if he can bring it to work with him one day, he says, sure, I tow it home, CHANGE THE PLUGS, fires right up, I quuickly call him to ask what he wants for it, he says well I got 350 in it, but for you, I'll take 325, I immediatly drive to his place with cash, then I tell him what I did, and he has since offered me 500 I keep saying no.. sorry to ramble on, but this is the single BEST investment I have ever made, and alot of you guys helped me get her runnning as good as she does, so THANK YOU ALL. even though mne is only a two cyl.

AMEN...... Sometimes the younger ones ask me if it is a new bike, I tell them it will be 39 years old in September 2011 (4 digit serial). How many other bikes can be worth more than 5 times their original showroom sell price when they are 39 years old, and can still kick A## over a Harley twice it's size?

Haha yeah I hear ya! Someone came up to me and honestly said "I didn't know they made a reproduction model of those old Kawasakis." I said, "Nope, no reproduction, this one is 35 years old!"

PS- this was halfway down the Baja Peninsula, just outside Guerrero Negro.

I had my 80 kz 1000 for 31 years i remember when it was invisible. This past year my cousin and i decided to take his 12 year old son up to americade with us.Every were we stoped people will come up and check out my bike. everybody has a story and i like hearing them. On the fourth day my godson came up to me and asked me why nobody talks about my dads bike. So i explained to him what a classic was.I said to him i will leave my bike to him when i go.He just smiled and said i think your bike is cool.Made me smile we have to get the younger kids interested in these bikes.

Yup, 81KZ1100 and I've owned a few bikes, this is the only one I've had strangers (four so far) say something when I was out. I'm talking total strangers, out of the blue saying something.
All my pals, neighbors, you lugs like it granted. But I'm talking the sort of thing where I'm turning left in the middle lane, a guy at the + intersection who is also turning left- hits his horn, rolls down the window and yells "HEY", then when I make eye contact trying to figure out wtf is going on, I get a thumbsup? THATS never ever happened. I'm just enough of a narcissist to really get off on that (over 50+ crowd here too)
Interestingly enough, there is a 79 or 80 KZP still in the white I've seen, and an 82? (that red color twin to mine) that pulled up behind me tooling around town.
I didn't notice the 82 till I'd made a left turn and looked back at traffic. I'm wondering if he's an inmate here?