1972 KZ1000 my ass

Sometimes you just stumble across stuff on google.

www.policemotorunits.com/id236.html

Top two photos look pretty obvious they are not KZ 1000's. They look like plain old CB 750's.

Looks like honda cb750s to me anyway :laugh:

Yup Hahondas. Love to have one

I'll take the one in the blue one piece in front of the red dodge in the 4th pic down :evil:

[quote="BlackZ1R" I'll take the one in the blue one piece in front of the red dodge in the 4th pic down :evil:[/quote

She's thirty years older now, are you sure about that :side:

The Z1 was introduced in 1972 but were 900cc. When the Kawasaki engineers were testing it "code named New York Steak" they put Honda 750 side covers and tanks on them so they would be stealth and look like Honda's. They rode across the country a few times doing factory shakedown runs before production. The pics are hard to tell but the motor is the tell all since they intentionally made them look like Honda 750's. I can not tell if the pics are indeed Kaw motors or legit Honda 750's. Cool old pic though


An interesting read

www.classicbikes.co.uk/machine1.html#Z1


Here is a pic of a couple of Norther Territory Honda 750 cop bikes in 1972

All I gotta say is that absence makes the fart go honda. And those are farting hondas unless kaw disguised their bikes so much so that every piece was honda cloned.

They do look like Honda's but my eyes are to bad to see the motor

Kawickrice wrote: They do look like Honda's but my eyes are to bad to see the motor

The hell with what they look like, they didn't make the 1000 until '76.

andy9802gt wrote:

Kawickrice wrote: They do look like Honda's but my eyes are to bad to see the motor

The hell with what they look like, they didn't make the 1000 until '76.

I know but who is to say the caption is correct?

Kawasaki did make a 900 in 72 and they also dressed them as Honda 750's before production. So the pics probably are Honda's because I doubt Kawasaki would sell a Honda clone to the cops. All I am saying is Kawasaki did try to fool people during pre production testing by disguising them as Honda's

bluej58 wrote: [quote="BlackZ1R" I'll take the one in the blue one piece in front of the red dodge in the 4th pic down :evil:[/quote

She's thirty years older now, are you sure about that :side:

try 40 years older... 8-80, blind, crippled or crazy :evil: :lol:

Those are honda 750s without a doubt

wireman wrote:

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Those are honda 750s without a doubt

Ya if you look at the pipes the run mostly parallel the KZ run more toward each other down to the collector. Positvely Honda