Z1r Road Race?

Since I got my Z1r....a good friend of mine has been forwarding z1r pictures to.
And this one surprise me....never seen a picture of a z1r ever been use to road race.

That's what they were origionally intended for.

thats what I thought as well but pictures are hard to find .

Welllll. Stock, I don't think so.... Made to look that way. I ran against them on my 900. It was rider against rider.
Steve

Plenty of pictures on the web.
You must have been living in a cave if you have never heard of Wayne Gardner .
Just type in MORIWAKI Z1R on see what you get.

zed1015 wrote: Plenty of pictures on the web.
You must have been living in a cave if you have never heard of Wayne Gardner .
Just type in MORIWAKI Z1R on see what you get.

Don't forget the legend Crosby, John and Bill Crawfords (my Z1R was bought at the same time as theirs 1977 Dec), stop that I'm watering at the mouth

I said stock. My best friend Larry's built Exhibition Engineering 74 Z1a, would run away from us. He put $2000 in that bike and that was in 75. His family had money. Still he was a bum rider. :laugh:
Steve

a few pics,
























leon

looking back through them you may notice they all have different or modded swing arms. :whistle:


leon

Among other things. Didn't come out of the show room like them.
Steve

yes....but a lot of those are not from 77-78.
yes...all this bike come down to rider and not machine on a race.
back in 91...I had my 77kz1000A1 stock and a slipping clutch...an exchange student from Japan bout a Z1r. we race and I beat him by a few bikes. He than installed a 1105 kit came back to race me...by then I had replace clutch. and beat him again on the streets and Friday night races.
next time he came around he had a ZX1100 Ninga..ask me to race him...I said sure..let me call a friend. friend came over with a gsxr 1100 bored over to a 1350cc...Bike was Bret Turkington endurance race bike before he race for Yoshimura Suzuki.
Guess what...beat him again

I don’t remember much in the way of the Z1R being a popular choice as a roadrace bike. There were some 77/78 KZ1000A roadracers and a few 79 MKII, that were pretty cool. The 78/80 Z1R never had much interest in road racing. Of course there were lots of club racing around the country that I'm sure some guys ran them, but the AMA series and such, they never ran the Z1R. It was never known as a real great handling motorcycle even for its time.