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How about upgrades to 1075cc on a 5 bearing crankshaft with 31mm smooth bore carbs...Now your talking...

The Z1 is a masterpiece of art.

The Honda Goldwing came out in the 70's so your statement that the Z1 was the biggest and baddest Superbike of that time is false

Well it’s 2023, and a 73 Z1 just sold at auction for $50,000!

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Had a 75 Z1, loved it for 60k miles. Now own a 82 LTD 1000, love it as well! Thank you for the video. 😊

I need a Time Machine

I had the Kawasaki Z1A 1974, it was around 12 months old at the time. Very powerful machine but I was nearly killed or seriously injured four times due to high speed tank slappers that would just start for no reason. new Dunlop tires, Koni suspension, Kawasaki steering damper etc etc made no difference. The ill handling stopped suddenly when I bought a race spec Rickman Kawasaki S+S tuned 1100, absolutely amazing. One half of the S+S was Russell Savory of Honda Racing fame. A black and gold monster with an open pipe and Keihin carbs that would wake the dead and I never found the top end on always trying to rip your arms off. Those were the days.....

I had one of these I traded in a CB500F4. That I should have kept. This was one expensive bike to keep on the road. Chains, sprockets and Pipes were only transitory members on our trips. It was great in trips and I put 60k miles on the bike before I got t-boned at a light.

Yeah, it was a sad time in the 70s for English motorcycle and car production and i guess that played a big part in why the English people many times and still do make bad jokes about other countries vehicles brands when their own went down into the grave. They never managed to get it right with bad vehicles with low quality and old products still presented as new and things like that usually stay as a thorn in the side for a long time. Still have my Z1 but compared to my second generation Hayabusa it was a bike from another time who still back then was light years ahead of for example Norton and other British dying bikes.

Saw one in a shop in Auckland. New Zealand brand new back in the day

Out of the 250.000 people that watched this vide 249.500 where so amazed that they where incapable to hit the like button.

Good friend of mine..Mario Susco from Belgium..did all the same and even more than Arto..with a Yamaha FZR Genesis and a Suzuki GSXR1100 from 1990 until 2000...he did many impressive stuntshows all over Europe..wheelie's @ 260km/h..and more..He had a Kawasaki Z1300 and wheelied the bike also..without any problem..he is 59 now..and still drives and wheelie's bikes..

I like Steve's enthusiasm. Obviously the big Z is a land mark bike but don't knock our Brit iron as the big Commando wasn't a bad bike and indeed very handsome. This is when Top Gear was a proper program before the three fuckin stougies took it over and turned it into some kind of circus act..

Look this man can! A fueller 1300 is just the answer for these party tricks...awesome! Nothing like a Z13!

Nyykkä on kuningas isolla K:lla

I have a Z1 900 1975 I’m thinking of selling I bought it back in 1988 I still drive it it goes like snot but I bought a goldwing because I’m getting older now and I’ll probably drive it more often

I had no idea they made a turbo 900 that was only sold in america? Crazy! I own a Gpz 750 turbo and inherited my dads 1975 Z1B 1075 myself and love Zeds to bits! Long live the Zed :D

Hoped for more look and feel of the original Z900. Like engine sound and so on.

Song there?

Unbelieveable!

just bought the z900a4, £4750,wrong parts in places buying bits from dave m on here, it's never about the money with these bikes 😊

KZ650 SR... mmmm

7240£ !!!! so cheap :))) now is like 10K in 2016

Artsi is a proper Finnish motorcyclist, i reacon.

what a horrid accent the guy has... says the owner of a Z1 since 1975 :-)

Maybe all true. however, when these were around if there was anything with more poke than my H2 with pipes and Denco`s would you write and tell me what it was !!!. Urban thirsty burner I know but I was never even near blown off whilst on that amazing rocket ship Honda eater. Hang on tight. H2 Strokers ?. Unbeateable at the time.

No Zephyr´s??

I just listed on e bay my 1975 Z! 900 , it was my dads , No reserve 9800 original miles !

I had that 900! biggest mistake I made selling her.

Was interviewed on the telly last month or the one before

I actually worked on the bike. The later fuel injection one was turned slightly richer to accomodate for the long wheelies. The indicators were taken off and the outermost mufflers. Otherwise the bike was completely stock. The reason the "Möhkö"(translates into something like "Lump") Is so stable is the simple matter of weight and gyroscopic effect of the reasonably heavy wheels

Wow, that was the shit!

Accept that you did not intend to insult all Brits. You words did not reflect your intention. I am a bearded veggie biking non-smoker. The main presenter on Top Gear attacks all of these traits regularly. They like to make cutting remarks in the name of humour. The format works well as the programme tops the BBC sales figures around the world. Not justifying them, just that I have learnt to not rise to the attacks I could take personally. Go in peace 171:-)

I wasnt insulting you.. It was the speaker in the video. If they are british and are talking about a car or a bike they are always so smug and insulting. I watched another video about a 1969 Dodge Charger and the woman that was driving it was talking all sorts of shit about the design. saying it certainly isnt worth the money and that its just a big pile. Once again.The dodge charger is one badass car. Not saying all british people are dicks. but every one of these Top gear videos was insulting.

What is a "Jammy Pige gitah suluh"?

Strange comment to make about Brits! I am English and don't think my comments were insulting. Quite ironic that you insult a whole nation when you complain about them being insulting. I agree with your comment about them being bullet proof and raised the bar to a new level in their day.

God I remember this on the box!!!

That bike!! Lovely!

He is from Finland. Very alive and exercise group of motorcross. Now 53 years old.

I have Kawasaki Z 1100 ST, my uncle gave it to me, and i'm totally happy with it. But my dream is Z 1300 =)

Yea! I used to own a 71 BSA lightning, and remember push starting it many times, (after it would'nt start with the foot crank) but was a reliable mototcycle after I got it going! loved that motorcycle!I used to work at the BSA/Triumph/Norton dealer back in the late 70s, (it was my dream, back in those days) and learned alot about keeping it reliable and how to build a suped up verticle twin motor(BSA)by the old geezers that had been in that buisness for 40 years, that owned the shop.

What a Wally! = NO EYE PROTECTION!

@alanbstard4 Yea, I suppose your right! the 850 was one of the lightest (420lbs) production bikes made, capable of 120mph. I always blamed my friends deaths to the Nortons bulky (all motor) low look.

@alanbstard4 The Norton was a very heavy motorcycle,(remember two guys that got themselves killed on those, different incidents, going around a corner on a windy road in the Texas hillcountry back then.) The Z-1 was very rideable! (I recall mine having a cool sounding exhaust whistle at low RPM's when in gear and riding down the road, that I'll never forget!)

Why is it that British people always fucking insult? Kawasaki has created a bike that i have yet to see anyone else make. The Duckbill and bullet proof engine design? sorry man, havent seen that on anything else. They were and are the most original manufacturers out there.

@draymannorfolk He´s living .Sells motorcycles. First driver who wheelies rocket 3, just for challenge...

I remember him from the 80's, he once bet a downhill skier on slalom course on his Z13

don't try this with ya scooters..

Vidun himo! :D