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    In the beginning

    Feb 13, 2017 3 minutes

    As is the way, a search in the archive here at CDB for information for a different feature turned up a test of the first Kawasaki MXer in the UK when MotorCycle journalist Mike Bashford got his hands on one in November 1967.

    This feature was backed up by information supplied by Richard Metcalfe at Kawasaki UK who sourced some detailed background information initially used in Kawasaki’s Rider Club magazine to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the KX range. It would be no great revelation to say

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