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Eddie perfect

AMERICAN ACE EDDIE Lawson’s stunning superbike successes on the Kawasaki GPZ1100 prompted the factory to produce an Eddie Lawson tribute-bike, the Z1000R, in the early 1980s. And the launch of the ZRX1200R in the new millennium provided ample proof that Fast Eddie’s fame was still a potent drawcard for Kawasaki almost 20 years on.

The ZRX1200R really looks the part as a big, old-school, naked muscle-bike, wearing

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