Zed Heaven!
Anyone who has ever met me will know that I am a massive Zed Head. To me the Z1 series of bikes are the most aesthetically pleasing bikes ever created.
Not just does the mere sight of a big Zed make the manliest of chaps go weak at the knees and get all emotional, they are also a very practical, fast form of transport.
In the 1960s the affluent US market was key to making money out of making motorcycles. KHI (Kawasaki Heavy Industries) was well aware of this and set up a project team in 1967, headed up by Gyoichi ‘Ben’ Inamura, with the code name N600, which gave no hint about the way it would change lives forever. Initially the bike was to be a 750cc inline four with double overhead cam-shafts. Japan’s
