AS A welder, fabricator and engineering shop owner, Trevor Dodds doesn’t mess about — he builds motorcycles from the ground up, methodically making sure they are right and doing something about it if it’s not.
So much so when he decided to slot his 1976 Kawasaki z900 motor into a 1977 z1000 frame he had a cold hard look at where over 40 years of history had shown where the tubular chassis’ weak points were and fixing them.
Then, when he could