What was your 1st Kawi?

[Fixitmann]

1978 KZ400... Looked like this one. Picture is not of mine.

Still got my second 1980 KZ750E1 bought brand new.

[ZEERX]

Here's mine. I think it was a 1967 250 Green Streak. Picture was taken in 1972 at Cannon AFB, New Mexico. No kick stand so I always had to lean it on something. I didn't know it at the time but it was a real piece of crap.

[greg58]

My first Kaw was a 78 650 SR, it was a beautiful metalic red. A fun bike and quick.
I had a triple before that but it was a 74 Suzuki GT380 Ram Air!! It was also quick, I remember eating up a 550 Honda 4cyl. with it.
Every thousand miles or so it needed new NGKs.
Greg

[420crew]

1973 z1 900

[RexinVB]

My first Kaw was a new 1980 KE 175.

[1008]

The 1973 KS 125. Check my avatar.

[zudikaszrx]

1975 KH 400 S3 Triple Green.

[punk rocka]

not exactly old school, but my first Kaw was a 95 Vulcan 800. I loved that bike; made me wonder why I hadn't owned a Kaw before that one

[DWReX]

1986 KX 80 Thing was for a scrawny ass 13 year old's 1st bike. Eventually put a big bore 105 kit on it before moving on to the 125...

[<No Comment>]

G4

[wrchas]

My dad bought a KZ650. It was the fiirst motorcycle I ever rode. My brother and I bought rode it. We both wrecked on it. That was...... a long time ago.

My oldest son started off with a series of smaller bikes but his first Kawi was a Z1. Brought it home in the back of the truck. He told me to go look at it. But it wasn't there. He said it was. So I looked in the bed - it was all in boxes

[kazman]

1979 KZ1000E shaft drive, back in '84. Note 10 sticks of 1/2" x 10" emt strapped to the side! Coke bottle for a safety flag.

[JohninVT]

My first Kawasaki was a 1978 KZ200 that my father bought me for my 17th birthday in 1986. It was mint and had 2800 miles on it when I got it. I rode that thing for years and years even after I had other bikes. I put 18,000 miles on it. I've never owned a slower motorcycle but I've also never had as much fun on any of the faster ones as I did on the KZ200.

[stocksj]

An 82 KZ750E3. Best bike I ever had until a garbage truck rolled over it in 84.

[Joefech]

1980 KX 80. I still remember the first time I hit the powerband and flipped it over..

[hdmotoman]

'69 H1 then a '72H2. Sold the 500-Couldn't afford it back then because I had to come up with the $1350 that it cost to buy the H2 in '73, new in the crate,
as a "hold over" from the previous year. Wish I still had the H1. Still got have the H2.

[Zammy]

G4

They seems to be a bunch of us that started out on the MIGHTY Trail Boss !!!!

[Groovydoobie]

wow, don't know how i missed this thread for so long...here's mine

'79 kz1000st

[mbleft]

1999 ZRX 1100. I got a late start.

[jaydav]

1975 S3 400 -- looked close to this one pictured

[cruelcheffy]

1980 Z1R, wobbled like hell through fast corners.

[Frewil]

A Maroon 1974 S3 400 Triple that my brother bought new in October of 1974.

He would up in the Hospital from pneumonia and I was asked
to brake the bike in for him.


About three months later he sold it to me............I was 17
and the owner of a rip roaring snarling mini Beast.

[CanuckHelo]

EX500 1992, nice first bike.

[1TXbiker]

1982 I bought the motorcycle of the year... GPZ 750 and I rode the wheels off that bike... sole tranporation for 7 years rain or shine...

[Redlite32]

1975 Z-1 900 drag raced it for a while but sold it when I needed $. Then moved down to a H1 500. Ended up running prettly good (10.70's). Sold it and moved up to an H-2 in a bushel basket. It ended up running 9.20's. Sold it to build a house.

15 years later came the REX. What a difference a few years made in bike technology.

[pacman1]

1991 ZR550 Zephyr

Great bike. Stupidly sold it to buy a H*nda.

What can I say? I was young and stupid.

[Lau]

89 600r ninja. new.have to look for pics

[lou12]

i just sold a gpz 900 1984 and replaced it with a rex..... no comparison!!!!!!!!!
love my zrx 1200! best bike i ever owned!

[XS650RR]

83 GPZ1100 .....

Similar to this beast out of Japan .......

[green12]

wow, don't know how i missed this thread for so long...here's mine

'79 kz1000st

Mad Max?