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Hardly can believe we're coming up on 50 years since this video was made. My family would rent these in the late 70's and 80's up at Prineville Reservoir, Prineville Oregon. Just picked up a couple of 1994 Seadoos that were rode a couple times and put away. They look brand new. Learning about some servicing, and plan to get them running and my old ass on them soon!

I owned a Kawasaki Z1 900 I wish now I still have it . I sold that bike in 2003 . I did not like the KZ vary much .

Loved my standard '78. Rode that bike well into the 80s.

My 79 650 sr. Was a joy.

I had a 750 in 1974, I was 19 and it was very fast. Any trip longer than 2 hours would put your but to sleep and it didn't handle hard braking from over 100. Sold it before it killed me.

Oh man, this is pulling at 2 of my heart strings : Eddie Lawson & Kawasaki, particularly the KZ1000J❤

I bought a brown 76 KZ900 of the showroom floor for $2609.00 OTD, and would give anything to have it back! They were great bikes, but the 900 frame had a tendency to flex and get a little squirrely at higher speeds (above 105). At least that was my experience. ☮✌

I’ve got a 1974 G5 100 it’s very clean to love it

I love watching videos of classic motorcycle commercial. Lots of great bikes. Thanks to Koups Cycle Shop for posting this 12 years ago. They are still doing a great business today. I have done business with them for many years. Stop by and say "Hi" to Dave. I'm sure he would love to know that people are still enjoying this video in 2024.

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Now in 2023 the z400 retails $5,399.00 without dealer costs, and in Puerto Rico with import costs $8,995.00 plus $240.00 registration fee.😢

Can you remember when 100 cc was a decent size bike and a 250 cc or 350 cc was more than enough? hard to believe, when only a few years alter, it seemed everyone had a 750 cc and many pushed for 1000 cc. Today, 1200, 1300, 1500, or more is the way to go. Maybe it is just because the bikes got huge. This is a great set of commercials.

I can watch these commercials any day over the ones that are on TV now. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

play it at 1.25X speed

Back when weebs were bikers and not anime fans.

Thanks for posting.

I've owned and driven both the Z-1 and KZ1000J. I sold the "J" a couple years ago to a guy in Japan. After 40 years it's back where it came from. Although it was leaps and bounds ahead of the Z-1, both in terms of power and handling, out of the two, I kept the Z-1. In my opinion, two of the best bikes ever built!

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Is that commentator chewing a lobster?

KZ 900 was a beast

1980 Daytona sx …8..warren Reid…19..Jeff ward..27..Larry wosick…rocket Rex won on yam.his only career sx win in America. Rex was fantastic and a crowd favorite.he could ride.he contested the ama national mx series from 1972 through 1990.he also won the mx Championship of South Africa.

Vicki Farr!

Play at +1.25 playback speed 👍

1978 with V&H open pipe and open velocity stacks, dyna ignition. mid to high 12 second bike. thousands of 1/4 mile passes over 10 years and never a hiccup. until moving on to GS1100

I have a 73 And 76 400. The 73 has the hand laid hull. VERY retro cool

Narrator had too many Quaaludes

Kawasaki 100 was also one of the best selling business bikes in the Philippines back then to be used as motorized tricycles, Kawasaki went third since Yamaha was the best selling business bike that time, Honda was just second back then.

My dad owns a Kawasaki Ninja xx, if I remembered correctly of my dad's Kawasaki name

Speed up the sound a little 🐢

Team Green all the way!!! ✌️💚💚💚

750 discontinued for KH?

I had a 1975 KZ 400 in the mid 80’s. I was nice and drove in in Iowa ,Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Dependable for the most part except the charging system. It left me stranded twice. I also had a 1980 KZ 440 LTD belt drive and was a lot more dependable but very cold blooded.

Awesome video. Keep them coming!

If, back them you would roll out an H2

Why are their voices in slow mo

I had ‘75 KZ 400, ‘80 KZ440 LTD belt drive and ‘81 KZ550. Also had a Kawasaki KL250 on/off road bike. I got a ‘81 KZ440 LTD from my brother after he was killed on it. The 80 440 LTD he rode up to 44000 miles before it quit running and got the ‘81 so I took the engine out of the ‘81 plus all the wiring because it was different like electric ignition, self canceling turn signals and the like. The sold it. This was back in 1990.

Man the good old days as a teen my first bike was a 1980 KX80 my friends had RM80s YZ80s CR80s as a 13 year old i am proud to say i got to have kenny Roberts himself give me red and black leathers a kidney belt red and blue scott boots and he tuned my KX 80 in the summer of 1980 he showed me how to breathe when riding and to pay attention when racing i spent a lot of time at Malcolm Smith Enterprises in High Grove California i raced my KX80 for 4 years straight my dad being a hot rod gear head did head work on it and carb work other kids had a new dirt biki every year and they laughed at me for an out date kawasaki but when i out ran them i had the last laugh ill never forget what kenny Roberts taught me

I had a chance to buy a 1978 650 in 1988 and also a 1981 KZ 550. I rode both and the 650 was alright but the 550 had a high performance cam and a super trapp 4 into 1 exhaust. I bought the 550 because it was more fun to ride. Also the electronic ignition helped.

No need for a and mode it's silky smooth power mid range Revs

Awesome video. I hope koup’s more to post. Koup’s a local shop in my area!

I forgot all about that shot of the newlyweds riding side by side.

Just think thats a time way before they started sprays Chemtrails above us , you can thank Bill pedo Clinton for that

This guy sounds like his battery is dying

The KZ400 was an already lame slow bike so I can't even imagine adding a fairing & saddle bags!

Not Kawasaki invention nor development, that was Clayton Jacobson but producing and distributing he could not and therefore got paid peanuts in equation to the profits it brought Kawasaki.

1:44 We'll never see that on a new commercial

That synth solo!

That car they unloaded from… CLASSIC!

In 1986 I rescued a 1978 KZ650B2A from beneath a tarp in a back yard. I had earned my MC endorsement the previous year on a Honda CL450. A little elbow grease and TLC restored life to the KZ and it was a quantum leap above the CL. Four-cylinder power; halogen headlamp, 5 gallon tank vs. 2.5, comfortable seat, hydraulic front disc brake vs. cable-actuated drum. It was a well-rounded machine worthy of the Universal Japanese Motorcycle label.

The Goat!