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Honda CX500 Turbo (1981)

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Honda has the technology to make your next superbike lighter, stronger, faster. The future is now.
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Honda CX650 Turbo (1983)

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The 1983 Honda CX650T fulfills the promise last year's Turbos couldn't keep. Honda has come a long way toward defeating limp off-boost power and turbo lag, making the 650T a splendid Grand Touring bike that thrives on back roads as well as on highways.
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Honda GL1000 Gold Wing (1977)

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The Gold Wing gets some refinements, misses others.
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Honda GL1100 Gold Wing (1980)

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What it lacks in excitement is made up for by excellence.
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Honda VT750C (1983)

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Here's the Honda version of The Look That Made Milwaukee Famous. If you think the styling of the VT750C Shadow is radical, Brother, you don't know the half of it.
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James 149cc M16 (1966)

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Of course, the James M16 is a bread-and-butter job, the sort of bike usually seen propped against railway signal boxes out in the wilds; it doesn't pretend to be anything super. But there's always room for a reliable little utility machine at the right price. Cheapest British-built motor cycle on the market, the James costs £123—and what could be righter than that?
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James: Sparkling New (1956)

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Mediumweight Model with 249 c.c. A.M.C. Two-stroke Power Unit : Composite Frame and Many Intriguing Features.
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Kawasaki GPZ750 (1982)

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How to Build a Better Motorcycle When the Best Isn't Good Enough.
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Kawasaki H2 750 (1974)

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It seemed like a good idea at the time.
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Kawasaki KZ1000 LTD (1979)

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Raw-boned; street-tough.
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Kawasaki KZ1000 ST (1979)

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Welcome aboard the Orient Express, the gentleman's Z-1.
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Kawasaki KZ1000 Z1-R (1978)

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The Big Silver Streak—a classy mixture of time-proven Z-1 underpinnings outfitted in stylish new cafe trappings that are as refreshing as the Nestea plunge.
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Kawasaki KZ1100 (1981)

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A dash of high-performance thinking turns a mild-mannered touring bike into an 11.6- second super tourer.
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Kawasaki KZ1300 (1979)

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Enormous Bulk and Steamroller Power Combined Into A New Kind of Motorcycle: the Luxury Superbike.
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Kawasaki KZ400 (1974)

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Honda followed its successful CB-350 with the CB-360; Kawasaki followed it with the KZ 400. Kawasaki's imitation is better than Honda's.
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Kawasaki KZ400 (1979)

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The original commuter scooter has been improved.
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Kawasaki KZ650 Custom (1979)

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As advertised: bite-sized proportions and full-size performance.
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Kawasaki KZ650 Four (1976)

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What looks like a Z-1, is nearly as fast as a Z-1, handles better than a Z-1 and costs a bunch less?
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Kawasaki KZ650SR (1979)

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Saturday nights you can see them. Profiling at the drive-ins. Taching up at redlights on the strip. Cruising past bars. Customized motorcycles are the heavy-hitters on the cruisin'-for-burgers circuit. Choppers, fat-bobs, LTDs, Specials, candy-apple streamlined babies. Whatever their handles, the heavily-styled customs turn heads and command attention.
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Kawasaki KZ750 (1978)

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Oh, that reassuring rumpety-rump of a solid vertical twin…
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