The human obsession with motorcycles began in 1885, about a decade after the invention of the four-stroke Otto Cycle engine that still powers most models. Kawasaki made its first motorcycle engine, the KE-1, in 1953 at its manufacturing facility in Japan. By 1963, Kawasaki B8 motorcycles were dominating at race tracks in Japan, and in 1966 the American Kawasaki Motorcycle Corp. was founded but changed its name to Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. in 1968.  The Kawasaki Z1 — an
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