Kawasaki made its name in motocross in the 1963 Motorcycling Federation of Japan (MFJ) competition, where riders on the company’s bikes took the top six spots that year. However, those first Kawasaki motocross race bikes looked different from the ones we see today. First, they had red-painted fuel tanks instead of the now-familiar Lime Green. In addition to the color, those early ‘Red-tank Kawasaki’ motorcycles had short travel front and rear suspensions, air-cooled engines, and very little of the molded
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