Towpack
Well-Known Member
Now here's something to lust after.....Z1A Not because it was the bike that put the final nail in the coffin of the British bike industry but because of the benchmark it set. The true Grandfather of the Superbikes we know and love today, usurping even the Honda 750F1 which beat it to market by 3 years. The Z1 engine is legendary in tuning circles, partly because of the ease of extracting huge power from it but mainly due to it's immensely strong bottom end thanks to a (massively over engineered some might say) roller bearing crank and rods. This would be the classic in my garage funds permitting. Their prices have rocketed in recent years. Each to their own of course.