{"id":10597,"date":"2013-05-08T14:29:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T19:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=10597"},"modified":"2016-05-05T16:08:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T21:08:13","slug":"1973-kawasaki-z1-top-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2013\/05\/1973-kawasaki-z1-top-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"1973 kawasaki z1 &#8211; top speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since getting my Z1, I&#8217;m pretty obsessed with them.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t know, the Z1 was basically the hayabusa of the 70&#8217;s.<br \/>\nPretty sure it was the fastest bike until the early 80&#8217;s.<br \/>\nAnd, it was definitely the preferred pro drag race bike for a long ass time.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the bike does 140mph in stock form.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve only done 110 on mine so far.<\/p>\n<p>In 73, they broke a record doing 160mph on a basically stock Z1.<br \/>\nPretty badass.<\/p>\n<p>Watch these two videos from 1973.<br \/>\nZ1&#8217;s with clubman bars at Daytona breaking records.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yZOpFmB6hDU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<figure>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sHpsB5ll9DI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Below vid&#8230;<br \/>\nI found this out there and couldn&#8217;t help but post it.<br \/>\nRednecks get a Z1 running. Laugh my ass off watching this.<br \/>\nI love how the camera man yells at the z1 once they get it fired up. Ha.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gh1Ehw9YxOw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>I picked up a new seat for my Z1.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s basically the stock seat cut with a cafe dip in it.<br \/>\nBrand new seat pan, foam, and cover. All assembled, ready to bolt on. $160.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.z1parts.net\">Z1parts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/z1-seat-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/z1-seat-1.jpg\" alt=\"z1-seat-1\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/z1-seat-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/z1-seat-1-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/z1-seat-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/z1-seat-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/z1-seat-2.jpg\" alt=\"z1-seat-2\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/z1-seat-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/z1-seat-2-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/z1-seat-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/z1-seat-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/z1-seat-3.jpg\" alt=\"z1-seat-3\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/z1-seat-3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/z1-seat-3-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/z1-seat-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since getting my Z1, I&#8217;m pretty obsessed with them. If you didn&#8217;t know, the Z1 was basically the hayabusa of the 70&#8217;s. Pretty sure it was the fastest bike until the early 80&#8217;s. And, it was definitely the preferred pro drag race bike for a long ass time. Apparently, the bike does 140mph in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[223,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10597"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15556,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10597\/revisions\/15556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}