70s Muscle: Santiago's Kawasaki Z1000 cafe racer

If the sixties was the heyday for muscle cars, the seventies was the era of superbikes. Cars that could run the quarter mile in 13 seconds were considered fast, but the Kawasaki H1 and Honda CB750 were equally rapid. Then the literbike inline fours arrived—like the Kawasaki Z1000. And the Camaros, Corvettes and 'Cudas were left for dead. Today, a mid-70s KZ1000 still oozes charisma. You can pick one up for around $3,000, and it’ll draw a bigger crowd in the parking lot than any modern superbike. What it won’t do, though, is handle like a modern bike. So Alain...