Kawasaki Sportsbike Riders Club - Australia - Online Forum

by **MickLC** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:53 am

In the Dec 2006 Classic & Motorcycle Mechanics magazine there is an article on a cafe racer that a guy made from a Norton Featherbed frame and a Kawasaki W1 650 engine. The blurry piccy below is from the article and I apologise for the quality cos I took it with my camera phone.

In the article it says "The fuel tank is a manx design which was finished by the owner in metallic silver and adorned by the now obligatory 60s Kawasaki emblem". I really liked the look of the emblem and was thinking of some things I could do with it, but the images in the magazine aren't really a lot to go off.

I did a bit of a search around the net to see what I could find out about it, and from what I can find out it's one they adopted for a while in the 60s, after taking over Meguro, that combines a bit of the Meguro's original double M(?) and a circular logo Kawasaki had...maybe with an M for the Meihatsu. Of course nothing had any pictures of the logos, just vague discussion about them.

I also found a badge on ebay that shows the logo in the middle of a flag, so it's definitely Kawasaki.

So I'm wanting to find out what people know about the logo, what other early Kawasaki logos you know of etc.

Here are some of the examples I have managed to find.

by **ozx6r** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:36 pm

http://www.xpressmart.com/thestore/303.html

contains some patches with the logo you have shown but it doesnt say to much about them exept they are from an old bike shop.

by **Gosling1** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:44 pm

Mick - they are great photos, back in the 70's and 80's, when you bought genuine Kawasaki parts you could still find the old 'double M' logo on the packaging.

The Kwasasaki 'flag' emblem is from the aircraft connection (ie the Mother company).