The story of this special colour began at Daytona in 1968. The paddock was buzzing. Kawasaki had just rolled out their A1R racer – and it was painted a scandalous shade of green. At the time, racing was very superstitious, and green – considered extremely unlucky – was a colour everyone avoided. By deliberately choosing to use Lime Green, Kawasaki announced to the world that conventional thinking would not be a barrier to the pursuit of new challenges.
Where did you get that story from Jonno ?? Would be good to know it's origins.
Personally I've always preferred the original Green that Kawasaki used for their race bikes through the 60/70/80's,not so much the Green on the modern bikes, my own 05 ZRX12 being a good example.
Stuzrx wrote:Where did you get that story from Jonno ?? Would be good to know it's origins.
Personally I've always preferred the original Green that Kawasaki used for their race bikes through the 60/70/80's,not so much the Green on the modern bikes, my own 05 ZRX12 being a good example.
From the kawasaki web site home page
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Stuzrx wrote:Where did you get that story from Jonno ?? Would be good to know it's origins.
Personally I've always preferred the original Green that Kawasaki used for their race bikes through the 60/70/80's,not so much the Green on the modern bikes, my own 05 ZRX12 being a good example.
Been floating around for.. well way back when i a teenager, i first heard that
96 ZX7R roady
07 ZX10R tracky. to many mods to list here!
95 tickford XR6,
SO MANY KAWASAKI'S SO LITTLE TIME
I don’t care how liberated this world becomes – a man will always be judged by the amount of alcohol he can consume – and a woman will be impressed, whether she likes it or not.
Doug Coughlin (Cocktail)
Yup green was seen as unlucky- so was chewing peanuts- goobers as the Americans call them- Kawasaki racers from the 60s did both the colour and peanut thing. They commissioned an artist called 'Molly' (male and NOT Meldrum) to come up with the colour- brightest shade of green he could come up with.
2 X ZRX1200R 4 X ER6N, GT550, 1988 ZX-10, 4 X GPZ250R, 4 X GPZ900R and GPZ750R Yeah I like Kawasakis.
