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THE HISTORY OF SPEED: 50 years<br />
of wfo!<br />
VICTORY<br />
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THE baggER gETS<br />
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QUICKEST<br />
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Kawasaki<br />
ZX-14R<br />
Everything else is officially slow<br />
by Nick ieNatsch<br />
H<br />
istory will show that<br />
Cycle World’s first ride on<br />
Kawasaki’s ZX-14R happened<br />
at a dragstrip. Think back to the H1<br />
and Z1 of the 1970s, Team Green’s<br />
first pacesetters, for the pattern<br />
this company has developed: big<br />
horsepower, industry-leading ac-<br />
celerat<a title="85496_elite page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/745751a2?page=1"> THE HISTORY OF SPEED: 50 years </a>
<a title="85496_elite page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/745751a2?page=2"> Kawasaki ZX-14R Everything else is officially slo</a>
<a title="85496_elite page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/745751a2?page=3"> CYCLE WORLD TEST</a>
<a title="85496_elite page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/745751a2?page=4"> Crushing horsepower and incredible torque are pre</a>
<a title="85496_elite page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/745751a2?page=5"> to be. Newbies were shocked and scared and shocke</a>
<a title="85496_elite page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/745751a2?page=6"> ZX-14 owners didn’t want Kawasaki to change the f</a>
<a title="85496_elite page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/745751a2?page=7"> EDITORS' NOTES Could it be time for the DMV to </a>