Your Z – Gary Coon – Z1B
January 2021
Gary Coon bought this Z1B when it was brand new in 1975.
After almost 46 years of letting the good times roll, he has now sold it.
The new proud owner is Dong Sung An.
You can still check out Gary’s website, https://75kz1b.blogspot.com/
Photos taken near Triunfo Creek Park in Westlake Village, CA.
Here is what Gary says…
“I bought my 1975 Kawasaki 900 Z1B in the spring of 1975 at Robinson Cycle Sales near the Rochester, NY area. About 4 years later I moved it to Houston, TX and then to Redondo Beach, CA 5 years after that. Although the best motorcycle riding weather by far was in Southern California, I moved back to Pittsford, NY 10 years later. The riding season in upstate NY is somewhat limited and I managed to keep the mileage low during my 4 mostly snowbound years there. My final work and motorcycle relocation occurred 22 years ago when I moved back to California to live in Westlake Village.
The year-round riding is great here, but I look back on all of the different places I have ridden with a great deal of satisfaction anyway. There were only two exceptions, one was the guy in the old pickup truck with a gun rack that tried to cut me off on the freeway in Houston and the other was a woman in a Sienna van who darted into my lane to get to a gas station. Luckily I was just coming to a stop at the intersection and only tapped the van’s rear bumper. (And had the closest thing to a heart attack that I can recall.) I caught up to the pickup truck and flipped the driver the bird (with no Easy Rider result) and I pulled into the gas station and informed the clueless van driver about LOOKING and YIELDING the right-of-way. I have never liked the Toyota Sienna since then.”
You can view some of Gary’s videos at the following links.
Page added to website on 2nd June 2019.
Most recent page update: 29th April 2021.