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£1,800
1975 Kawasaki KT250, 246 cc. Registration number LCP 822N not registered (see text). Frame number KT2 01488. Engine number KTE001552.
Kawasaki began building motorcycle engines in 1949 as an offshoot of its aircraft engine operation. The company, as Meihatsu under the Kawasaki umbrella, began producing motorcycles in large numbers beginning with a 148cc, 4-stroke bike in 1953. For the next 10 years, they built standard street motorcycles and in 1963 they developed the off-road dirt bike B8M Motocrosser.
The Red-Tank Furore, (the 1963 125cc B8M motocrosser) cemented Kawasaki's off-road credentials by winning the Fukui Prefecture Motocross and Hyogo Prefecture Motocross tournaments in Japan. The 250cc 2-stroke F21M model, the offspring of the famed Red-Tank Furore, debuted in 1967, winning a series of off-road races throughout Japan.
This KT250 was used for trials riding from 1975 and last taxed in 1977. In dry storage since this highly original machine will require a rebuild before campaigning again.
Sold with a V5 although it is not on the DVLA database.
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