Finland Z1300 Club

Finland Z1300 Club

Last Update  12/21/2012

  83' Z1300

   85' ZG1300

Information of the bikes: 
Owned by Ripa Ovaskainen, Hollola, Finland
E-mail: ripa_ovaskainen@msn.com

Both are original finnish bikes, the black - 83' Z1300 with carburetors and the red - 85' ZG1300 with DFI. 
The 85' is in its original shape except the (short cut) exhausts.  Driven only 45 thousand kilometers. 

I guess there are still about 100-200 Z1300:s left in Finland.  The bike was very popular in 80´s and nowadays it is still highly respected (you can drive anywhere with it, even to HD-meetings!).  One reason for the 79' - 80's success was a Finnish show driver Arto "Artsi" Nyqvist, who made amazing stunts with it.  The most famous and distinctive trick was driving and hanging on the grab bar with wooden shoes on... 

   Owned by Toni Uusiniitty - tuusinii@cc.hut.fi

You are welcome to use my pictures on Your site.  You can find them here - http://www.hut.fi/~tuusinii/epyora.html http://www.hut.fi/~tuusinii 

On my site there are other pictures and additional information about me.  And about the 1300, its 1986 model and is almost original, only the side back added.  And as said it belongs to my father and the bike has over 200,000  kilometers under its belt.  And approximately half of it with EML sidecar.  The bike has taken the kilometers well. Last year it was completely rebuild after missing a gear in 180 kph.   And that made little damage to a couple of the gears and so it was completely rebuild.

  Owned by Heikki Penttilä
heikki.penttila@logisto.fi