Z1300, KZ1300, ZN1300 and ZG1300 Site Map

		Z1300 Site Map

Last Update 6/2/10

These are the top 3 pages I constantly send people to because they don't spend enough time reading this site before they email me asking a bunch of questions. Most times, the answers to some or all of their questions are on one of these 3 pages:

#1) Links Page - First place to look for 1300 parts providers, other clubs, motorcycle shippers, etc., as I give this page top priority on the site as new info becomes available! Updated as I have new info - usually 2 or 3 times a month!

#2) FAQ Page - Questions and answers compiled over the years from 1000's of posts off the old tech BB, discussion groups or emails. Updated as I have new info - usually once a week!

#3) Tech Article Page - Specific technical articles on our bikes. Updated sporadically whenever I have something to add - usually 4 or 5 times per year.

Picture Ads - Paid Ads section for bikes for sale with pictures. Can include parts bikes or parts.

Parts For Sale - Parts or parts bikes I have for sale with high resolution pictures and thumbnails.

Image Files Site Map - Image files all thumb-nailed and sorted by year and by country! The largest depositor of Z1300 images on the net at 10,000+ files and growing between KZ and ZN domains!

Paid Member Section - go to this page for more info on becoming a paid member and getting the DVD's or your @kz1300.com email address (membership renews in October of each year).

Search Engine - The search engine works just like any other on the web, but it searches just within the kz1300.com and zn1300.com domains. It returns text searches only, you can't search for image names or URL's, but it can be a very effective way of finding just the information you're looking for as it searches all the bulletin boards and archive files (as I add them).

Contact Us - Info about the founder of the KZ1300 USA Club and his bike(s), contact information, and how to pay for parts or make donations for memberships!

Audio/Video - Short .mpg file (sound/video) of our bike starting and revving up. Opening this file in your browser may hang some computers depending on how your browser is configured to handle a .mpg file. It may be better to use the option to save the file to your computer's harddrive first, then open it. You might need to right click on the link to access a "save" or "save as" feature on your browser so you can save it to your PC. I also have a .mp3 sound file the was submitted by Julian in the UK of his Z1300 running through the gears and a CBX running through the gears for comparison. Here again, for some of you it may be better to save the file to your PC first, then play it.

Allen Millyard's 2300cc - KZ1300 x 2, V12 project in the UK. AWESOME!!! Check the UK site in the International section for more pictures. Here's a good youtube video with a good sound on the engine running.

Current Site Statistics

Site Managers

The following people should be contacted if you need help with part of the site that they manage. We're all just volunteers here and if you see someone with an email address with their name@kz1300.com on the site, that means they help other members with various day to day functions or in some cases, they're a paid member. I offer "yourname at" kz1300.com addresses to all paid members or contributors that have contributed at least $50 (yearly) towards the support of our website (renews in October of each year). You'll be able to use your new 'at' kz1300.com email even though you may change your personal email address from one service provider to another as it is a forwarding address, and I will update it whenever you change your address from one service provider to another.

All but a few of these @kz1300.com addresses are forwarding email addresses that forward your email to their respective regular personal email address. In other words, you send an email to clyde@kz1300.com for example, and when he answers your email he'll reply using his personal email address, but the reason for doing this is so you'll recognize who works on the site as a volunteer in case you need some help with that part of the site. Also, volunteers don't necessarily have to be paid members or visa versa. If you'd like to become a volunteer or paid member with your own @kz1300.com address, please contact david@kz1300.com

david@kz1300.com - David Ewing, Club founder and main administrator over all club affairs from the Houston, Texas area. Lately, it hasn't been uncommon for me to spend an average of 2 - 4 hours or more a day just answering emails off this site. I hope to cut this back as more info is put on to the FAQ page and more tech articles are done. In the future I hope to do narrated tech articles on DVD.

Marie aka 'the wife', is the 2nd in command on the site though most of you have never run into her yet. Marie has helped with html, images, site design and file management issues, backups, etc. Marie rode with me on the first Rally and you can see more of her on the Rally 2000 page. She was at the Rally in Wisconsin also.

Patron saint to all 1300's - paul@kz1300.com - 'aka' Paul Bezilla our club tech guru from Manitoba, Canada. Paul will accept tech questions if need be, but you should always post first to the tech bulletin board. The other reason for this is that I take all the old tech posts and use them over on the FAQ page as a resource for everyone. If I don't see the question and answer, then the rest of us do not benefit from it. Paul specializes more on the KZ1300 models and not the ZN1300 Voyager models. The engines are basically the same, but that's about it. Voyager questions should really go on the tech BB or the Yahoo.com discussion Group as we have quite a few Voyager riders and maybe one of us will know the answer.

Tech FAQ page - I'd like to recognize Travis Denardo from Minnesota for helping rewrite the FAQ page on it's last major update in 2002'. His work is what you see on the FAQ page. He's taken 2000 - 3000 posts off the old Tech BB and composed them in a question & answer format to enlarge our FAQ page considerably. For those of us that work 40 hour weeks, that's at least a weeks work, maybe more. I know, I've done it before. These days I just update the page on a daily basis so it doesn't get out of hand.

NOTE: On these newer browsers I've noticed that they don't always display my large images in full size when you open an image from the thumbnails. Once you click the thumbnail and open the larger image, if you 'mouse over' the image you should see a " + " symbol or some other indicator like a box with arrows usually on the bottom right edge of the image. If you click on the indicator, then the image will expand to it's full size which displays full screen on computers that use a 800x600 resolution setting for the monitor. If you click the indicator again it will go back to the smaller image. Some people use a resolution setting of 1024 x 768 or higher on their monitors and for those users the images will appear smaller in size instead of full screen. You can change your monitor settings easily enough if you desire. Also, the indicator I've noticed is slow to appear even after the image appears to of completely loaded. The indicator in Netscape seems to be a lot faster to display than the one in Internet Explorer.

Many of the images on this site are 750 pixels in width which should display 'full screen' in most browsers depending on what your browsers resolution is set at.

If you email me or send a post to this site, consider yourself as a member since you either have a 1300 or parts for sale, or you're looking to buy a 1300 or parts, or you have some relevant information pertaining to this motorcycle that you'd like to share with us. Though we do have a paid member section of our site, there is no cost involved to be a member if you just want to submit a tech question, a free or paid ad listing, or be listed in our database for the rally notifications or email updates I send out once or twice a year.

I do use any info that's sent to me on this site as I deem useable and you can have your full name, email or contact info posted if you wish. As people ask tech questions I put their questions and my answers on the FAQ page for the benefit of all. Take your time and visit for a spell!

It should go without saying that the info on this site is relevant for the Z1300, ZG1300, KZ1300 or ZN1300 though there are some major differences between the bikes. In general on this site when I refer to KZ1300 parts, this is more similar to Z1300 parts not ZG1300 parts or ZN1300 parts which are totally different bikes in most aspects. Almost all ZN1300 parts are unique just to the ZN1300 Voyager. Even the motor has some internal differences.

Here's some guidelines on what will go on each bulletin board.

Tech Questions Bulletin Board

This old BB has been replaced with the FAQ page which I update on a regular basis. Most tech questions I can answer, and the ones I can't I forward to Paul. We're going to assume that anyone that's seriously looking for answers to a problem they're having has already done the proper diagnostic routines that the manual gives them. Some times we may refer you back to a page in the manual. I've seen manuals sell as cheap as $10 to $15 on Ebay.com, and that's where I buy mine. I don't like talking to people that don't have a manual but want me to tell them how to fix their bike. I don't know how people think they can fix this bike without one. They're usually the guys that break things.

Considering how much wasted time is spent responding to questions only to have to state the same things all over again, please have some consideration of our time before you ask redundant questions that are already answered on the site. Scan through the FAQ Page, Links Page, Tech Tips or Tech Articles first. Use one of the 2 search engines if need be! It's the best of any 1300 site for technical help on the web today.

Please feel free to respond to posts if you have useable information to give. I use the information from the discussion groups and even email replies to add to the Technical FAQ page. Take Note - if you send me an email with a question, I may use your question and any answers you get on the FAQ page or elsewhere. Unless you ask to have your full name and email displayed, I just put a name and last initial by the question and answer such as "Stephen T.", "Troy C." or "Paul B.", etc.

Home Page - The main entry page and the link to use if you're giving someone the link to this site or - http://www.kz1300.com/ There's also a link to a motorcycle webring here and I have some links where I give free advertising to companies or entities that I think are deserving of it whether it's related to 1300's or not. None of these entities support this club.

KZ1300 International Club - The KZ1300 USA Club offers to share our site with 1300 enthusiasts worldwide!

Members Bikes USA - Pictures and info that USA members have sent in. Send me yours!

Tech Articles - Specific technical articles on our bikes.

FAQ Page - This is a list of the most important technical questions and answers which I started from the 500+ posts on the first archive of the tech board in 2001. As of 2006, probably over 10,000 posts and email answers have been transposed to this page!

1st Annual Club Rally 2000 - Our first rally in October 2000 at Suches, Georgia, with the CBX Club!

2nd Annual Club Rally 2001 - Our second year rallies in NJ, Chicago, and other related pictures.

3rd Annual Club Rally 2002 - Wisconsin rally pic's for 2002.

4th Annual Club Rally 2003 - None held.

5th Annual Club Rally 2004 - Joined with the AVA Rally.

6th Annual Club Rally 2005 - Joined with the AVA Rally.

7th Annual Club Rally 2006 - Joined with the AVA Rally.

8th Annual Club Rally 2007 - Joined with the AVA Rally.

Help Page - For more specifics on posting to the bulletin boards or navigating the site.

General info on the club - Covers the basic info on the club and posting agreements. Read this page before you submit a post to this site!

Offsite Links

Z1300 discussion group on yahoo.com - A discussion group on all Z1300's moderated by Bill Rodgers.

Voyager 1300 discussion group on yahoo.com - A discussion group on Voyager 1300's moderated by Michael W. Fenwick.

American Voyager Association - The American Voyager Association is a group of riders brought together by their love of the sport, and in most cases, the Kawasaki Voyager motorcycles that they ride. Although they do concentrate on the Voyager model motorcycles (Voyager 1200 and Voyager 1300), riders from all makes and models are welcome to join them. They publish a bi-monthly newsletter (hardcopy) that contains travel information, as well as tech articles, a sale barn for your motorcycles and accessories, chapter news, as well as an array of other relevant information.

Keep in mind that many pages are still under construction and new ones will be added as needed, so check back often. It is strictly against our posting rules to use any email addresses contained on this site to mass market information to. All text, pictures, email addresses, technical information, or other material contained within this site remains the property of the KZ1300 USA Club. Express permission must be granted by David Ewing at david@kz1300.com for it's use outside of this domain. Thank you!

Enjoy!