The biggest news for 1977 was Kawasakis official entry into the snowmobile business.

First year kawasaki jet ski. These were mass-produced boats to be used by only one rider. Kawasaki originally started as a shipping company and evolved greatly after that to making planes helicopters machinery bridges cars motorcycles and finally in 1973. This watercraft was the prototype of the Jet Ski that Kawasaki developed based on an idea put forward by American inventor Clayton Jacobson II.

In the pre-Estoril championship standings Jonathan has 340 points his only remaining championship rival Scott Redding 281 Chaz Davies 222 Michael van der Mark 203 and Alex is on 179. Kawasaki worked tirelessly to promote its new product through racing waterfront stunt teams and appearances on television and in movies. Kawasaki Jet Ski Story 1975.

He has now scored four podiums in his first year as a Kawasaki rider including a win at the opening and only long-haul race meeting of the year in Australia. Developed from an idea created by American entrepreneur Clayton Jacobson II the first twin cylinder stand up WSAA and WSSB skis first saw water commercially in 1973 in very limited numbers. 1975 Already with an understanding of racing as a promotional tool Kawasaki establishes one of its most famous racing partnerships that between Mick Grant and the fearsome 750cc H2R two stroke three cylinder racing machine.

If playback doesnt begin shortly try restarting your device. Speed trapped in later years at over 190mph on the Isle of Man TT course the H2R in both early air-cooled and final water-cooled guises was instrumental along with motocross. With patent back in hand Jacobsen went to Kawasaki which brought out its model in 1973.

It was bogging a little at the start before this happened. Go on enjoy yourself. Stand-up PWCs were first produced by the Japanese company Kawasaki under the Jet Ski brand in 1972 and appeared on the US market in 1973.

It was a known problem. In 1973 Kawasaki released the worlds first mass-production Jet Ski watercraft the JS400 which created a new market. However at the end of last year I was riding it and it cut out at full throttle.