SPECIAL DELIVERY
Welcome SPECIAL DELIVERY THIS MONTH’S ISSUE has a bit of a ‘specials’ feel to it. At first take, this month’s cover bike could be mistaken for a BSA-powered ‘Norbsa’ but builder Garry Laurence was looking for something very different and opted for a W-Series motor which was produced by Kawasaki from 1965 to create a stunning café race which could be termed a ‘Norasaki’... The Japanese engine architecture came from Meguro, who Kawasaki commissioned originally to create a BSA A7 replica twin, then developed their own W-Series, through the W1, W2 and W3 models, until 1974. Garry’s latest superb build compliments his earlier ‘Spirit of the Sixties’ specials which we’ve featured before in CB – but this one is definitely a very unusual and unique hybrid, the like of which…