Some new bikes are dropped into the market and left to fend for themselves, but not the Z900RS. The moto press hasn?t even tested the new Zed yet, but a couple of pre-production models have been hiding in Deus? Sydney workshop for a few weeks now.
Right here is the first factory sanctioned Z900RS: an edgy, muscular custom called ?Stone Tracker,? revealed a few hours ago in Australia.

Kawasaki reached out to Deus about three months ago, several weeks before the Z900RS was made public. It?s the first time Deus? star builder Jeremy Tagand has worked with Team Green, but it?s a neat loop in his career: 20 years ago, Jeremy was an apprentice at the famous French Kawasaki dealer Technic Moto.
His bosses were Pierre Briane and Patrick Long, who cut their teeth running the workshop of Godier Genoud, the legendary endurance racing team of the 1970s.
?The brief was pretty vague at the start,? Jeremy recalls. ?They wanted two very different builds based on the Z900RS. Then the discussions became real, and we were given guidelines. A tracker version was on the cards.?
A pre-production Z900RS arrived at Deus, and Jeremy and designer Saxon Shing started researching possibilities. ?I gave Saxon lots of ideas and photos of what I wanted to build, what was in my mind. Saxon produced a perfect render that I could work with.?

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