1987 Kawasaki KLR650 KL650-A1 Brochures

Have you ever notice how many of the Kawasaki brochures being sold on eBay have been 3-hole punched? While some of them were probably punched by an individual that is not true for all of them.

Sometime in the late summer or fall, before the new models start to arrive, Kawasaki sends new sales binders out to dealers. These binders contains lots of sales and marketing information and a copy of each new brochure. Sometimes the final version of the brochure is not actually ready at the time the binders go out. When this is the case Kawasaki mocks up a preliminary version.

Here we have the preliminary version for the new-for-1987 KLR650 (KL650-A1) followed by the actual sales brochure that followed days or weeks later. The back of most preliminary brochures usually looks more like a brochure but maybe without a picture. This one is even more basic.









If you toggle between the the two front images you can tell it is the same picture of the KLR. The dirt background is just added which I suppose is no surprise.

Many of the items I will post on this blog are from Kawasaki sales binders.

Thanks for looking. Gary  /  kawasaki-yama-zuki