That’s gorgeous! Now I might have to buy another bloody bike to resto mod. I’ve got pretty much a whole GSXR750 slingshot in boxes too
It's a lovely example of it's time. I'd keep everything as it is and have fun explaining what a tape deck is to the kiddies. As for tonights ebay purchases what about: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304239778088
What a lovely looking motorcycle, it's so gay, that top box is to die for. I can smell the Brut from here. You lucky lucky bitch
My god she's beautiful! Seriously though, I'd leave it as is, you certainly know yours will be the only one there which ever bike meet / pub you go to.
I seee a huge business opportunity, foam insulate the panniers and sell ice creams out of them, you’ve already got the stereo for the jingle
Ahhh , a man with vision ! After all this ridicule we finally get a sensible answer …sign me up. I would have preferred my Village People tape was playing but I can make allowances I guess
So today I finally had some decent time to actually go over the bike and see what I’d bought. I have to say for a bike that’s 40 years old, never been recommissioned or tarted up, it’s absolutely mint. I mean I genuinely couldn’t find a single corroded bolt or fixing. The tools in the pouch are all genuine including the Kawasaki supplied tyre pressure gauge for check tyres and suspension pressure, and not a mark on any of them. I’ve had old mega low miles stuff before, but you could always tell it’s age to some degree… this just blows that out the water. I think I need to start buying my cars from Wyoming, they definitely have some form of super weather bubble there !! Today’s task was remove most the touring stuff and see what we were dealing with underneath. Happy to say the worst thing I was confronted with was dust and minor oil seepage stains from the usual cam caps on the rocker cover. Good to see they leaked pretty much from new haha. very pic heavy post so continue at your peril . I’m guessing ahead of time the forum uploaded will throw the pics on some random order. They are meant to be before and afters The front mudguard and rev counter pics were showing some mofo sticker residue that was a right pigs arse to remove !
I want to build a supermoto/flat tracker out of it, just something for me & Kerry to have lazy rides to the coast etc, my 1198 isn't the best to carry a pillion ;-)
Ok who took offence to my beautiful blue chaps and tight buns ?? It took me a lot of courage to pose like that and poof, it’s gone
I love it and the panniers Will be a talking admiring point when you take her out. Retro is my thing Go show her off to the world
Well tonight was a task I was both looking forward to and dreading in equal measure…. The carbs. Bike fires up and runs but runs much better on half choke meaning pilot jets were blocked/dirty. Carbs are actually very easy to remove, IF the airbox to carb rubbers aren’t harder than a donkeys nob, which most are after 40 years ! managed to wrestle the carbs out and currently have the rubbers soaking in some isopropyl/wintergreen oil solution which brings them back to new and super soft again. Carbs came apart super easy and were way less grotty than I expected. Externally you wouldn’t think they are more than a couple of years old tops, but the insides had me worried. I fully expected them to be full of hard tar like fuel residue… they weren’t. I also dreaded tackling the pilot jets as being brass and tiny, they usually just shear the heads off. These came out like butter, in fact everything came apart as if it was built yesterday. I really need to make sure I buy stuff from Wyoming, they really do seem to have some super climate there ! a few pics
