kawasakifreak77
CB750 Member
Don't kill me for my screen name guys!
I been wrenching on mostly old jap fours for half my life, which isn't much. But still.
Most my street bikes were Kawi KZ650s:
My first one:
Pretty stock, just stripped down & tuned very well.
The second one:
Complete frame off, hybrid LTD / GPz750 engine, laced Triumph late model aluminum hoops to the stock hubs, guiliari seat, etc.
I've got a third frame from Co that's waiting on a balanced hybrid early KZ650 / LTD750 engine while the second one waits to get an 8 second ex-drag Z1 engine swapped in.
I bought a 636 new & crashed the hell out of it. Made a fighter & rode her for years:
Gutted to nothing but two tires & an engine I crossed the nation twice on her & saw the Canadian Maritimes.
Sold her to get a 10R which is currently getting fightered:
She's got carbon fiber wheels, custom bobber Z bars, a one off pipe I had welded up along with traxxion dynamic suspension with Ohlins springs.
So that explains the screen name.
BUT... I started racing flat track a couple years back on a stock XL350.
That's a whole bunch of ugly right there, I know. But I started getting towards the front of the pack on a beater with basically no racing experience.
The winter after the first season, we tore her down. Punched the motor over 1mm, got a front wheel that weighed less than a boat anchor & painted her up to at least look like a real race bike:
It took me two years but I finally won my first race at last year's TT.
So now I'm building a Cheney frame:
There you can see my old tail dragger. Me flying up to my part time sponsor / full time buddy's place in Ia:
Who sometimes lets me ride this bad boy:
A Maico framed XL386. When you fire that thing up it feels like it'd going to come apart at the seams, but once up to speed it's like a sewing machine. It's really an amazing bike & it can get me to the front...
I just need to learn how to stay there:
So that brings me up to now.
A riding buddy of mine had this old Honda. And boy she is sweet, but we could never quite get it to run right. Sitting down for lunch & a beer the other day out of the blue he asks me if I'd like to buy it. I really don't need another bike, but I simply couldn't resist:
Customed out in '78 with a Denco pipe (which sounds AMAZING) & Lester mags she's been unchanged for 35 years. I am not a chrome person & if it were up to me she'd get rattle canned black with a healthy dose of paint chips from blasting down river trails but I want to keep her as close to period as I can.
In a couple weeks I've got her running good enough to reliably get to work. Just dialing in the overall package now. I'm accustomed to working on old Jap fours, just a little rusty at it so I'm gonna pilfer around & see what I'm forgetting.
There's been several other bikes but those are the significant ones. A Katana, two LTD400s, two H1 Kawi smokers, a Kawi F8, a KL250, another KZ650 & a Honda scooter but those were short lived. Some never ran, or I either blew them up or totaled them out.
Ya'll have a good one.
-Outlaw.
I been wrenching on mostly old jap fours for half my life, which isn't much. But still.
Most my street bikes were Kawi KZ650s:
My first one:
Pretty stock, just stripped down & tuned very well.
The second one:
Complete frame off, hybrid LTD / GPz750 engine, laced Triumph late model aluminum hoops to the stock hubs, guiliari seat, etc.
I've got a third frame from Co that's waiting on a balanced hybrid early KZ650 / LTD750 engine while the second one waits to get an 8 second ex-drag Z1 engine swapped in.
I bought a 636 new & crashed the hell out of it. Made a fighter & rode her for years:
Gutted to nothing but two tires & an engine I crossed the nation twice on her & saw the Canadian Maritimes.
Sold her to get a 10R which is currently getting fightered:
She's got carbon fiber wheels, custom bobber Z bars, a one off pipe I had welded up along with traxxion dynamic suspension with Ohlins springs.
So that explains the screen name.
BUT... I started racing flat track a couple years back on a stock XL350.
That's a whole bunch of ugly right there, I know. But I started getting towards the front of the pack on a beater with basically no racing experience.
The winter after the first season, we tore her down. Punched the motor over 1mm, got a front wheel that weighed less than a boat anchor & painted her up to at least look like a real race bike:
It took me two years but I finally won my first race at last year's TT.
So now I'm building a Cheney frame:
There you can see my old tail dragger. Me flying up to my part time sponsor / full time buddy's place in Ia:
Who sometimes lets me ride this bad boy:
A Maico framed XL386. When you fire that thing up it feels like it'd going to come apart at the seams, but once up to speed it's like a sewing machine. It's really an amazing bike & it can get me to the front...
I just need to learn how to stay there:
So that brings me up to now.
A riding buddy of mine had this old Honda. And boy she is sweet, but we could never quite get it to run right. Sitting down for lunch & a beer the other day out of the blue he asks me if I'd like to buy it. I really don't need another bike, but I simply couldn't resist:
Customed out in '78 with a Denco pipe (which sounds AMAZING) & Lester mags she's been unchanged for 35 years. I am not a chrome person & if it were up to me she'd get rattle canned black with a healthy dose of paint chips from blasting down river trails but I want to keep her as close to period as I can.
In a couple weeks I've got her running good enough to reliably get to work. Just dialing in the overall package now. I'm accustomed to working on old Jap fours, just a little rusty at it so I'm gonna pilfer around & see what I'm forgetting.
There's been several other bikes but those are the significant ones. A Katana, two LTD400s, two H1 Kawi smokers, a Kawi F8, a KL250, another KZ650 & a Honda scooter but those were short lived. Some never ran, or I either blew them up or totaled them out.
Ya'll have a good one.
-Outlaw.
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