Thanks for hosting this site folks. I have been looking at it for a couple of months now and finally decided to take the plunge and join.
As a teenager I hung around and then worked at a Kawasaki shop in Deadwood, SD. That's just next door to Sturgis. Bought my first 100cc 10 speed Kawasaki trail bike before I had my drivers license. Mostly owned dirt bikes and almost all Kawasaki. Did have a 500 triple for a while. Working at the shop had it's advantages in that I road everything Kawasaki built in the 70's. Stopped riding after I sold the 500, so until this year, I had not ridden since about 1979. I always wanted a 900 LTD. Since it was time for my mid-life crises, I did one of the more stupid things of my lifetime. I bought a 900 LTD off Ebay. It looked fairly good and was advertised as having original paint and nice chrome among other things. The second it rolled off the truck, I knew I had spent too much money. After an unsuccessful attempt at dispute resolution on both Ebay and PayPal and with some encouragement from my wife, I decided to fix the old girl up. By the way, don't count on paypal to help out, They told me that I got a motorcycle so I got what I paid for. They told me, and I quote, "if you had bought a motorcycle and received a rock, then you would have a claim." Anyway, I will be chiming in on the forum and asking questions as I restore probably the greatest bike Kawasaki ever built.
Post edited by: 76LTD, at: 2007/01/01 19:45