New member from cold and dark Sweden

Hello gentlemen.

My name is Linus and I'm from Sweden. I just recently bought a Kawazaki and found this amazing forum.

The bike is a pretty shoddy red 1981 z500. It's getting cut and painted into a café racer. This is my first bike project so I will surely ask for some help along the way. When I've collected some more pictures and made some more progress, I'll create a project thread.

Here's a picture for now:
www.dropbox.com/s/zi9tgmy1f8pg10q/DSC_0196.JPG?dl=0

Welcome, that looks pretty clean. I wouldn't hack it up.
Steve

Looks can be and really are deceiving. Both the tank and front fender have been painted with a paintbrush. There's lots of surface rust on the frame cleverly hidden by some new black paint that's chipping off. There's really not a market for these bikes in Sweden, if it was a 650+ I wouldn't cut it up like this though.

Welcome Linus...looking forward to the transformation

Hi Linus,
Welcome to our little internet corner of motorcycle madness.

Good Ridin'
slmjim & Z1BEBE

Welcome from the land of Oz

Welcome, who are you calling gentlemen? I work for a living.

It's nice to see another representative from Scandinavia. I'll try not to use words that are too fancy.

We have many members from northern Europe and the UK here as well. I'm sure they'll be very helpful in sourcing parts.

Cheers for a loving welcome guys!

Please do use fancy words as much as you can, that way I learn I can always google stuff I don't understand.

Welcome to the asylum :silly:
Be warned, you have begun an addiction for which there is no cure. It will suck up all your time and take over all your space. There are not enough krona in all the kingdom to buy all performance parts and shiny farkles that your addiction will demand. During those long dark weeks while you await the next overdue shipment of parts you may find yourself squatting in a quiet corner eating cold lutefisk and chanting ancient Japanese prayers in an obscure Norse dialect. Your friends will shun you and your family will search for a therapist, but it will all be in vain.

Lajning wrote: Cheers for a loving welcome guys!

Please do use fancy words as much as you can, that way I learn I can always google stuff I don't understand.

That's the spirit! I was posting a week or so ago with 2 of your countrymen, scubaanders and SWEKZ, and apparently tripped them up a bit with some slightly obscure vocabulary.

Welcome to the forum, you have some great metal music coming out of Sweden .,that post Gothenberg thing which is hugely influential. i like the porn too. :laugh:

TexasKZ wrote:

Haha, I feel perfectly fine. I don't have an addiction, bike parts are natural objects in every mans bed.

GPzMOD750 wrote:

That's sad really. If english is not your native language, you always need to explore new words to evolve.

Tyrell Corp wrote:

Agree on the music part, we have some awesome metal acts. Swedish porn though, is very cheesy at least for me. Visually pleasing, yes, but that's about it. And porn without any sound sucks.