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Greetings all. I’m a new member to the forum. I own a 1978 KZ1000 A2 that was originally purchased for me by my father in 1991. After riding it through college and grad school, I moved away and the bike went into storage for the better part of the next 25 years. Around two years ago I had my father trailer it down to me and I’ve been working on a slow motion restoration with the help of Retro Wrench, a local vintage motorcycle shop here in town, along with many purchased parts from Johnny’s Vintage Motorcycles, Z1Parts.net, Z-Power and Diablo Cycles.  “Phase 3” of the restoration, which just wrapped up, included a dual disk conversion up front and a wheel reconstruction (front and back). The bike is an absolute joy to ride; more comfortable in its 46th year than when I first started riding it in the early 90s. As my dad likes to say, these bikes are the B-52s of motorcycles for a reason.

I enjoy reading about these motorcycles and I’ve already found the forum on KZ Rider helpful for some obscure parts searches and questions I have. I appreciate the resource and I’m glad there are people out there committed to maintaining it. Thank you. 

Welcome to KZRider 
Nice Bike 
Dave

Welcome...and sweet motorcycle!

Welcome !  very nice KZ1000

Welcome from the UK, great looking bike

Wow. Nice bike. Your Dad is pretty cool too. 

Welcome.  Seems we're local to you.  Retro Wrench is a great bunch of guys.

The local bike night scene has cooled a lot since covid.  Kingfish & especially Barret Bar for vintage & eclectic stuff aren't near what they used to be.

Nice bike!  Great to keep it in the family.  We like the 'B-52' reference.  A crusty ol' local drag racer who used to have a shop in Clarksville referred to the Z1 / KZ motors as the small block Chevy's of motorcycles. Could build them to the n'th degree & they just wouldn't break.

Good Ridin'
slmjim & Z1BEBE  .

 

Welcome to the club. Absolutely a beautiful kz. Can I have it?? Lol

Beautiful, EBC rotors look good on it. I have a request, if you have the document tray still in the rear duck tail would you post a picture of the Daily Safety Checks decal. TY

Great bike and an even better story! Welcome to the forum.

Welcome.
Very nice KZ!

Here is the tray. Not original to the bike; somewhere along the way I lost the original. I bought this one from Kawasaki Jim a couple summers ago at Mid-Ohio.