OMR: '76 KZ900 Restoration/Modification

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Wholly crapola... How many times are you going to post that back.... :laugh: :laugh:

nice finger work!

had to change $@$^# &%@#$ picture from bmp to jpg! :S

Just for Plum..... :ohmy: :huh: :dry: :blink: :woohoo:

:kiss:

F me. AZ ahead of Cali on emission testing? Thats a first.

Knock on wood that they don't start this tact here soon.

You reminded me of a customer I had back in the day mowing lawns. He was a big rig mechanic and his hands looked like hamburger. Pulled me aside after my rounds in his yard and gave me a hint.

Go to school, don't let your hands get like mine.

Of course I didn't listen and now my hands look like yours. :whistle:

Beating on all types of machinery for fun all my life. Glad I didn't wrench for a living or I'd be in the same boat...

BTW he passed within the year of this conversation. RIP.

look at that i go away for the weekend and lo and behold what do i see when i get back dave polishing his crome aren't you supposed to be riding that thing now that your all legal! by the way your hands look a lot like mine except of course mine are much more manly!!!!!! is that dirt under those fingernails it can't be must be a shadow or possibly a rain cloud has past overhead. :side: :blink: :silly: :laugh: :woohoo: :woohoo: :blink: :blink:

Love ya man....

We pulled a 150 miler this last weekend hitting all types of roads... My buddy has a Honda Interceptor VFR800...

Tight & Curvy roads to test the suspension and front conversion, long straight away to twist the throttle & stop and go traffic as well....

The first part of the trek was mostly to get comfortable with the bike itself, seeing & learning how she handled & responded...

Towards the end, had the opportunity to truly twist the throttle while in third gear... My bud kept putting the throttle to me trying too egg me on, so I figured it was time to see what the old girl truly had in her.... :evil:

If I didn't know better (happened rather quickly) I'd say the front tire came off the ground a couple of inches for she pulled so friggin hard I hyper spaced 2-3 bike lengths past him and still had throttle left... :woohoo: :laugh:

Surprised my helmet didn't split from the grin on my face... :ohmy: :laugh:

All my bud could say later on was "BLODDY HELL"... he's English....

All in all.... the plugs look a light tan (still keeping my eye on them) and she's running extremely strong, just as I had in mind. Nothing over killed but more realistic where a strong running motor was ideal with some additional zip to the old girl

Presently going through and re-torquing every bolt on this motor and frame/suspension.... Every other ride or when I start to hear chatter, re-adjusting the cam chain tensioner. Checking the 630 chain slack & tire pressure. I still have suspension changes to learn and adjust yet (front & back)...

Again, Plummen, Timebomb, Kawsakman(Steve) & Larry C and any of you others I just can't remember for the moment... THANKS! for I couldn't have done it without your guidance and more importantly, friendship....

Dave "Old Man Rock" D'Amato

if i ever gave you any help that you could use it was my pleasure glad and proud to call you a freind dave nice going but you really must do something with that hair of your's,a blond perm really? or is that an afro!

now hop on that beast take a left/east till ya hit nebraska.call me when ya get close so i can nuke some pizza rolls! :laugh:

I'm really impressed and would like to see some more youtube! :blink:

Ask and you shall receive....







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