Almost Done!!!

I bought this 77 kz1000 about 4 years ago after seeing it leaned up against a house. I stopped and asked if the owner would sell it. He said he would as it had been sitting like that for about three years. It only had 9026 miles on it but looked very rough. He had bought a Harley and just parked it never to be ridden again. It did kick over (obviously didn't start)and by having a friend kick while I held my hands over the exhaust, I felt that it had decent compression. We settled on $400, loaded it on the truck and brought it home. I put it in the shed and it sat for 3 1/2 more years. I had a ZRX100 that was my daily rider at the time as well as a 67 Super Hawk project going at the time.

The KZ was ugly as can be when I got it and my friend thought I was stupid for "wasting" $400. It had engine guards, high way pegs, king & queen seat with a high sissy bar,High rise handle bars and lot's of chrome and fringe too. I forgot to mention that it was bright purple! I could go on but I think you get the picture. Add the rust and it really was butt ugly.

Any way...I drug it out of the shed and into the shop about 3 months ago as I no longer had the ZRX and the Super Hawk is cool but it's a small bike. Fun to ride but small. I have owned a 57 Pan Head, a 78 Shovel Head as well as a 79 KZ1000 LTD and a 76 KZ900 in addition to the ZRX and needed/ wanted something with some size to it. I just picked up a 76 BMW R75/6 as my next project but will wait a year before starting it. Picked it up for $500 and is in really nice shape.

I have about a $1000 into it so far (including the $400 purchase price)and should be able to get it finished for, hopefully, only another hundred or so more. I made pipes, seat, replaced swing arm, gauges, shocks, cables, brakes and lines, wheels, and a ton of other stuff too.

I just wanted to attach a few pics of it hoping to get some feed back. I hope you all like it.

Thanks

Well...the pics are too large I guess and got an error from the server. I'll try to figure it out and post them later. Any advice for posting pics?

Lets see if these two show up! If they do, I'll add a couple at a time.

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easiest way,ok the only way i know how to resize is to open with paint and resize that way! :woohoo:
usually you can only post one at a time

kzrider.com/forum/advsearch?q=resize+patton

If you have a Canon digital camera it should have come with Zoom Browser. Using that, you go to Export Still Images and after you select an image you Specify Export Settings. This is where you can resize the image and save it. I would expect other digital cameras have similar software. Ed

Thanks guys! I need to work on it a little more. I was doing it as the previous posts instruct me to, but I'm obviously still missing something. I'll try again tomorrow. In the mean time I changed my avatar to one of the pics just to give an idea.

Bike looks great if thats it in your avatar.

i hope you get the pic thing figured out.



leon