My newly aquired 85 Gpz 750

picked up this beauty last week. I stole it for the bargain price of $875 .. Runs perfect. new carb rebuild. new tires. freshly painted tank. 15k original miles. bike is a solid beauty.

took some HQ sunset shots this weekend. thought i'd share. glad to be party of the Kawi family












after i got the bike i took everything apart for a good cleaning. discovered that i absolutely love the lines of this bike without that ginormous front fairing . so i've placed an order for some headlight brackets. bar end mirrors and new turn signals. Will also be removing the rear fender and making up a eliminator system. the traditionalists probably won't like that but i loved the way it looked. it drove and felt much lighter in the front also with all that metal bracketing removed. i don't plan on cutting or damaging the plastics in the process, from what i've seen original plastics in good shape have a pretty nice pricetag .

here is a crappy cell phone pic i took during the bath session. kinda gives you an idea of where i wanna go with it




Thanks for looking

have a few more pics here on my personal website as well

www.krisjohnsonshotyou.com/Planestrainsautos/2-Wheel-Love

Cool! Saw your bike over on DTT too!

Ya, if you manage to preserve the pieces in order to maintain the potential to "put it back", I don't see any problem! It's too nice to butcher!

Have fun!

Nice score!

gotta agree I think it looks better without the full fairing

Drooz wrote: Cool! Saw your bike over on DTT too!

Ya, if you manage to preserve the pieces in order to maintain the potential to "put it back", I don't see any problem! It's too nice to butcher!

Have fun!

thats the plan.. keep the plastics off the bike and in good shape.. ya i really like the DTT forum.. signed up there a while back.. lurked and read some info when i was thinking about buying a bike for a cafe project.