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THIS TIME ITS A DRAGBIKE 08 Feb 2012 22:33 #502877

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ok its winter in ohio and that means project time and this year is no diff. but i have to say i got thrown a curve.3 years ago my son brought home a kz1000 that was well pretty rough and in a few boxes but he had a dream and to be truthfull so did i.it brought me back to my younger days.by spring we came up with the green one. after watching him go down the road the whole summer i had to have one so winter came we built the orange one for me. here it is 3 years later and it was project time and i was geared up to delieve it or not build a bad ass yamaha sx650 bobber i just like the looks.over the summer we took the bikes to the strip a few times and had a blast but running the crap out of the bikes just made me sick. :sick: so heres the curve he said forget about that bobber stuff your not a yamaha man anyway lets build a dragbike :dry: i will say this was not even a thought but if he was intrested in a d/dike i figured he would help build it more than what i wanted to build spending time with him was more important to me than a bobber so d/bike this winter is what it is .
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THIS TIME ITS A DRAGBIKE 08 Feb 2012 23:45 #502897

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Awesome :)

Those are both nice bikes you've built. The green one reminds me of a Kawasaki Mean Streak.
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THIS TIME ITS A DRAGBIKE 08 Feb 2012 23:46 #502898

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ok, alittle history on what came to be the bike. went on craigs list to find a bike found one about 65 miles from me and went to check it out.it was supposed to have a 1075 it had the air shift - dg s/arm - falicon crank - ect. it had a diff. frt end on it & title $1500.00 it ran what the heck i bought it. got home the carbs was screwed put mine on it rode it few times. i had a bad feeling about it to get to the point i didnt like it at all.about a week later i found another one about the same distance from me. it had been listed for about 3 months as a kz1260 - air clutch - rev limiter for sale or trade :whistle: so callad, he said he got it from someone ect. its a dragbike no title he cant sell it sooo!! you want to trade for one with title i say its easyer to sell and he said mybe bring it up. got up there it was a full blown dragbike :woohoo: old skool looking but everything you could put on one was on it and i mean every thing. it ran i gave him a $100.00 and mine and down the rode i went. the one on the left in the pic is the first one
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THIS TIME ITS A DRAGBIKE 09 Feb 2012 00:45 #502910

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Hi Jeff, real nice stuff! Who does them seats?? I want one!
Beautiful countryside! It looks like the 601 backroads to NORWALK the nicest dragstrip in the world!
Thanks Bader Family. I been going to Norwalk since 1989. IDBA, AHDRA, Night of Fire and NHRA
So what you got started? Whats for sale? or trade?

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More room for The Old Girl, Harley 75 FLH Electra Glide,
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. 09 Feb 2012 04:11 #502930

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THIS TIME ITS A DRAGBIKE 09 Feb 2012 07:51 #502950

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Beautiful looking bikes Jeff!
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THIS TIME ITS A DRAGBIKE 09 Feb 2012 09:46 #502966

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thanks larry , my brother has one of those i think it is a 1600 nothing like overkill nice bikes -- marty it looks like your pic is from my fav. place to hange out vary top notch place. about the only things i have to part with is a set of old skool wheels with 7" slick & zx10 race body that i have had a few years.have had my nhra tick. for a few months now cant wait been going about 13 years now :woohoo: seat are done by the amounddingers
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THIS TIME ITS A DRAGBIKE 09 Feb 2012 10:53 #502973

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Very nice looking bikes, Jeff.

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THIS TIME ITS A DRAGBIKE 09 Feb 2012 13:58 #503001

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they are all some cool lookin bikes.

leon
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THIS TIME ITS A DRAGBIKE 10 Feb 2012 02:30 #503119

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Wow, I love the paint on the one on the left in the last picture. I wonder what kind of paint that is? And that is the one you traded off for the other? Nice looking bikes!
1980 KZ1000 with a 1982 KZ1000J motor with 1100 pistons and heads, Vance & Hines, 29MM Smooth Bores, Work in Progress
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THIS TIME ITS A DRAGBIKE 10 Feb 2012 03:44 #503122

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That paint is Dupont "chroma-Illusion" came out about 10-12 years ago. Jeff Gordon had his nascar painted with it in the "Winston" classic. In the May Allstar race at Charlotte 10-12 years ago.
It flips to about 5-6 colors. It was hot when it first came out, but people got sick of it after awhile.
Oh Ya! back then it cost $580 dollars a quart! :woohoo:
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More room for The Old Girl, Harley 75 FLH Electra Glide,
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thats the one i traded it was a peice of junk even if it looked good to others ( not me :sick: )z1konly hit it on the nose with the paint. i sprayed alot of that in the day. i will get back to this build tonite after work i am trying to find the pics not haveing very good luck though.
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well i have looked high & low i cant find the pics of the bike when i brought it home but i will do my best to put a pic in your minds. it was black had the 1 peice seat tail, stock tank and side covers and one huge dent in the tank where a tree limb fell on it. had spoke wheels with 7" slick and a set of wheelie wheels.very rough looking.the pics shows the look but it was in mockup stage.got it home and fired it up and did a few hole shots seem to run good, no smoke, gears worked ect. ok time to redo it to my likes.mind you the guy i got it off of had the list of stuff that was done to it and i figured it to be true :woohoo: it had a oil leak up around the #1 valve cover so i pulled the cover off, i first seen stock cams, 2 valve cover bolt holes broke & a healy coil, getting pissed :angry: ok if this is the start of it all i had better go deeper. 1260 not 1075 with one of the cylinders big gouge and piston junk,after getting over the anger and disappointment split the case you guessed it no back cut but the crank had been welded and a pretty good job.so i started with the crank of a dragbike
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THIS TIME ITS A DRAGBIKE 11 Feb 2012 15:42 #503348

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well after seeing the motor problems i figured id sit it off to the side for another day, figured i would get the bike ready to paint, my favarite part of any build dont get off on the sanding part but comes with the rewards. when i work on these it is in the evenings & weekends so i do everything the hard way, no sandblaster well sand paper works fine, just work harder. :pinch: tore the shocks apart for paint because polish was out of the question ( bad shape ) also wanted to put spacer in to lower & seals so they wouldnt leak. loaded it all up and to work i go spray gun in hand,we us ppg paint there so that is what went on it black base clear & charcole on the shocks.after baking it ready to go home with me. started making a roller out of it almost every nut & bolt is new i dont like old rusty stuff on a new bike :sick: rebuilt the forks bolted them on it was starting to look like a bike but when it came to the wheels i just couldnt put them back on it. alot of people like spokes and that is fine iam not one of them i have had 4 kzs in my life and none of them had spokes they had ltd wheels.i looked into soom race wheels but they cost alot and not on the buget.the bike came with 630 chain 15t 5/8 offset frt. and 42t rear.now the orange bike i have has 530 chain and i wasnt happy with the gearing on it and i wanted to put a 200 series tire on it so i figure i would kill 2 birds with 1 stone so the d/bike got the other ones drive train ;) reason for gsxr wheels! put the foot conts. on and the batt. box and called it a day.
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THIS TIME ITS A DRAGBIKE 11 Feb 2012 17:05 #503357

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Love the dragbike stuff! Would love to get me one of those 1pc tail/seat pcs. or just a longer tail.

Les

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THIS TIME ITS A DRAGBIKE 11 Feb 2012 20:27 #503378

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Here's the site...

www.beasleycomposites.com/
1980 LTD (changed over the years), 1979 LTD (being rebuilt), 1977 KZ turbo and various KZ's in various states of build. KLX110

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Oh man Jeff, that orange bike is everything ive ever wanted my bike to look like. I got a little drool on my keyboard
KZ810 streetfighter kz/gpz/gsxr
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thanks you all for the comments: next up was to mount the handle bars and had to make a mount for the computer. now it was the rear inner fender the guy before me used the stock plastice i wasnt real keen on that but here agian its sunday nothing open how can i make a fender? somtimes you have to be creative and that is where the brownie pan comes in (got to get another before the wife finds out :evil: )

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got the fender mounted and moved on to the wiring which is done pretty well but alot of it not going to zip tie it yet might have to move it while installing the motor.

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i made the fender so it would be nicer mougting the rev. limiter & auto shift plus it has teflon coating so the rubber schould wipe rite off :laugh:

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well got to go the first nhra race of the year is on tv :woohoo:
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THIS TIME ITS A DRAGBIKE 12 Feb 2012 22:28 #503600

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Looks good Jeff. Is that powder or paint on the frame?

No bikes on till the Gators! Yes NHRA1

Close your eyes and sniff, NITRO! only 1 thing in the world! smells like nitro, thats NITRO!
You never forget it!
It is the 8th wonder of the world. IMO.
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finishing up the wiring, mounted the coils moved up to the controls. put the air clutch & switch - air shift going to replace the grips.

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put the delay box on the holder but temp. i have to figure out how to make it easyly removed in order to run at diff. tracks some let you use them some dont depends on what classes they offer.

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on to the 1/4 turn throttle & kill switch
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