Goodbye LTD, Hello MKII !

Haybus wrote: Very nice. What mirrors are those?

Alan

It looks like they are Emgo brand, Dennis Kirk part # 39-1517 and 39-1518. I have had them for several years, I like the way they look and they have held up well.

Thanks for taking the time to look that up. Too bad they're flat glass.

Alan

So.............
Something has come up which might derail my project for a while. I mentioned in an earlier post that I used to own my friend's earlier bike, an '86 FJ1200. Well, the mutual friend that I sold it to was ready to let it go, and...........





I blew the KZ budget getting this back in my garage, but I couldn't let it go to someone else. It needs very little to get it back on the road - carbs cleaned, battery, and fork seals should mostly take care of it. I'm so stoked!

I have plenty of fabrication projects to do, so I can keep moving forward on the KZ, but the parts budget is gone for right now. Looks like I need to get some more Ebay auctions going........

I had an FJ 1200 a couple of years ago that was a twin to yours ... the FJ 1200's are great bikes

turboking wrote: I had an FJ 1200 a couple of years ago that was a twin to yours ... the FJ 1200's are great bikes

I had good reasons to sell it when I did. My life is in a different place now, and it was time to put it back in the garage. Things work out sometimes

turboking wrote: I had an FJ 1200 a couple of years ago that was a twin to yours ... the FJ 1200's are great bikes

I had an exact copy too and it was an 86. Great bikes and was strong like a fright train straight line. Take corners with it was different matter. Like a wrestling match to get her through the corners. I lived in southeast Mi at the time . Use to love to hit the country roads their and Canada and kick it up to 150+ mph. Rock sold at any speed to the limit. And it got there in a flash without breaking a sweat. Bike looked great doing it. I had scratched my lower pan on a curb. So I had ordered a lower aftermarket cowling which came up all to the way to the fairing. Color matched it and everything. Looked great.

With original cowel

No pics yet, but I spent time yesterday working on the rearset mount plates. First had to clean, lube, and adjust my "new" garage sale bandsaw. It works pretty well cutting aluminum, but I think it needs a new blade. I built a fixture to hold the footpeg pins in the drill press so that I could drill and tap them. Got the plates traced out on the aluminum plate , and I'm working on the right speed in the drill press to use the hole saw on them. A lot of this metalworking is stuff that I've seen here on the forum or on TV, but haven't ever tried. There's a lot of trial and error. I need to finish cutting, drilling and tapping the plates, shorten and re-thread the shifter linkage, and work out the rear brake linkage, so at least another full day of fab work. I'm pumped right now that it's all going so well, my vision for these parts seems to be going according to plan. Next time I'm in the garage, I'll get some pics to put up here.

don't let that yammy slow ya down!

the pictures of that thing setting there with mk11 tank and seat on it should be motivation enough.





leon

531blackbanshee wrote: don't let that yammy slow ya down!

the pictures of that thing setting there with mk11 tank and seat on it should be motivation enough.

leon

Oh, yeah, the bodywork on the bike is a huge motivator! What's slowing me down right now is the broken toe I gave myself at work last week

My goal is to have functional rearsets on the bike by the end of the weekend