Self Sustaining Cafe Project

Money for this build is to be made by selling the parts I will not be using off the bike. I have put up many parts on ebay and have gotten good response from them.

So That is the 'theme' to this build. Obtaining this bike from a motorcycle shop I worked at, I am secure with going with 'self sustaining' the build knowing it runs fine.

It is a 1980 KZ-1000.

I am starting the project forum since making sales of some parts allowing the build processes to begin.




This is the wiring diagram I succesfully made. Its much easier than I thought, inly issue I had at first was ignition but it was so easy I thought it was fun.



Not too much wear on the disks, Dirty though.



The underside is a mess, nothing I cant handle



This to me is mayhem, This is the sight when you make something more than what it really is. This messyness is the reason I was drawn to a bare bones bike.



Im sure this looks just as fun to you as it does me.



Broken but it looks pretty cool. These will be coming off the most ill use is the speedometer.



This is the whole bike. Not bad for 600.00 with rebuilt carbs, newly re-lined gas tank (that ill be selling) and new fluids (which I'll be changing).

It looks good for the price! mine is 1981 kz1000 cop bike . I want the ltd look.

Thank you

I am a fan of this look but Im a 140 pound 5' 5" guy so it's just too much bike for me haha. I need small and nimble characteristics as well as simple.

This is where I am at now though vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

I might be a sponser

This is true haha, I see you made a bid. Thank you much by the way.

A few things I bought, I am buying in order of importance so all the not too fun parts I have to buy first.



I bought this except I bought a black one. I want it to look like it came on the bike stock.




Same with the grips, most mods I do to hardware I am aiming to look like it could be stock. Also I will be cutting the disks off of the grips to give it a cleaner look.




I got some white heat wrap, even though I should have saved for other things...I found some for a great deal, and Ive always wanted wrapped headers on a vehicle so I went with it.

The next purchase is tires, ugh so expensive.

Also Im headed to use a sandblaster this weekend to sand blast all the exhaust parts and try to repair the holes and possibly get some parts powder coated...that is a BIG maybe on powder coat though.

What exhaust do you have on there? And how bad (thin,holes,rust) is it? I have a black Mac header if you are interested at all let me know.
Wayne

Its stock, and used to be chrome but now is rusty ha. It looks like it had been attempted at repair before. I am REALLY interested in them, just let me know what you want for them and I will see if I can afford them.

I got the Throttle, Grips and heat tape. This has nothing to do with those parts but I have made some progress. I did some chopping of the frames tail section and rear foot peg mounts. I cut mu handlebars 1.5 inches on each side to give myself more of a comfortable handle on the bike. I took apart the rear shocks to clean them up and made a bracket for the speedometer.

Another video, Im making the transition from only pictures to video on the project.