OK you KZ650 freaks... What is this bike???

Well, here is a piof the daily rider, a KZ650! HOWEVER, it is not as it appears, so you will REALLY need to look closely to figure out what 3 bikes this is made from!

Another pic...

If you really know your 650's, you can spot everything that gives what is what away.

BTW, Melvis is not allowed to play, he used to own the bike(before this was done to it though).

arg.....1976 for the from master cylinder, the right side cover has the cut out for a rear disc brake master cylinder, but you have a rear drum from a C? model, and the rear tail light is CSR? and the seat LTD?

flht1997 wrote:

arg.....1976 for the from master cylinder, the right side cover has the cut out for a rear disc brake master cylinder, but you have a rear drum from a C? model, and the rear tail light is CSR? and the seat LTD?

Ohhhh, close on some of the things. The C model's had mags with disk brakes, so the rear is not from a C model.

You are right about the mastery cylinder, it is from a 77(76 made 77) 650.

Light is original to bike(majority of the bike is original actually) and the seat is a custom cut foam job and recover so not really an LTD seat.

sidecover emblems are from a 77 650.
no rear " ducktail" not 77
forks look either gpz or from a 79.
am i close?

kawsakiman wrote:

sidecover emblems are from a 77 650.
no rear " ducktail" not 77
forks look either gpz or from a 79.
am i close?

Sidecovers are correct.

There is a rear ducktail, just isnt on.

Wrong on the forks.

Forks are original to the base bike, which is a 650, but what model and what year, and what in the pics gives it away to know what year and model???

Hmmm, Looks to be a 16 inch rear. maybe it's part SR? or ltd- by the wheels.

mjj

I'd say a 77 b1 with added caliper and front wheel from a c or d, and a rear drum wheel off a 550. seat looks to be from an ltd.

getting warmer!!!

jjdwoodman wrote:

I'd say a 77 b1 with added caliper and front wheel from a c or d, and a rear drum wheel off a 550. seat looks to be from an ltd.

Right on the money, other than the seat being a recovered B model seat.

it IS a 77, and you can tell by the calipers being on the front side of the forks and the round front master cylinder.

It IS a B model, and you can tell that because the B model had a drum back wheel, not disk.

It is a D model front wheel and calipers.

It is a 550 Rear 16 inch drum brake mag wheel.



You Sir, know your KZ's.

was there a 650 that had a rear drum alloy rim? could have sworn i have seen them. or for that matter a 650 with a rear spoke disk brake?

Post edited by: flht1997, at: 2007/10/08 12:54