Coming out of Hibernation

Well I dug the KZ's out of their winter naps over the weekend. Looks like all will be ready except I will need batteries for the KZ50E and the 650 CSR. They all fired up and after a little spitting and sputtering they settled down and seem fine.

Its gonna be a good summer!!!

I can't hardly wait. I figure I will even ride the 250ltd to work at least one a week.

Anyone else recently dig theirs out?

Not yet. I've been a bit busy working to clear cedar trees out of my brother's pasture when the weather was nice the past couple of weeks, so I didn't have any riding time anyway. I'll have to get the SR on the road in the next couple of weeks as the weather warms and farm priorities shift a bit.

Good to see you back on the board, Howard.

Well, gents, spring was set back a couple of more days starting this morning. I got up to see a world o' white that wasn't there when I went to bed last night.....about 1" worth of the stuff. If there was any justice in the world, that should have been RAIN instead, which we can really use.
Cowtown has had a fire ban on in the city limits for about a week cuz it's been so dry. This last snowfall should fix that for awhile.
Oh well, I usually don't get my bikes un-winterized until about the end of April anyway. Sigh......

Broke mine out a couple of weeks ago. I even got the good fortune/pleasure to ride it to work last Tuesday. Haven't rode it since, but I am really liking the idea of a multistate ride this summer. I think I might have even convinced my buddy to pull a phoenix on his dormint 77 BMW R100S that has been sitting silent for about three years now. Will have to keep y'all up dated, may be a good excuse to the the mile high KZR's together for a little southern Colorado adventuring.
-Brandon

I've been riding mine all winter as possible anyway. I'll unhibernate a couple of the others next summer. Usually 2-10 yrs mine sit between rides. At least the Kawasakis seem to come out of hibernation all OK, unlike my Honda Goldwing. I just went to run it last week to find brake fluid leaked all over the front discs, plus have a flat front tire losing 10psi per day. Tire has like 70 miles on it and didn't leak a bit last summer. No apparent puncture wounds? Every year on the Honda I know it's going to need work. Not on the Kawasakis. Guess that's why I'm ronkz, not ronhonda

My 650 was supposed to make it out of the shed today, but once again...snow:(

Pulled off the cover on Saturday, put back on the carbs, put the gas from the tank into the van, put fresh gas in the tank and hit the starter button and she fired right up !!! Always amazes me. Rode around the block a few times and everything seems fine. Temeprature was just a few degrees above freezing and we still have snow on the ground. Roads are a bit crappy with sand and other leftover crud but hoping that in another week or 10 days we will be good to go and not look back until next November.

I got the front end on my ELR Clone, but need to put the rear swingarm/wheel on and see what I'm going to do about the front sprocket (outboard bearing support plate, or just a spaced sprocket), then the 530, a new battery and off we go.
Can't do anything 'til school is out, though...it's gonna be a long month thru April ... uuuugggghhhhh! I'll have to do my riding osmotically thru you guys 'til then!
-KR

Got my KZ runnin' right today (thanks Shoe48) ... it's supposed to rain tommorrow ... gotta call the insurance company anyway .... and then there's Wednesday .... can't wait !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I saw on the evening news last night when I got home from work, that the denver metro streetsweeping brigade has been called to duty starting this week to start getting rid of all of the sand. That had to be some of the best news that I have seen yet.

Whenever you think you are ready Brandon and Ron, even though Ron doesn't really like group rides. I think we can get a ride going before summer, so we can get more people in line with some kind of schedule. I have been riding the 1000 for weeks now and started it over the winter to keep it aliveProbably put 1000 or more miles on it since the last oil change and have been doing rat runs for the snake since then, and I think its better used during these gas situations.

WooHoo ... took my first ride last evening !!! The old girl seems to be runnin' and ridin' great !!! I have a few more minor issues and then I'm ready to ride .... c'mon warm weather :woohoo: