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It looks like a plie of bits at the moment, I decided to start from scratch...seriously, the frame is suspended from the kitchen ceiling by iron wire,just painted it with yacht paint, hard and corrosion resistant[dolphin grey], countless oem bits from everywhere[furthest was pilot jets from New Zealand!].
Those sprockets are from www.jtsprockets.com and are the standard sizes.
Standard chain nope, 530 , a trick I learnt here;)
This combo should give performance as indicated[111.8mph] and replaced identical ones so don't know about any difference.

crap, don't know how to do multiple piccys...

Ha!!!!

multi pics, dont you just put a space between the codes ie

God knows, these things take up too much of my limited brain power as it is;)

are you refitting the braced swing arm or fitting a standard one, i wouldbe interested in buying your braced one with the bearings, or swapping for my standard one?

The original question was 'how many were made?'...my info says about 20,000 over a four year span (1979-1982)...they were exported to a number of European countries, southeast asian countries, South Africa and Australia...

The origional is now a garden ornament:woohoo:
Have a look on fleabay, thats where the deep braced one came from, I bought new bearings,bead blasted the arm and painted it. Bearings cost £7:)

any chance of a photo of the braced swingarm? the ones i can see on there don't look much like your one?

Ahhhh... my son in law loaned me a digital camera, but not the cable to upload/download [whatever] to the pc so until I get that off him, afraid not:blink:
But I'll put it up asap:)
I'd use my Olympus OM1 but its not net compatable, no leccy bits you see:silly:

ahh right never mind then,
i presume yours is still a twin shock or have you mono shocked it?

Replaced shocks, new ones modelled on oem Z900 ones:)
Very pretty.
Piccys when this bloody camera joins the space age:silly:
Also replaced all fixings with A4 ss, dome nuts top and bottom on shocks, idea is [if we don't run out of oil first] to make her go another 25 years. Whether it's me sitting on it's another matter, these things were made to last. I remember in the 70's all the British bike nuts took the piss with "its made of crap materials".

How wrong they were.

Here is my Z500 restoration completed, engine rebuild, new shells all round, new primary and cam chain, valve seals. Original parts were in good Nick but decided to replace whilst cases were split for repainting. I believe official figures were 16000 built.