Can't wait for thanksgiving!

On my drive home to thanksgiving dinner at my parents house I am stopping to look at a $300 kz1000 that a seller is holding for me. It runs (poorly), has a title and did I mention $300. It may be my winter project, clean it up and flip it.

On the way back to Maine I will be picking up a kz750 4cylinder motor, sellers says it is a runner and a tight motor. It will just be more parts for my current 650 build. But for $27 sold, that's right I got it from ebay for $27, no shipping because I am picking it up. This will be my cheapest spare and bring my total parts pile up to the point where it is time to sell some off.

I do have alot to be thankful for this year!

don't worry rocco, we all have faith you'll mess both of them up! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

ps, call me when you get back, i have some 900 sleeves for you and i found the other 750 sleeves.

Those are some great deals. You can't have too many parts.

Mark

kawsakiman wrote:

don't worry rocco, we all have faith you'll mess both of them up! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

ps, call me when you get back, i have some 900 sleeves for you and i found the other 750 sleeves.

I am all set with 750 sleeves now, but the 900 sleeves I sure do want. I have been looking at another style of piston that comes in at 71.5mm and they are stock pistons.... so hopefully cheap.




The kz1000 will just be a flip... I have no use for another money pit!

trade you whatever you want for the 1000.
you know i have what you want/need. :laugh:
you know the number.

Ok, being serious not try to bust your balls here....

If your plans are on some serious $$$ spending on a build, why not put it into that KZ1000 instead?

Reasoning, after everything you'd do on that KZ650, that stock and good running KZ1000 would still beat it. Not to mention you have way more options in a monster top end build in that 1000 than you have for that 650...

Just a thought...

Old Man Rock wrote:

Ok, being serious not try to bust your balls here....

If your plans are on some serious $$$ spending on a build, why not put it into that KZ1000 instead?

Reasoning, after everything you'd do on that KZ650, that stock and good running KZ1000 would still beat it. Not to mention you have way more options in a monster top end build in that 1000 than you have for that 650...

Just a thought...

Or I could just buy a zx14;

OMR your line of reasoning only ends in one place; why spend the money at all on these old bikes? Something newer/bigger is going to eat your cookies...

As soon as I get a full time teaching gig, I am going to buy a big kid bike (zrx12000). So if I plan on owning one of those, which bone stock will eat a well tuned kz1000 then I guess there is no reason to play with the kz right?



All that kz1000 represents to me, is money to experiment with large bore pistons for my 650.

Well I passed on the kz1000 it just needed way to much work to be a good flip.

The paint was "custom" including a naked chick crudely hand painted on it, you could see the brush strokes. It had a vetter fairing on it with the same custom paint, saddle bags off some other bike jury rigged on.

There was a lot of wiring that looked schetchy, and EVERYTHING on this bike was covered in corrosion. Not just the little bit of rust in the tank, but stalagmites. The shocks leak, the breaks are broke....

I don't think that I would even make my money back on a part out; maybe I would; but not without a lot of effort.


If anyone is interested it is in Albany NY, I will pass along the e-mail if you like.