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cheap ass kz!
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Still recovering,some days are better than others.
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you mean take a nice kz ,cheap score, and weld a bunch of crap and add weird stuff and mods that suck...not really gonna float either....
to trick a kz or even to "build one"...
it costs money...even parts changers like me can get into 6000.00 from a 500 dollar bike...to have drop dead KZ that turns all heads
the things that work on these old super bikes are pretty much all done before and one needs only follow trusted convention down a few well worn paths to achieve a decent kz...folks who screw em up and then claim they did it on a shoestring....well.....that really aint much to blow a horn about...
it cost a few grand even if someone gives you a garage full of kz stuff...rattle can and bobber club aside
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Starting is another matter. Needed new battery and it looks like I'll be rebuilding the starter soon.
Here's my bike:
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321,000 miles on KZ's that I can remember. Not going to see any more.
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I got 200.00 in mine think i can get her back on the road and be safe for around a thousand!
We might be tied then. The battery for mine was $86 a starter rebuild kit will be $40. I've got a handful of other misc parts like a tach cable and gaskets. I might come in around $900-$1000 when I'm on the road in the spring. But a lot of that doesn't have to be done.
For $786 I got a bike that would pass inspection and could be ridden safely. Looks pretty good too (see above). It will start it's just a bit of a bear. No tach, but I don't HAVE to fix that, just want to.
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'78 KZ1075 LTD
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I spent $2800 to buy this, and have spent just under $5900 in rebuilding it from the ground up and still don't have all the parts. Still, it's cheaper than a new ZX10, and sexier:blink:
Cool bike, but I think you must have missed the title of the thread. $12k+ isn't cheap by my definition anyway!
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