Rickman Kawasaki

And a racin'...

before i hang the racing leathers up i have to try that but i know what would happen i have a small obsesive compulsive disorder so i know i would go completly overboard with road racing the first time i tried it. so it will have to wait for a while till i'm done with drag racing only can have one wallet sucking vampire at a time , but god it sure do look like fun.

Yah it's definitely addictive-lots of great people too,but then all bike people are.I have a new question.The forks on the Rickman are Kawasaki,but I'm not sure what year or model.I believe the 1300cc-6 had air shocks.Are there any others?They are 38mm.Thanks Jerry

My 80 ltd has air forks. My 84 ltd 700 has air shocks in back. I'm sure there's more!
Best regards, Boots

I messed up -I did mean to say forks both times.

Timebomb,
For being a guy who's never road-raced you've already got it pretty well figured out.
When you said "I'm obsessive compulsive..." I thought you were going to end it with "...so I would just keep the throttle pinned until I got past the first guy and then worry about breaking, and end up in the grass" or something equally humorous...drag-racer... :lol:

that's almost what i did when i entered a pro open hill climb 2 years ago except i kept falling off[hard] so it's back to the drawing board for that type of racing i am going to do it again but i'm going to build my own from scratch i think this time. i have a 81 1000 j that i was thinking about building into a road racer but just yesterday i was given a complete factory exhaust system that is like new so i think it might be time to do a semi resto on that bike but i did pick up a frame and body work from a 1978 kZ1000 it has been some what modified the swingarm is from a gs1100 so it is a good start and the frame has all the extra mounts cut off so it won't see the street again so i figure why the hell not. let's go do some road racing . my ultimate goal is to trophy in every major form of motorcycle racing there is at least once.

Hey man, those are some pretty cool goals; much respect for that!
I think either way you go you'll be in good shape, but I'd lean towards the 'J' as the motor has more potential, but then again, if you go with a J/GPz head on your 'Z' you'd gain the bennies and have you cake and eat it too.

-KR

already have that set-up on one of my drag bikes i have an extra j and gpz head laying around gathering some dust so i'll probably do up one for my j motor and i already have a 1075 kit for it so it will be a bit of a sleeper bike. the kz motor i have alot of extra stuff lying around for it all ready and it's all smaller stuff like a mtc 1075 13-1 kit and a couple of real nasty sets of cams plus a set or two of 33 smoothbores to use on it as well so i could build a 120 horse motor pretty easy mostly from parts i have laying around my house and shop all i have to do to this bike is a bunch of plummen type frame bracing and get a front end and some shocks and i'll be in business. i have a ton of dyna stuff so that won't be a problem either.

Cool man; you DO have all the makings of a good road racer. Get 'er done!!!

-KR

For sure that would be a fun ride.Keep us updated.

jerry what is the size limit in the class your running your bike in. or is it a horsepower limit only