KZ 650 Turbo'd drag bike, old school

Here is a craigslist bike.
For anyone into 650 and turbo's and drags.
He sez its street legal.
Nice veiwing!

buffalo.craigslist.org/mcy/1364286703.html

looks like a cool bike,but thats a lot of money.anything that sits for 20 years is gonna need lots of help to bring back to 100%,thats a long time for the springs to hold them valves open without going flat not to mention stuck rings ............ :laugh:

i've seen that one in person.
didn't get to ride it because he knew i would not come back.
it sounds wild though.
to bad it's out of my price range.

He says he's got the record certificates. I'd like to see them. I was heavily into drag racing during that time frame and I can't recall that motorcycle. Very few if any guys ever made a KZ650 run with a turbo. Guys I knew that drag raced KZ1000 turbos clear down in the 8 sec range could not make a KZ650 work. Too small, not enough airflow to get the turbo spinning, they would run good on the top end, but sit there the first 60ft for 4 seconds.

launch it on the bottle and hold it on the two step and that will solve the spooling up issue.

:laugh:

come on Plummen quit pretending like that mess will ever be a motorcycle again.

































thinking that if I bust your balls it may make you build faster :silly: :lol:

a man has to have prioritys work or bike work or bike tough call eat or overload the old pacemaker tough choices all the way around

hardr0ck68 wrote:

come on Plummen quit pretending like that mess will ever be a motorcycle again.


































thinking that if I bust your balls it may make you build faster :silly: :lol:

careful rocco, old plummen might be heading to our neck of the woods next summer. :laugh:


with winter comming up, i DO expect to see more progress being made though.

I remember this bike and have the Hot Bike magazine issue it was featured in, but it's packed a way in storage at the momemnt while our house eats the $10K that should have been my new engine.... Seems to me the pics of his IDBA or Dragbike! record certificates were in there too. Upstate NY boys iirc, used to show up at Cayuga the odd Sunday back in the day - there were a bunch of NY guys with real fast turbo bikes.