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I work at a bike salvage yard and one of my customers is a 20-something who's mad to restore his 650B2 (bought last Fall) which, admittedly, is in pretty good overall shape right now but does need paint. I tried to talk him into doing a mild cafe but he's not buying into that. He says he's got a line on 650B1 that will be perfect for a cafe project cuz he can put all the really good stuff on the B2. Fair enough.
This is where it all gets....strange ?? Cosmically serendipitous ??
A collector bike guy I know (late 40's) that I haven't seen in over a year shows up at my work today with.....wait for it....a 650D1 in fairly nice stock shape. He just bought it about a month ago. The somewhat faded paint is the only flaw I can see.
Now what are the odds that 3 guys who hang out at the same place would go out and end up with all three models of the 650 that were produced for the 1978 model year ?? And have bought the bikes within 6 months of each other ?? In a city with a metro area of about 1.3MM people ?? The odds are staggering!!!
The whole thing is just TOOOOO strange, IMO.
I'm going to try to get all three of our bikes together for some pics ASAP and I'll post the link to my Photobucket page as soon as it's available.

See that?
SEE THAT!!!
I'm tellin' ya EVERYBODY has a 650 EXCEPT FOR ME!

Yeah, BadKaw, I noticed that thread where you were going on about that. Of course, you DO have a fairly nice collection to console yourself with for lack of a 650...

Don't sweat it too much. 650's are like buses and women.....If you miss this one, another one will be along in 20 minutes or so.
Or it may turn out like my H2 collection.
I looked for 10 years to find my first one (circa 1990)
and since then they've just kept multiplying. Last count is 5.....

Bad Kaw wrote:

See that?
SEE THAT!!!
I'm tellin' ya EVERYBODY has a 650 EXCEPT FOR ME!

Okay Bad Kaw I can't take your crying anymore so I went on Ebay and found you a 650. You can even do a buy it now for a mere $3000.00 and then you will have your 650 and stop hating alll the rest of us. Don't let it get away now bikes like this one are hard to find.

650 on E-Bay

Post edited by: KZCSI, at: 2007/07/22 01:59

Holy hell that thigh must be deafening with pipes that short

Man !!! The indignities some people will subject poor innocent motorcycles to....
Gringo, I'm not sure I can thank you for exposing my optic nerves to such a....er....um....creation.

H2RICK wrote:

...Don't sweat it too much. 650's are like buses and women.....If you miss this one, another one will be along in 20 minutes or so.
Or it may turn out like my H2 collection.
I looked for 10 years to find my first one (circa 1990)
and since then they've just kept multiplying. Last count is 5.....

Well let's hope that it turns out to be like the "women" scenario and not like those (very cool) 'smokers'!

The Gringo wrote:

Bad Kaw wrote:

See that?
SEE THAT!!!
I'm tellin' ya EVERYBODY has a 650 EXCEPT FOR ME!

Okay Bad Kaw I can't take your crying anymore so I went on Ebay and found you a 650. You can even do a buy it now for a mere $3000.00 and then you will have your 650 and stop hating alll the rest of us. Don't let it get away now bikes like this one are hard to find.

650 on E-Bay <br><br>Post edited by: KZCSI, at: 2007/07/22 01:59

I think I'll start hawkin' parts to see if I can generate that $3K before one of you sneak that cherry out from under me!

What I don't understand is that if a guy is going to do that to a bike, WTF makes him think anyone else in the world will want it?

Gee... there's even a place to store a classy red plastic spare gas container. And only $3K, hold me back.

What are you hating on it for? All it would take is a cheezy little windscreen and you would have one of those Mac daddy cfe racers yall are so hot on. Of course I am more partial to the naked streetfighter look it has now.

Bad Kaw wrote:

See that?
SEE THAT!!!
I'm tellin' ya EVERYBODY has a 650 EXCEPT FOR ME!

Okay...I'll trade you. Send me pictures of these and I'll pick whick one I want

"
'78 Z1R
'82 GPz1100
'81 KZ1000J
"

bill_wilcox100 wrote:

Gee... there's even a place to store a classy red plastic spare gas container. And only $3K, hold me back.

That must be the reserve tank. I thought y'all would enjoy that one all it needs is a Sombrero and it would be really cool.