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01 May 2007 07:50 #135985 by rstnick
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Welcome Rick.
Nice collection you've got going there.
Love to see that low mileage 650C2 you bought. It will bring back some memories of how mine use to look.

I've driven by car from Edmonton to Vancouver through Calgary and back to Edmonton before. Was a trip I'll never forget. Beautiful area for sure.

Rob
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1978 KZ650 C2, 130K kms, Delkevic ex, EI, CVK32, PMC easy clutch, ATK fork brace, steering damper, Progressive Suspension, braced swingarm, ZRX shocks, 18" Z1R front wheel.
2000 ZRX1100
2011 Ninja 250R - Wife's
2005 z750s

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01 May 2007 11:22 #136091 by N0NB
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You guys talking about all that riding got nothing on us, we got the straightest roads anywhere!

Uh, wait...

Welcome, Rick and enjoy!

Nate

Nates vintage bike axiom: Riding is the reward for time spent wrenching.
Murphys corollary: Wrenching is the result of time spent riding.

1979 KZ650 (Complete!)
1979 KZ650 SR (Sold!)
1979 KL250 (For sale)
1994 Bayou 400 (four wheel peel :D )

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01 May 2007 21:00 #136318 by H2RICK
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Well, for all those who asked for them.....here are 3 pics of the 650C2 WITHOUT the seat and a few other items.
It came to the second owner (who I bought it from) with a butt ugly Windkutter fairing and bag set. He stripped them off but hadn't got around to setting things back to right. I'm in the process of getting the bits together to do just that.
"Where's the seat??" you say.....
The original owner had the stock pan stripped of foam and cover and had a SERIOUSLY ugly king/queen getup installed on it. It's an offense to the eye to view such a thing and since this is a family board I won't subject anyone to pics of that hideous monstrosity.
I just missed a stock C2 seat on Ebay but after having seen one in the flesh, I've decided it's almost as ugly, IMO, as the king/queen that was on there when I got the bike.
Sooooo.....I'm getting a B seat for it and that should arrive sometime next week. The B seat is the kind of seat that I prefer because I can move around and not worry about any humps/lumps and stuff like that.
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KZ650C2 Stock/mint. Goes by "Ace".
H2A Built from a genuine basket case. Yes,it's a hot rod.
GT550A Stock/mint. Pleasant stroker.
2006 Bandit 1200S for easy LD rapid transit
Various H2 projects in the wings.

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02 May 2007 20:29 #136616 by rstnick
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WOW! Sure looks nice.

The B and C models had the same flat seat. F models may have the same seat as well. The stepped seat you saw on ebay must have been recovered and sculpted, using the stock pan.

Here's a pic of mine many moons ago with the stock seat:



Rob
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Need a key for your Kawasaki? PM me

1978 KZ650 C2, 130K kms, Delkevic ex, EI, CVK32, PMC easy clutch, ATK fork brace, steering damper, Progressive Suspension, braced swingarm, ZRX shocks, 18" Z1R front wheel.
2000 ZRX1100
2011 Ninja 250R - Wife's
2005 z750s
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02 May 2007 22:14 #136654 by kwakagoose
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Let see them H2's. I Love h2's...
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03 May 2007 20:59 #136948 by H2RICK
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Thanks for the pic of your 650, Rob. That's the seat I'm getting but for some reason most of the pics I've seen of the supposedly "proper" C2 seat show a two-level seat with a "tuck & roll" type of pattern that extends from side to side completely. Well, your seat is the kind I'm getting and if some purists want to worry about it.....
toooooo bad. I'll post some more pics when it's all back together with the new boots one it.

KZ650C2 Stock/mint. Goes by "Ace".
H2A Built from a genuine basket case. Yes,it's a hot rod.
GT550A Stock/mint. Pleasant stroker.
2006 Bandit 1200S for easy LD rapid transit
Various H2 projects in the wings.

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03 May 2007 21:10 #136951 by H2RICK
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Kwakagoose:
OK, here you go....

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Amazingly enough, when I started on putting the old girl back together, I figured out that the stock front end sucked big time, sooooo......I decided to use the front end from....wait for it.....a KZ650. Talk about some kind of cosmic irony.....or planets aligning or something. :laugh: Who knew that 15 years later I'd end up owning a KZ650 ??!!??
The Lesters came from a guy in Florida but the rest of the bike came in crates from the original owner whose brother "took it apart to restore it but lost interest." Who hasn't heard that story before !!??!!
So I came along and kindly took it off his hands.
Ever since then the darn things keep turning up as basket cases and keep drifitng into my garage. I'm afraid my place is going to collapse one day from all the H2 pieces stored every which place in the house.
SWMBO is not amused....but what the heck do most women know/care about bikes....right ???!!!

KZ650C2 Stock/mint. Goes by "Ace".
H2A Built from a genuine basket case. Yes,it's a hot rod.
GT550A Stock/mint. Pleasant stroker.
2006 Bandit 1200S for easy LD rapid transit
Various H2 projects in the wings.

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03 May 2007 21:44 #136962 by kwakagoose
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Very nice, Love the looks and sound of stock pipes.
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05 May 2007 14:21 #137357 by kwakagoose
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Took a ride today on the H2. Always forget all up.

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