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PsychoBikerBen
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Bought her when I was 20 sold her when I was 30.
While I had her for the 10 years I had many other machines as working bikes- from trailies ,rat bikes and old tubular framed road bikes.(not retros,they were the origionals!)
Did most of the work miself and even though the barrells were farmed out for boaring,Me and my mate John completely stripped the shagged engine down and refurbished it(god I hate lapping new valvues in and as for under bucket shimms and gearbox reconditioning !!!!!)
I've owned a GPZx 750 & another ZX1100 (also with bigbore) and am quite adept at working and rebuilding any of the old Z,GPZ engins-There all basically the same.
Nedless to say,when I ride a mates brand new Blackbird,I had to get one and I just had to move on!!!
But I still look back with rose tinted glasses with gread memories of Building,Riding & all the bike shows I used to take her to.
I'll never forget you:k
Mind you- compared to these modern machines , the handeling was to say the least.
But if ya can ride & survive on an early eighty's machine that handles like a barge with a hinge in the middle-then ya can pilot anything !!!
While I had her for the 10 years I had many other machines as working bikes- from trailies ,rat bikes and old tubular framed road bikes.(not retros,they were the origionals!)
Did most of the work miself and even though the barrells were farmed out for boaring,Me and my mate John completely stripped the shagged engine down and refurbished it(god I hate lapping new valvues in and as for under bucket shimms and gearbox reconditioning !!!!!)
I've owned a GPZx 750 & another ZX1100 (also with bigbore) and am quite adept at working and rebuilding any of the old Z,GPZ engins-There all basically the same.
Nedless to say,when I ride a mates brand new Blackbird,I had to get one and I just had to move on!!!
But I still look back with rose tinted glasses with gread memories of Building,Riding & all the bike shows I used to take her to.
I'll never forget you:k
Mind you- compared to these modern machines , the handeling was to say the least.
But if ya can ride & survive on an early eighty's machine that handles like a barge with a hinge in the middle-then ya can pilot anything !!!