20-05-14, 07:43 PM
Great link nick, thanks mate 
I honestly don't know if it's a good buy or not..the motor is sound, took it to an old skool bike mech today ( he runs a thou amongst others) he loved it, checked compression and it's got high comp pistons ( apparently a common thing with the ones that come over from the states, yanks used to mod them a lot) reckons it won't take a lot to get it looking right, if it cost more than a grand it's deffo not worth it, I've got my cb1300 going on the bay tonight along with the pc3, pipe , k&n filter and viper seat, that'll free up some funds, but whatever I do it will always be a bit scruffy. First job tomorrow is wheels out tomorrow and stripped, then cleaned up and painted black or gunmetal, white deffo don't work with this bike..gotta weld a different bracket on the kerker so I can fit some rear footrests, grind of the old bracket then paint down pipes and can black, hopefully have a seat and some seventies indicators by the weekend and it'll start shaping up. Gonna drop the forks in the yolks a tad too, it looks like it's wheeling at a standstill with the GPz front end lol. Original front end had axle in front of fork legs instead of inline, that's why the front muddie sits weird, a bit of elongating with the mounting holes tomorrow should sort that.
Rode it back last night, about forty miles, it's far better than that gt550, but brakes tyres suspension and handling are woefully nothing like modern..it'll be a nice bike to keep but only as a rally bike or local meet grunter, there no beating a modern ( by our standards that to me means anything built in the last 14 years) bike.
I honestly don't know if it's a good buy or not..the motor is sound, took it to an old skool bike mech today ( he runs a thou amongst others) he loved it, checked compression and it's got high comp pistons ( apparently a common thing with the ones that come over from the states, yanks used to mod them a lot) reckons it won't take a lot to get it looking right, if it cost more than a grand it's deffo not worth it, I've got my cb1300 going on the bay tonight along with the pc3, pipe , k&n filter and viper seat, that'll free up some funds, but whatever I do it will always be a bit scruffy. First job tomorrow is wheels out tomorrow and stripped, then cleaned up and painted black or gunmetal, white deffo don't work with this bike..gotta weld a different bracket on the kerker so I can fit some rear footrests, grind of the old bracket then paint down pipes and can black, hopefully have a seat and some seventies indicators by the weekend and it'll start shaping up. Gonna drop the forks in the yolks a tad too, it looks like it's wheeling at a standstill with the GPz front end lol. Original front end had axle in front of fork legs instead of inline, that's why the front muddie sits weird, a bit of elongating with the mounting holes tomorrow should sort that.
Rode it back last night, about forty miles, it's far better than that gt550, but brakes tyres suspension and handling are woefully nothing like modern..it'll be a nice bike to keep but only as a rally bike or local meet grunter, there no beating a modern ( by our standards that to me means anything built in the last 14 years) bike.