Kawasaki Triples Club

Thanks for that, Roadriders it is then.

The old workshop has stopped behaving like a cold storage unit finally so I managed to split the crankcase ( with some trepidation if you've seen previous pics of my "barn/swamp find ).The crank area is a real mess,how on earth its accumulated so much crap is unreal,luckily the gearbox and clutch area are pristine thankfully.Why is it common to always butcher off the left barrel and leave it all exposed to the elements ? Also seems the l/hand exhaust goes missing along with the points/cdi unit plus the super rare side panel DKs did have a crank in better nick for a reasonable £70 which needs a bearing at least,not too bad for them.Hope you like the gory pics

Avon Roadriders fitted today

just finished painting tank

Thought i would post a pic of what i have been up to, not much progress really but it was in several boxes and not labelled up, the frame was a mess etc. etc. doing loads of cleaning....

2 steps forward - 2 steps back ......
The J1T nearly lives!

Good progress on Saturday, until I put some oil in the gearbox - I swear it came out the bottom as fast as I put it in the top! So footrests off, kickstart off, carb off etc - turned out the hole centres in the pattern gasket were off and as a result the gasket moved and distorted. No excuses. Dumb of me not to notice. Any way I happened to have some more gaskets so cleaned it all up, (decided to use a bit of gasket goo thus time as well) and put it all back together. It's fine now.

Finally got round to painting the silencer black, having decided it's past re- chroming, but with the freshly re-chromed heat guard and reasonable chrome on the down (up?) pipe I think it looks pretty good with the chrome over gloss black.

So exhaust system on, half a gallon of 33:1 in the tank, and it's ready to start. Half an hour later and I'm still kicking the little B......tard! It has run for 2 or 3 seconds at a time but not responding to the throttle yet. I think it would go with a push but it's too late now, so next weekend will be D day.

Bit disappointing as no reason why it shouldn't fire up: good spark, timings spot on. New crank seals and rings, only one way to fit the disk valve. Fuel in the ultrasonic bath cleaned carb. New plug. If it had been multiculinder I think it would have caught. Bit odd though as normally my fresh engines fire up after a few kicks.

Fitted new forks stanchions to my long term KH250 - ready for its MoT

I managed to get a decent set of H1f exhausts from the States a few weeks ago.
I took them to be re chromed ,3-4 MONTHS, waiting list. ffs.

Who's that with Gaz?

Johnnymoped wrote:Who's that with Gaz?

Prestige

John.

Mot for Mini man Chris Special H1! Bling Bling.
I took my H2C. Decided not to take a picture as Chris bike made it look so rough!!

Gary557 wrote:

Johnnymoped wrote:Who's that with Gaz?

Prestige

John.

Always busy there Gary - worth the wait though.

Just about finished my S2. Looks very nice, runs and sounds great





Pete

Looking good Pete well done.
How's the A7

g6mow wrote:Looking good Pete well done.
How's the A7

It still looks beautiful .....

VERY nice Pete,Another quality resto

I went out for a ride on my red 500e after getting it uk registered and preparing it to be used as it hasn't been on the road for many years. It is a absolute joy to ride. What a machine.

GREAT pics Graham

malc87 wrote:GREAT pics Graham

It's been a busy weekend in and around the man cave, installed Dot5 brake fluid, one of my bikes had what appeared to be a water and sludge mix in the master cylinder, fitted a rack( for my sandwiches ), a gps mount, for finding my way out of the county, and with a lot of help from Haggis, got my big Zed purring, it's got to go though as it's not a triple
Rich

Was out on my KT250 for first time last Saturday, Registration came though last week
(Cheers RB )