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    Ok guys the year of the bike is 7/83

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    No worries thx Kev , its no good to me thx anyway.

    O and thx for the heads up with unicorn, picking up a zx9 front off him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by damo1 View Post
    No worries thx Kev , its no good to me thx anyway.

    O and thx for the heads up with unicorn, picking up a zx9 front off him.

    thats good glad I can help mate cant wait to see your bike with it all done. My plane before was to retro fit a zrx1200 front n rear into the gpz

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    Ok guys im going to sell this on ebay next week if it's not sold here to a member

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    Aye Kev,

    Flick me some images to my phone ( so I can see it properly) and let me know what your chasing I may........... be interested or know someone.

    0400 three six four 9 one two

    Yeah looking forward to the resto mod im doing to take the bike to the next step.

    Last thing I gotta do is a rear shock swap and its complete, aaarrrrr for now.

    Thanks again for the heads up, he looked after me ;-)

    Then I dropped your name and everything doubled hahaha

    cheers damo
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    Quote Originally Posted by damo1 View Post
    Aye Kev,

    Flick me some images to my phone ( so I can see it properly) and let me know what your chasing I may........... be interested or know someone.

    0400 three six four 9 one two

    Yeah looking forward to the resto mod im doing to take the bike to the next step.

    Last thing I gotta do is a rear shock swap and its complete, aaarrrrr for now.

    Thanks again for the heads up, he looked after me ;-)

    Then I dropped your name and everything doubled hahaha

    cheers damo

    Yeah you copped the big kev discount lmao , Petes a top bloke

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    Kev txt me your number , I have someone interested.

    Need to know what your chasing for it.

    cheers damo

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    Cheers heaps damo the gpz is now sold

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    No probs

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    Dads gf just swapped her old shitter(car) for this
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    as a bit remembrance/project from when he used to race.
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    he says this about it:
    The kwaka runs like shit ... chain stretched so surges, engine surges too, camshafts/camchain rattle when cold, something else rattles when slowing, weighs 217kg dry, skinny tyres react to lines on the road ... But it is a very interesting bike right from my early days ... manufactured the year the racing pic was taken
    chain and sprockets are a simple fix, but any other things he should start with first?
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    Carb rebuild - resonable chance the diaphragms will be rooted, pilot jets may be blocked - this will lean it out at small throttle openings, making for a lean surge at constant speed.
    Check cam-chain for stretch, check the self adjuster does it's thing.

    Nice pic of him racing a GT750 though!
    I can't say enough about how good the continental radials are in the skinny sizes - Road Attack 2 (you can get them in a Historic racing compound which works well for a road bike - they're aimed at things like the SPa 4 hour race, so they give reasonable life).
    Bin those shocks (Throw Ikons at it at a minimum, Gazi or others if the $$ can be spared), and put a set of springs and racetech emulators through the forks - will make a world of difference to how it rides.

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    thanks Gammaboy,

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