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  • cs
    Elite Invisible Member
    • Feb 2001
    • 19012

    I think I want this bike

    1977 KZ650








    Price don't seem bad at $3200
    Chad
    There are three ways to do things: The right way, the wrong way and my way.

    Three Little Birds
    Love is My Religion
  • Reynard38
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2009
    • 12533

    #2
    Re: I think I want this bike

    If the work is top notch, and the motor is in good shape not a bad price. I'd offer $2750 and hope to ride it away for $3k.
    Fight Entropy, build a wooden boat!

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    • Bobcat
      Formerly a Smallboat Guy
      • May 2007
      • 9547

      #3
      Re: I think I want this bike

      I like cafe racers. That one looks good. I am thinking of building a cafe bike in the next bit
      What's not on a boat costs nothing, weighs nothing, and can't break

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      • coelacanth2
        Senior Member
        • Apr 2006
        • 2804

        #4
        Re: I think I want this bike

        Unless it's really perfect 3200 seems a bit steep. If it has the CV carbs (constant velocity) the diaphragms could be cracked or dry rotted and new bits are very hard to find. OTOH if it has conventional carbs with cable slides, bob's yer uncle. You might want to check on availability of fork seals, gaskets, brake bits and the like. That's why I chose the Guzzi.
        Brute force and ignorance, all in one bulky and unappealing package

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        • StevenBauer
          LPBC member
          • Jan 2000
          • 23277

          #5
          Re: I think I want this bike

          Not crazy about that one. This is the one I want next:

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          • George Ray
            Senior Member
            • Sep 2004
            • 2765

            #6
            Re: I think I want this bike

            The compact foldable recumbent bike with full suspension is folding small in car, train or at home and unfolds pure driving pleasure on tour.

            This is the first lesson ye should learn: There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us.
            E. Cayce

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            • s1120
              Member
              • Jun 2011
              • 51

              #7
              Re: I think I want this bike

              Nice looking bike, but my fear with buying a custom bike/car/whatever.. is that is can look good....but how is the workmanship??? I would be shooting for the 2500 range myself if all looks good, and runs well. One thing though..... have you riden it?? Im alittle concerned that they are mixing up the Cafe racer world, with the chopper world... Im not to keen on the zero suspention travel on the back... Should realy have the rear higher, and more weight on the front IMHO. Also that front fork seems allful tucked in.... might want to check to see if something has not been butcherd up in the neck area to get the "look"

              Coelacanth Im with you... Big Guzzi fan!!!! Last bikes were a 77 RD400, and a old GS650GL Suzu that I had slightly taller shocks on the rear, superbike bar, and sucked the firks a inch up the trees to get rid of some of that 80's "cruzer" look and ride. That Suzu was a sweet bike and I hated to see it go, along with the RD, but kids...house...etc.. it happands... Next ride will be a Guzzi when I find the right starting point!!
              Paul B

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              • BrianW
                not your average member
                • Nov 2002
                • 28191

                #8
                Re: I think I want this bike

                I'd talk'em down $500 because there's no seat pad.
                “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”― Mark Twain,

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                • jack grebe
                  Misunderstood
                  • Feb 2001
                  • 13530

                  #9
                  Re: I think I want this bike

                  unless your plan is to sit it in your garage and maybe take a trip around the block
                  once a month, I would run, not walk, away from that. Take it from someone who
                  just had a 78 Yamaha rebuilt...........parts are incredibly hard to find for bikes that
                  old. I spent almost 6 months trying to find a set of aftermarket or NOS pistons and
                  rings. Regardless of current condition, it's still an old bike, and things will go bad.
                  Originally posted by George Jung
                  Don't under-estimate Jack. He's purty damned talented

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                  • seanz
                    Resilient?
                    • Nov 2006
                    • 23662

                    #10
                    Re: I think I want this bike

                    Save your pennies Chad and buy a modern Triumph Thruxton. The Japanese 4s from that era can be a heavy bike for what they do.
                    We don't know how lucky we are....

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                    • Tylerdurden
                      Banned
                      • Jul 2006
                      • 19903

                      #11
                      Re: I think I want this bike

                      Originally posted by seanz
                      Save your pennies Chad and buy a modern Triumph Thruxton. The Japanese 4s from that era can be a heavy bike for what they do.
                      I am with you on that completely. It would be my choice hands down.

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                      • Keith Wilson
                        Trying to be reasonable
                        • Oct 1999
                        • 64122

                        #12
                        Re: I think I want this bike

                        Save your pennies Chad and buy a modern Triumph Thruxton.
                        Good advice, great bike.




                        If you do want a bike from the '70s, Yamaha XS650 twins have a strong following, and just about every part is readily available
                        "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations,
                        for nature cannot be fooled."

                        Richard Feynman

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                        • LeeG
                          Senior Member
                          • May 2002
                          • 72803

                          #13
                          Re: I think I want this bike

                          Originally posted by StevenBauer
                          Not crazy about that one. This is the one I want next:

                          like it

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                          • Memphis Mike
                            Banned
                            • Jun 2001
                            • 12533

                            #14
                            Re: I think I want this bike

                            Buy yourself something comfortable to ride on a trip. That bike screams ballbuster.

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                            • Mrleft8
                              Banned
                              • Feb 2000
                              • 31864

                              #15
                              Re: I think I want this bike

                              That's a death trap Chad. Light frame, big heavy motor. Like the KZ500 they tend to flex into a curve, then spring back... If you're on any kind of loose surface at all, they just sort of slide out from under you.

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