A couple of new tracker projects in the future...

So a friend of mine who is not currently on the board recently picked up a KZ400 and it ready for the tracker treatment. I wasn't very familiar with the Kawi 400 motor, but it's a nice 2 with Trump-like lines. After cleaning it up and removing the carbs, the appear to have been salvaged from salt water (battery acid in the float bowls? Who knows?). So he's going to need a newer set of carbs, cables, battery, plugs, tires, and we'll see what else once we get it to fire.

The coolest occurence of kismet happened this weekend. The Harvest Classic was taking place in Luckenbach and I couldn't make it due to scheduling conflicts. I'm walking down 6th Street to get a pint when I see a BEAUTIFUL Yammy tracker in light blue. Struck up a convo with the rider and it turns out that he and his buddy run this site: http://www.vft.org/. I invited them over to the board to drop some knowledge at some point. They also turned me on to a track out in Waco where they run, so my friend and I will be loading up a trailer soon to do some real-time testing.

The next day, I'm sitting in Casino eating one of their famous burgers, when the same friend calls up and tells me he just scored a FREE '70 XS650. This one is in better shape than the KZ400-needs a battery, new ignition/key (screwdriver for now),tires, and alot of crap stripped off it, but it'll be sweet. He needs papers on both, so that's the next obstacle after getting them running/inspectable.

Pics coming soon.

Remember I commented about and posted the VFT site? It is way cool.

My first 'real' motorcycle was a LTD400, you couldn't kill that stinkin' thing but... She almost killed me like a hundred times! I'm interested to see what ya come up with here, I been thinking about doin' a tracker / scrambler / super motard mashup here lately.

Well, with my traveling out of the way and the cold months upon us, I'm in the process of getting at least one of the bikes to my garage to start a more thorough tear down and inventory of needed repairs. I'll post something soon.

I'm excited to see some Tracker treatment on a KZ400!

I am too-wish he had the cash to start already! :

Kev Nemo said:

I am too-wish he had the cash to start already! :

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Haha...know how that goes. Need to tear my KZ down for some work, but am terrified to do so if I don't have the money locked down....just can't risk not having it back on the road the moment the sun is back out...

And my personal bikes rectifier possibly went out (killing brand new batteries and not wanting to turn over), so I gotta fix that first :

We are buidling a KZ250 for my girlfriend, kinda wrenchmonkee style tracker.