1974 kz400
- Thread starter Ethanol
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tomsljr
Been Around the Block
Not a bad bike to start with, looks fairly clean from the picture. I'm going to subscribe to this thread, I'm doing a 400 as wellhttp://dotheton.com/index.php?topic=5542.0 If you haven't checked it out already, the forum at KZ400.com is incredibly helpful. The folks there have been incredibly helpful to me. Looking forward to what you have in store for the bike.
mccarleyholmes
Active Member
If your interested in a different exhaust take a look at this set. might fit?
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Ethanol
Coast to Coast
Hdaddy said:
I wish. I'm in grad school finishing my dissertation. I usually do school work from 9-5 (with breaks to check Dtt) then back to the garage till 1-2am. I listen to football on the radio and flip bikes on the side to make up on my meager TA salary. It is a good time to be selling motorcycles my friends. Anything with 2 wheels (mopeds-scooters-motorcycles) flys out as fast as I can put it on craig's list. Got some more stuff coming in the mail tomorrow (according to UPS).
The only problem is I'm a crap mechanic and a worse electrician. I can still get stuff running though.
I love it. If I had grown up with a mechanic for a dad instead of a professor I'd be a bike building machine. Like most of you guys (and gals) I wake up earlier on weekends than I do during the week just so I can go wrench. Gotta love what you do.
Also- I've done scooter bicycle and moped tires but is there anything I should know if I want to do moto tires? Same shit harder to pry off?
Ethan
Ethanol
Coast to Coast
BigSherm said:
Yeah but she doesn't like the chrome on the side panel. Wants me to paint it silver, like a brushed sort of look. She may be right.
The two of us are building her a 1964 Vespa right now. Should be done soonish. I feel kinda bad we've been working on her bike for almost a year. But to be fair the vespa has about 1 million times more body work.
colpumpkinnuts
Banned from public transportation
Nice work. I'm impressed with how fast you're getting this project done. Once I start to get tired during the day I have to stop messing around when I'm working on something. Otherwise I'll just get sloppy and pissed off and something will get broken. It's never good to start breaking things when you're in the process of fixing them. 
Ethanol
Coast to Coast
Ethanol said:So I got this bike last night at 8 o'clock.
Looked like this:
By 11-midnight it looked like this:
I'm gonna try to do this quickly so I can still ride before winter.
Do you guys have any pics/tips for doing the instrument cluster? I want something smaller and lower.
Getting a Trail Tech computer for speedo/tach etc.
