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What about the condition of the battery?

Didn’t they only emboss the numbers on the later models ?

+1 Made such a difference

Thanks Warren

Quick bit of advice from you knowledgeable chaps,when to put the decals on.This is going on a zephyr 1100 ( wire wheels ) choices are after base coat before lacquer,couple of coats of lacquer then apply decals with a couple of lacquer after or completely finish tank then apply

The good news is yours look identical to mine but a little bigger.Now the bad news ,my bike was imported from the states early 1990’s and these were some sort of aftermarket high compression piston.I damaged one of the oil rings and could not find a like for like replacement .In the end managed to f...

SR logistics would be a great place to start,bloke called Richard Baker picked my bike up from Derby to the middle of Kent.Specialist in bike transportation and definitely cares about the bikes

Very similar markings to my pistons

I reconnected the spliced leads to the horn,capped the live and have discarded,hopefully that’s all it was !!!!

Ever since I have had this bike (1994) it had a mystery electrical box with 4 marked wire connections with the wires disappearing into the loom.Under the cover had various relays and connectors.I bit the bullet and stripped the loom to find these wires,I hadn’t got a clue to what this was.There was ...

I spotted the z power one,not sure at that money

I have an idiot light cluster where the writing is on the surface and the letters have worn off!! Is this a common problem and is there a solution? My Z650 idiot lights the writing is below the surface so at the moment I have changed them over

Thanks for your help warren,found 4 original needles which should solve the problem,when it’s up and running might reduce the main jet size(it used to run a bit rich)

I have replaced original parts that the bike was running 105 main and the restrictor but still no improvement.The last thing was the needles which seemed to be 5CN15 instead of the Y63 that came with the kit.On replacing the original needles they were not in good shape,one wasn’t straight and one ha...