Nice body set

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Good work, nearly there.

Welcome along. ttiw :welc Zx9R C and E forks are some of the longer “ modern” forks, but the J forks are even longer than the Zed forks, and you’re dropping an inch with the 17” wheels too. I have 17” wheels in my 1000R (similar height as J) with standard forks and it’s sits okay and handles really ...

The one in the centre of the engine...

Very picturesque

Just to clarify I think the repro grabrail in question is from M&P and seems to be slightly different to all the grabrails encountered so far, there have been100 club racks made so far and this issue hasn’t arisen before

Looks well...

Oggers wrote:
or a combination of all of the above

If you’re laying on its side to lift the frame off don’t forget to drain the oil out first...

Luvley shiny bits...

Fairly flakey the Gringo

I've a pair in the garage that were the originals new on my Z1000A1 and they're both like that with the extra tab. If those are definitely original maybe during 1974/1975 production Kawasaki decided to add the mod and your bike got one of each...

There’s a Z1B on the cover of Sunrise to Z1 with one of those grab rails so they probably originated in 1975 but they really only came in with the A4. To my mind they’re spectacularly ugly. I’ve heard this thing before about frames bring written off by the indicators but I find it hard to credit the...