Definitely not factory finish steve
As for polishing the cases etc make a decision
on that when the motor comes back from buzzzard

Thanks Gordon was bit scary at the time
BUt good exscuse to do something wiyh it

Whoops first pic wasnt meant to come out three times

Out on my Z1000A2 couple Sundays ago suffered a puncture at 70mph but safely brought it to a halt. While waiting on the side of the motorway to be relayed home started to notice how scruffy and tatty it was looking after 11 years on the road after the last time i done it up so my mind was made up be...

Want to get my Z1000 frame braced.
Is there a kit you have to buy ?
If so where from ? and who is the best person to do this work?

Welcome aboard swirl

A proper motorbike nice one mate

Very nice bike everything about it looks great
and proper

I will be popping down on the Sunday

Sid.... you were bang on the mark
wires to the pick ups had gone brittle and hard
and when they got hot were separating.

My brothers quite clever at fixing fiddly things like that
soldered in new wire problem gone

No side stand switch ill check plug caps.

Cheers for the heads up on the coils rob.

Exactly what i was thinking mark with the coils
but with the tacho needle behaving like that
makes me wonder if its the cdi unit ?

Not an old Z but a GPz1000rx, start it up from cold runs absolutely fine, couple miles down the road starts to misfire badly and rev counter needle drops and rises with the misfire ? just started doing this yesterday, leave it to stand for an hour start it up and its fine again until a couple of mil...

Never thought of that ill drop some 3in1oil in the key slot

Blimey had my z for 11 years and all I do every winter is take the key out and put a cover overr it from about December to end of February and just drag it out the garage about march and fire it up never had a problem