Dont know if you are interested I have a frame that I used bought from a guy who ran it as a drag bike, its heavily braced and originally had a monoshock (cantilever ) swing arm, again heavily braced as the guy ran it as a turbo. I re-welded the twin shock mounts back onto it to use it for earlystoc...

Have a look at z-enterprises as teh $-? ratio makes their stuff good value at present.

Look at the thread I started called what to do with new wheels loads of the guys have contributed and i will add some more stuff soon, as I have been doing lots of digging around. In Nutshell though zrx11 forks are the same length to the spindle as z1000a1 forks, The stem looks narrow enougth to fit...

Yep, I saw his he used an h1 front end. There is also a trick zed for sale on ebay that has usd's but he used a zxr400 setup and claims he literally just changed the bearings on the stem, and hey presto. But what does that do to the height? I recently had a vtr1000 in the garage (a mates) and that f...

Thanks guys, (The bearing nos are useful) I have already considered the fork length problem and maxton can lengthen the forks as they have done this on many others (although not zx7's). The other alternative is izax engineering can do offset yokes but both options run into the ?400+ bracket. I appre...

The DVLA web site can dash your hopes my 650 had not been taxed or sorn for years, when I looked it up at the web site a few weeks before it popped up on ebay. I think there are a lot out there just sitting in storage that people cannot be ars'd to sorn. Which reminds me I probably should sorn my sp...

Warwick,
Nice bike1 I like the pipes as they are not the usual 4-1, what make are they?
Phil

Decided to start on the old 650 for those who who have not read this on padders dyson thread here's the history, "I was inspired about a month ago by reading Padders find of the DYSON 250,and looked up my old z650 reg on the DVLA web site as I was curious to find out if it still lived. It appea...

Will do thanks.

Pigford, Chris, Steve, Excellent food for thought and very comprehensive. (Had to read Steves again tonight when I was more sober, as the first time it passed me by) Both Chris's and Pigfords bikes look cool, (even with the purple) very nice. I think I will do two things, 1. Get a wider swing arm fo...

Thanks for that thats just one question are you running standard lenght forks, or gsxr items?
Cheers
Phil

I have a few ideas regarding upgrading my wheels to run wider tyres and rims, so as loads of people must have gone down that route I thought I would ask for some input. If I build some wider spoke rims what are the largest sizes I can get away with running on standard swing arm and forks? If I go th...

Chris, Ignore my last pm as I have just read the thread updates. In my kwacker manual the z1000-j3/r2/r1 wiring diagram gives the colours as red and black on one coil and red and green on the other which makes the common colour to both coils the red. The colours from pickup coil to igniter box are r...

!!!Figured out the picture posting!!! Flame job was how I bought it in 82, red was my handiwork, twin discs chrome bits etc (note the painted front tyre) http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd291/kwackerz1/z6501984.jpg White picture is how it is now. (same front tyre) http://i223.photobucket.com/albu...

I was inspired about a month ago by reading Padders find of the DYSON 250,and looked up my old z650 reg on the DVLA web site as I was curious to find out if it still lived. It appeared dead and had not been registered or sorn for years. :( Then low and behold two weeks ago on ebay a similiar one app...