Here is my 1975 UK Registered Z1B. This bike had a hard time of it in it's early days. A friend bought it in Manchester in the late seventies, it had a 'Bat out of Hell' paint job, K&N filters, the head and barrels had been hand painted with hammerite black and it had four straight through pipes which had been cut off under the engine; sounded like hell on earth. The guy stripped the bike and gradually lost interest in it. I bought it from him as a basket case in 1983 and have owned it since that day. Here are some pics of it over the last five years.
2007, I know it's the wrong paint job, this is an early Dream Machine job (1983/84) they did this from a photograph of a Z1A (this was before mobiles and computers) I think they ran out of black paint.....
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2007 with uk spec rear mudguard, 900A4 Cissy bar and US reflectors on front forks
Winter 2009 motor removed for some tlc
New cam chain, all else looking good
New valve guides
Nice...new valve seats
a good honing and new rings...
motor back in frame
Akront front rim (Borrani got mashed ), goodridge stainless brake hoses and UK front fork covers
2010 with custom seat and short rear mudguard after being skittled from behind by an X6
2012 with Ohlins shocks
Borrani rim and stainless spokes
bespoke stainless pipe
Nicely coloured Harris headers
Rear footrests..night shift jobby, stainless and alloy
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