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Project z500

#1 PostAuthor: z650freak » Sun Nov 27, 2011 11:17 am

Hopefully whats left (after taking the tatt to the scrapman) of what I collected yesterday:

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Will after a few mods end up like the inspiration for the project:

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#2 PostAuthor: Padders » Sun Nov 27, 2011 11:33 am

They look great I like the one in the middle with the Beull front wheel. Keep the pictures coming and good luck with the project.
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#3 PostAuthor: andyb1962 » Sun Nov 27, 2011 11:35 am

the white bike looks awesome ........................bring it on!
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#4 PostAuthor: z650freak » Sun Dec 04, 2011 7:06 pm

Other than sourcing some one off parts and another my interest has gone off on a bit of a tangent in that the gent I am collecting the stuff from next week has a couple of replicas from the z500 series race cup from the early eighties.

Does anyone remember this and have any information they can let me have? Copies are fine.

Some may remember that Damon Hill raced in this series and it was won by Neil Storey. In the following year Neil raced in the Marlboro Clubman Series on a Z1000J.

Any help appreciated!
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#5 PostAuthor: coldsummer » Sun Dec 04, 2011 7:36 pm

Can't help you with the race series but I'm looking forward to seeing this progress.
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#6 PostAuthor: KwackerNut » Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:43 pm

Look forward to seeing the finished bike.

I've got a Z550A1 in nice condition, if I could only work out how you attach a picture to this site !

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#7 PostAuthor: Big Fluff » Fri Dec 09, 2011 11:50 am

KwackerNut wrote:Look forward to seeing the finished bike.

I've got a Z550A1 in nice condition, if I could only work out how you attach a picture to this site !

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#8 PostAuthor: Big Fluff » Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:05 am

Here's my Z500 from 1980 :shock:
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#9 PostAuthor: KwackerNut » Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:51 pm

Thanks Will

Have mastered the piccy thing now (Thanks to Steve).

She did look well at Lymm !
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Heres one I prepared earlier

#10 PostAuthor: z650freak » Fri Feb 03, 2012 6:19 pm

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I would like to say I have been industrious and busy and this is the result.....but I would be telling a porky!

This came my way at a good price so it would have been rude to refuse
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#11 PostAuthor: KwackerNut » Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:23 pm

Are you going to restore this one?

Did the Z500 have a rear disk originally?

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#12 PostAuthor: Big Fluff » Fri Mar 16, 2012 12:40 pm

KwackerNut wrote:Are you going to restore this one?

Did the Z500 have a rear disk originally?

Jim

Yes it did Jim. It was swapped to a drum on the 400J and 550 though.

My Z500 reg was JEK 929V
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