First, all the initial parts were collated and inspected ready for assembly. Forks, yokes, handle bars, swing arm, side stand, front brakes, rear brakes and torque arm. All parts cleaned, restored, repaired or replaced as needed. The assembly was straight forward, I wish i have done a time lapse of it. All in all I took about 2 hours greasing and assembling the KZ650C, transforming it for a compendium pf parts to my rolling chassis:
As you can see, looking promising, the wood was just to protect the bottom of the side stand, and below a close up of the wheels and brakes. Alarmingly, I did not restore the rear calipers when I did the fronts, so I took a few hours to do those as well. The result is rather pleasing, oh, and i have put the dust cover on the rear calipers now too:
I do like the black, polished aluminium and gunmetal combination on the wheels. I can't wait to get the rest of the build flowing and interval pictures.
The next few days will be spent bolting on other items such as the clocks, grips etc. Have to wait for the money tree to blossom again before purchasing the brake lines. I do have the old ones, however, the bike will benefit from braided hoses all around, not to mention it will look better too.
The to do list is then dominated by that unloved lump, 650cc of Kawasaki screaming 70's engine, not sure how far the strip is going to go. I am replacing a lot of gaskets, plugs and cleaning / polishing various engine casings. Painting a few in black too. Here is the video of the chassis, with my dulcet tones as a backing track, maybe i should learn a little video editing, and put a proper soundtrack to it.
I did like my dalliance with a video effect. I could get good at this...or tiresome, lol. Until later. TTFN
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