Hello from Argentina!!

Good morning!

My name is Mariano, I'm from Argentina, and I finally managed to buy the motorcycle I'd been after for years from the father of a good friend. It's a 1980 z650, in very good condition. I don't know if the color is original; I've always seen it like this, and I still can't figure out the details to know for sure. I work in technology for large companies, and at night, when my family is asleep, I go for a ride to unwind. I love the sound, I love the motorcycle, and I feel happy every time I put on my helmet and go for a ride.

Thanks to those who make this consultation place for zriders possible, the effort must be considerable.

Regards!
         

Welcome from the USA
Dave

NICE BIKE

Welcome to the forum! Bienvenido! 

elaurens wrote:

Good morning!

Thanks to those who make this consultation place for zriders possible, the effort must be considerable.

Regards!

 

You're Welcome Mariano !
There are four of us Mods, not that this crowd needs much supervision, but we do enjoy our duties.
Please be sure to look into the File Base there's a lot of resource material there.

Welcome to KZR !
Bill/KZQ

Welcome to the fun! You have a great looking machine that to me appears to be an F model.

Welcome from the UK

Welcome.

What you have there is the last of the C series 650's, a C4 to be precise. They have very low production numbers, but yours has been repainted as the stock decals are missing. There were only two colors offered and one was black pearl.

 

The exhaust looks to be a stock system from a later model, possibly from a F series. It looks like only the mufflers were swapped out as it has non stock muffler brackets.

You can get more info here :

www.jarlef.no/Kawasaki/Series/Z/650/Z650C.htm
 

Hi Mariano, and welcome to a fantastic forum of help and knowledge.
Rich.
New Zealand.

Hello and welcome Mariano, from Canada.
Nice looking z650 you have there too.

Welcome aboard!

Thank you so much! Great eye, I'd missed that detail about the exhaust pipe. My friend's father bought it in 1986, already that color and in that condition. It sat indoors for about eight years in a clean area, so I had to take apart everything that had fluids in it, clean it, replace wires that had dried out over time, replace some gaskets and O-rings, and do a lot of work on the carburetors. For now, they're working fine, but they tend to leak when I leave it on its side stand... Thanks for the info!