1977 KZ1000 new life

PLUMMEN wrote:

rslingshot wrote:

Today I finished the top bar clamps for the trees ,so now there done time to move on. I was going to make a welding fixture for the handle bars but I went ahead and cut a set of foot peg brackets that I had drew up last week. They are made for a after market set of foot peg assemblies for a gsx-r 1000. I made them with plenty of adjustment down,back,up whatever. Not sure if I like them or not just yet I'll see if they grow on me.

ask anybody who has known me more than 10 min and they will tell ya im the most anti billet,anti new-tech usd fork guy youll ever meet in your life,but damn even im in love with that top triple tree! :woohoo:

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Thanks PLUMMEN I am glad you like them, I was unsure of what they would look like when I was drawing them, things tend to look different after you cut them rather than on the computer, I wanted something that I had not seen done before and I think I got it.

i think the fact that you beveled the edges instead of just leaving things all sharp looking makes it look more like a finished casting,keep em coming!

Worked a few hours today finishing up the frontend so I can get this thing rolling so I can get a idea of the ride hight.

I cut the stock that I had left on the stem for fitting. And pressed the stem in the bottom tree and put the frontend on and put a swingarm on so I could check my hight. That is about how I want it to sit just not that long.





Then I put the mock up motor in and bolted everything up tight, then tack welded my lower motormount rail and my monoshock mounting rail in place. So sunday I will take out the motor and finish welding those up and work on the rest of the monoshock linkage. Sometime over the weekend I need to pick out a set of wheels that I want to run so I can order them this week, I need the rear one asap, because I am going to run a 240 rear tire setup. If I had that I could build the swingarm an start my outboard bearing support. And at somepoint during the weekend I will try to come up with some idea on a head light clamp set up, I am going to use an old gs1150 big flat 8 inch head light so I need to come up with something cool.

youre slowly converting me to liking upside frontends and mono shocks,dont stop now! :woohoo:

Almost forgot, Got my new sidewinder pipe in this week too.

Are you going drag racing with this bike or is it a bike night bike?

Click the link to see how I made some headlight mounting tabs to fit over the USD forks. I just bent up some 16ga and welded in some 6mm nuts. I know that you could pull this one off.

kzrider.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&...it=20&limitstart=700

I like what I see so far. That is a very creative way of getting your handlebars around the tops of the forks while keeping everything low.

testarossa wrote:

Are you going drag racing with this bike or is it a bike night bike?

Click the link to see how I made some headlight mounting tabs to fit over the USD forks. I just bent up some 16ga and welded in some 6mm nuts. I know that you could pull this one off.

kzrider.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&...it=20&limitstart=700

I like what I see so far. That is a very creative way of getting your handlebars around the tops of the forks while keeping everything low.

Testarossa had 42 pages. Boys, we are in for a big read.:woohoo:

testarossa wrote:

Are you going drag racing with this bike or is it a bike night bike?

Click the link to see how I made some headlight mounting tabs to fit over the USD forks. I just bent up some 16ga and welded in some 6mm nuts. I know that you could pull this one off.

kzrider.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&...it=20&limitstart=700

I like what I see so far. That is a very creative way of getting your handlebars around the tops of the forks while keeping everything low.

Not a true drag bike at least not with a 240 rear tire and it won't be a trailer queen, I just get a little carried away when I build things, I run the piss out of every thing I build or own.

Thanks for the link for the head lamp brackets I will check it out.

blipco wrote:

testarossa wrote:

Are you going drag racing with this bike or is it a bike night bike?

Click the link to see how I made some headlight mounting tabs to fit over the USD forks. I just bent up some 16ga and welded in some 6mm nuts. I know that you could pull this one off.

kzrider.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&...it=20&limitstart=700

I like what I see so far. That is a very creative way of getting your handlebars around the tops of the forks while keeping everything low.

Testarossa had 42 pages. Boys, we are in for a big read.:woohoo:

Man you don't have to worry about me writng too much and getting real technical, because my typeing and spelling skills suck. I'll just post alot of pics(lol)

Ok this morning I worked a little on the monoshock set up, I took an old Hayabusa swingarm that I had cut the top brace off of and turned down some aluminum bushings/spacers that fit the kz pivot bolt.I made it a tight fit because I am useing a hayabusa rear shock set up and I want to keep as much as the Busa geometry as possible. Today I will take some measurements off of a Hayabusa frame that I have and also from my 05 GSX-R 750, From that I should be able to keep it pretty close to the same geometry as a Busa. But now I am going to go cut the grass before it gets to be 110 in the shade!

Ok I am stuck, Not sure what wheel I like better. There both Performance Machine top one is called Torque and the bottom is called Heathen. I geuss I'll call on tuesday and see what they have in stock.

I'm not big on directional mags/spokes like the Torque. I really like the Heathen, though. Just my 2 cents.