New here but thought I'd start a build thread on my basket case 79 KZ650. Before I get into it I'll share the background of this bike. It belonged to my good friend, the guy that got me into motorcycles over 20 years ago. Together we rode the KZ and my Gps 1100 throughout Central Florida. We moved to North Georgia in the mid 90s and tore up the mountain roads there, then moved back to Florida. Eventually he got out of bikes and into cars and gave me his KZ as "payment" for helping him in the pits during a weekend road race. Time rolled on, he met and married his wife, I met and married my wife, we started our families and drifted apart. The poor KZ sat behind a barn in East Tennessee for over a decade, untouched.
A few years ago I was bored and looking for a project and decided to put the old Kawi back on the road. It turned out to be a false start and it sat a few more years. Recently we moved to South Georgia and I decided I really need a distraction from work, so I loaded up the bike and moved it once again to a new home in a new state. I hope to get it running over the fall and winter and be able to ride it in the spring.
I have been reading this website a lot lately and I see there is a lot of knowledge here. I've seen some very nice bikes come from stack of boxes and barns, and hope to add another one to the list here. I'm going to try to post some pics of where I'm starting from.
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