how did you do it before the internet?

i bought my bike a couple years ago and dont know what i would do without this site. ive learned a lifetime of knowledge in a couple years. thanx to all. im just wondering how people like me or you diagnosed problems and got parts before the days of the internet. must have been frustrating.

I feel the same way! I don't know anybody interested in these bikes so I am at it myself with nobody to teach me first hand. If it weren't for the internet, in particular this site I don't know what I would do.

In the days before the internet, there were many many repair shops that actually knew what a KZ was...I farmed much of my business to them...now we have to rely on the internet because all those shops no longer exist, or no longer cover KZ's.

About 15 years ago I was into Mopars, kind of relates to the old Kawis. I would find parts or information in magazines, autoshopper/trader magazines or Hemmings. To meet people I would go to car shows or the drag strip and network that way. It was all by word of mouth and was a pain. I think if the internet was around then I would still have my Cuda. :dry:

X2 McDroid

The local Kaw dealer stocked parts for the KZ's and still serviced them. APE was a little shop in Burbank and I recall the old man stopping by Vance&Hines to pick up a new exhaust when I was a young teenager. The sources were much fewer and farther between, but it was managable. Hey, we'd didn't know any better, thats just how it was.

porchev914 wrote:

X2 McDroid

The local Kaw dealer stocked parts for the KZ's and still serviced them. APE was a little shop in Burbank and I recall the old man stopping by Vance&Hines to pick up a new exhaust when I was a young teenager. The sources were much fewer and farther between, but it was managable. Hey, we'd didn't know any better, thats just how it was.

Word. And we used our heads.

Mcdroid wrote:

In the days before the internet, there were many many repair shops that actually knew what a KZ was...I farmed much of my business to them...now we have to rely on the internet because all those shops no longer exist, or no longer cover KZ's.

yeahandi gotscrewed by most of them inthe learning process! :laugh: