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Blimey, and I thought CB750 pipes were expensive!Your mates bike is blooming lovely, Andrew, but i want to restore a bike for the pleasure of doing it, and so I don’t have to spend £20k. However it looks like these days you need that sort of wedge to find the right bike and do it properly.I’ll check out that forum, thanks.
My brother in law has a Z1000 with some OE Z1 pipes on it, he was saying the other day he's going to be selling it as his back won't let him ride it anymore. I may just end up buying it, it's not a Z1 but it's close enough I suppose.
Difference between the A1 and A2 Andrew? forgive my ignorance Kwacks never interested me enough to research them, I like some of them but only the Z1 had me tempted to go away from Honda. MY BIL bike looks just like the one in the article, same colour as well, sort of an olive green. Not sure how it got the exhausts to hang, I've never had to work on it as my other BIL does all the work on it, same BIL who keeps nicking my tools
I think you want one 'cos they have a beefy roller bearing crank Dave .... after all the hassle you had with Honda plain bearing cranks.It's bad enough getting hold of the Honda D.I.D. rims with the correct diamond logo and without the unsightly side scripting but the thought of having to search for correctly date coded Takasago rims would do my nut in What's the score with pattern pipes on a Z1 .. I have heard of Doremi but is there an equivalent of Yamiya No-number 750 HM300's?I must admit that that is one gorgeous looking 4 into 4 on the Z1. It's such a shame that the Z650B1 didn't have a 4 into 4 . I had one of those and it was a really nice bike ... plain bearing crank though Dave so a big no-no.
Quote from: Oddjob on July 17, 2020, 02:46:20 PMDifference between the A1 and A2 Andrew? forgive my ignorance Kwacks never interested me enough to research them, I like some of them but only the Z1 had me tempted to go away from Honda. MY BIL bike looks just like the one in the article, same colour as well, sort of an olive green. Not sure how it got the exhausts to hang, I've never had to work on it as my other BIL does all the work on it, same BIL who keeps nicking my tools The main noticable differences were: paint schemes, the A1 (77) was available in Diamond Wine Red or Diamond Sky Blue and the A2 (78) in Luminous Red or Green. Front calipers on the A2 moved to the rear of the fork legs. The A2 had lower handlebars.
Just asked him Andrew and it's a A1. Any idea of value? it's in really good condition but he's fitted what appear to be genuine 4 into 4 exhausts.
Has anyone here done one? Should you come across a little old lady who is sick of struggling to get her lawn mower past an old Z1 that has laid in her garage for years, let me know. James probably has a 1,000 mile one owner Z1 stashed away somewhere...
Just spoken to the BIL Andrew and I was wrong, he's got a 4 into 2 on it, my mistake.It's also an import (didn't know that) as was earmarked for the US police just before they switched over to Harleys so it didn't get converted. He does however need a right hand front caliper if you know anyone who has one, for some reason his only has one front disc and he has all the parts needed except the caliper. Kinda rare beast as I've found.
Damn he said he'd found a left hand one cheap but passed on it cause he thought they were handed, TBH so did I as they have different part numbers. To test that theory before buying I'll ask him to take off the left hand caliper and try a test fit onto the right leg. Thanks for the info.