What have you done on your bike today?

Dragged the ZXR out of hibernation the other day… and got it on the ramp for surgery 👀


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Found 3 issues so far,

Seat lock stuck so could get the seat unit off - fixed now 🥳

Bolt stripped at the rear of the tank so couldn’t get the tank off - drilled out and got the threads out with an extractor today 🥳

Fuel cap sized on the latches - still working on that one 🥵

When I bought it as a 1 owner bike about 15 years ago I realised it had a few bodges from its first owner - the biggest being rear mudguard sawn off and crap indicators fitted, and fuel tap removed and piped direct with no reserve 🤷‍♂️.

Luckily when I bought the bike I sourced a rear mudguard and standard indicators along with a fuel tap which were easy to find back then 🙂


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This is the mess the first owner made of the back end…


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Today on removing the tank I revealed the K1’s lovely Keihin CR flat side carburettors 😍


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Once the fuel cap issue is resolved it needs a deep clean - and lots of crap anodised bolts that the first owner seemed to love changing back to normal.
He also had the centre of the wheels painted red so they need sorting too 😮
 
I was going to say something about you buying the parts to put it right 15 years ago…and that being about the average time for your projects…but I can’t be arsed with retorts…so I’ll keep quiet 😊
Good boy - this will be my third project in 2 months 😇
 
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