Classic Jap bikes

[Arronduke]

OK show me some classsic jap bikes...

How about our own page... or better still a project page...

Here are a couple of mine... come on show me yours...:drool:

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php/137144-KX250-rebuild-after-all-I-ve-ridden-it-half-a-dozen-times-and-it-s-worn-out.../page9

http://www.fxr150.co.nz/forum/showthread.php?278-FXR-Build-for-Mt-Wellington

[SMOKEU]

I will take some pics tomorrow of my (small) collection.

[Laava]

If only Kiwibiker had a section devoted to Classic Japanese Motorcycles! If only!

[ducatilover]

266225 Very, very rare Dougati 300SS :lol:

[onearmedbandit]

If only Kiwibiker had a section devoted to Classic Japanese Motorcycles! If only!

Suggestion taken on-board. I created one just now and then trawled through the thousands of threads on KB and picked the ones out that most suited your suggestion and moved them there. Just like this one.

[gammaguy]

heres a couple of mine

[eelracing]

OK show me some classsic jap bikes...

How about our own page... or better still a project page...

Here are a couple of mine... come on show me yours...:drool:

Nice build on the KX but what else have you got lurking in that shed???Is that a RGV front end on the Elsie?(sacrilege...haha)I have a blue 350Lc I intend to get back on the road at some stage,but i've been saying that for to long now.




heres a couple of mine

Fantastic RG but small pic can't do it justice.More please.TDR is mint.


I love smokers if you hav'nt guessed and some of the collection are as follows 1980 RM125,1974 TS400(Apache)bastardised into a MX'r,1983 RM125 and 1990 RGV250 racebike.

[Laava]

[] Very, very rare Dougati 300SS :lol:

Did you use the donk to power up the BBQ?

[Laava]

Suggestion taken on-board. I created one just now and then trawled through the thousands of threads on KB and picked the ones out that most suited your suggestion and moved them there. Just like this one.

Bahahahahahahaha! I was trying out the new sarcasm font!

[onearmedbandit]

Bahahahahahahaha! I was trying out the new sarcasm font!

Yup I got that, while my reply was lacking the font it was still sarcastic, although not aimed at you.

[Subike]

My $20 One previous owner, 378,000 miles 1980 XS1100 Yamaha the day I bought her home.

Take note how rusty the front disc's are, She had not been ridden for 2 years.

[Katman]

If only Kiwibiker had a section devoted to Classic Japanese Motorcycles! If only!

You should start a poll.

[classic zed]

Here is my old girl, I had a thread running back in 2006 when I finished it, I still love getting out and terrorising the cages with her :lol:

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php/31428-At-last-it-s-finished

and my other Z1300 is undergoing a remake

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php/59365-Project-Z-going-well

although its not had much done to it for a while cos Iv got another project on the go, a mid engined (4.2 Audi V8) Volkswagon polo :headbang:

[Laava]

So you going to enter one or both in the show Tim?

[classic zed]

Just the restored one, the project is still too far off:(

[Arronduke]

heres a couple of mine

Nice RG... how long have you had it?

[Arronduke]

Nice build on the KX but what else have you got lurking in that shed???Is that a RGV front end on the Elsie?(sacrilege...haha)I have a blue 350Lc I intend to get back on the road at some stage,but i've been saying that for to long now.





Fantastic RG but small pic can't do it justice.More please.TDR is mint.


I love smokers if you hav'nt guessed and some of the collection are as follows 1980 RM125,1974 TS400(Apache)bastardised into a MX'r,1983 RM125 and 1990 RGV250 racebike.

ELLRacing... nice bikes... Man your had core. All racing machines... nice .

[Arronduke]

Just the restored one, the project is still too far off:(

Nice Job on the Z... I am looking to do this to my Kat...

[ducatilover]

Did you use the donk to power up the BBQ?
Wasn't grunty enough, so I used it to fill some space in my rubbish bin


My $20 One previous owner, 378,000 miles 1980 XS1100 Yamaha the day I bought her home.

Take note how rusty the front disc's are, She had not been ridden for 2 years.

That is very nice, love the colour scheme.

[Arronduke]

WOW... I feel like I have found home. so cool.

Kids are away at thair grand parents... drinking beer.. small puff and Neil Young... Live .....10min of Slipped Away....boot leg. And life could not get better!

I love my classic Jap bikes... these were the things that made me get hard when i was young.... First the Kat... then the GSXR and RG... the RG500 was it that was well increadable. I made a pact to myself that one day I would own one.

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Brought the 750... felt like a failure.. but paid it off to the misses... and then this came up.. 10min call at lunch time to the nag and it was brought... subject to the bank.

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[98tls]

Will take a few pics tommorow of mine,both awaiting my looto win,,both all there but in bits/boxes,Z65O and XS Triple bought with some nice aftermarket bits back in the day,3/1 and very tasty "Stone" like bikini fairing.

[98tls]

Thats a well tasty 1100 fella,very nice indeed.Dont let it go.

[Subike]

Thats a well tasty 1100 fella,very nice indeed.Dont let it go.


Its a keeper Mike, under restoration now, and I dont care if it take 10 years to restore.

Dont need to buy a retro look bike, when I own one of the better retro super bikes from the late 70"s.

And one day we might just ride a road together, you on the XS750, me on the XS1100

[98tls]

Its a keeper Mike, under restoration now, and I dont care if it take 10 years to restore.

Dont need to buy a retro look bike, when I own one of the better retro super bikes from the late 70"s.

And one day we might just ride a road together, you on the XS750, me on the XS1100

In the meantime mate i want to buy another of these in completly oem condition,have a shitload of parts in the shed so buy a fucked one and get it nice,give it a few years and the TLS will be one a the great jap classics. http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a92/tlme/new005Medium.jpg

[gammaguy]

Nice RG... how long have you had it?

since brand new

its a genuine yoshimura replica

and yes trainspotters,suzuki made a replica of a bike yoshimura never made- a two stroke.

but its yoshi colors and thats the way suzuki made it.

ill never sell it.:cool:

[eelracing]

ELLRacing... nice bikes... Man your had core. All racing machines... nice .

Not so much hardcore just love lightweight two strokes.


WOW... I feel like I have found home. so cool.

Kids are away at thair grand parents... drinking beer.. small puff and Neil Young... Live .....10min of Slipped Away....boot leg. And life could not get better!

Eh? you mean apart from riding that 500 surely.



since brand new

its a genuine yoshimura replica

and yes trainspotters,suzuki made a replica of a bike yoshimura never made- a two stroke.

but its yoshi colors and thats the way suzuki made it.

ill never sell it.:cool:


You and Arronduke have got it sussed,both beautiful bikes and i'm much jealous.

[SPman]

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The CB350 and GT250 - both awaiting refurbishment still....


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The RG250 - this was a WW model that suffered a wiring loom fire, was pretty munted and was going to be scrapped. A local guy got stuck in and rebuilt it - the paint job is all spraycan, including the graphics. Its a hoot to ride, espec on the rough roads locally....Life starts at 7000......

[avgas]

heh I should post my 87 FZR here.........would make a few people cry to see what I have done to it..........and they wouldn't be tears of joy.

One day she will blow up / decompose

[gammaguy]

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The CB350 and GT250 - both awaiting refurbishment still....




The RG250 - this was a WW model that suffered a wiring loom fire, was pretty munted and was going to be scrapped. A local guy got stuck in and rebuilt it - the paint job is all spraycan, including the graphics. Its a hoot to ride, espec on the rough roads locally....Life starts at 7000......

those WW models are now selling for big money in Japan

worth restoring and hanging on to:cool:

[SPman]

Yeah - I'm trying to find a rear seat cover. Found one on yahoo japan, but wasn't up to figuring out how to actually buy it!

[gammaguy]

Yeah - I'm trying to find a rear seat cover. Found one on yahoo japan, but wasn't up to figuring out how to actually buy it!

got one in my warehouse in japan if youre interested

[malcy25]

Okay boys, I'll take the bait....

One is what the collection looked like a year back, the black rev cylinder TZ250U on the end has gone as I wasn't using it. BONKERS to ride. So much fun. Spent the money (and more on a new push bike)

The rest are still mine.

Not really into road bikes, but the OW01 was one bike I always wanted. Has only got 100bhp at the contact patch, but the chassis and gearbox are the the real deal. Does wicked backfires on the over-run as they suck air though the EXUP valve. Bitch on the road (hot, limited lock, hard on the wrists), so don't bother these days.

The TZ750 is a 76 model, last of the twinshock ones. has been a Wobbly bloody thing, very very fun motor. getting the handling sorted though. It was the donor bike for Stu Avant and the Nico Bakker framed TZ750 he used in the 76 Marlboro series. It was then sold to Trev Discombe and I heard recently that at some point Mike Pero rode it with the original frame (as like it is now). Ohlins rear shocks, Wobbly pipes, RT fork internals. 35 bux a lap at Puke to run....

The TZ350F (3rd one down, red white) is the full deal, with McIntosh frame (one of 6), plus boogie ign system, trick carb and fork internals, R Taylor Ohlins rear shock, RG500 gp bike clutch conversion, pukka 18 inch Dunlop race tyres and now has 2x period Brembo 05 capliers and 10 1/2 inch discs. It's been to Aussie 11 times to race at Phillip Island with me.

My brother's collection is broadly similar....though he doesn't have an OW01, but two TZ750's :killingme and a BSA Gold Star.

Gone for quality over quantity.

[98tls]

Wo:2thumbsupvery nice indeed.

[Laava]

Nice Malcy any of these in the upcoming show?

[pete376403]

Does an early FZR1000 (pre-exup) count as a classic? There's one in the shed to needs a fair bit of TLC to be re-vinned (new disks, battery and tyres and brake hoses for a start) but it is complete- Engine ran fine last time it was started, grearbox has been replaced with 6 speed FZ700 cluster. Would it be worth anything? Vance and Hines exhaust, paint and logos if that counts for anything

[malcy25]

Nice Malcy any of these in the upcoming show?

The yellow 750 would be the one, but it's lot of grief to tee it up, so not thinking too hard on it.

[Laava]

The show is incl post classic up to '93.

[avgas]

Prob not the best photos but lets see what I can dig up....
266401266402266403 still have to dig up photos of the GB's and XS's. I think I have some polariods of my TS as well.
80's Jappas are the bee's knee's

[Voltaire]

I was speaking to the organiser of the show and he was keen to get more Japanese bikes.....Brit, Kraut,Yank and Iti bikes are quite common it seems.....
Mr Malcy....is the Post Classic's not having their own display? or you could demonstrate how to step off gracefully in the carpark...:banana:
dare ya to post that piccy....:eek5:

[avgas]

I was speaking to the organiser of the show and he was keen to get more Japanese bikes.....Brit, Kraut,Yank and Iti bikes are quite common it seems.....
Mr Malcy....is the Post Classic's not having their own display? or you could demonstrate how to step off gracefully in the carpark...:banana:
dare ya to post that piccy....:eek5:
Wow that is a change of heart. I remember years ago turning up on a GB to a classic meet - and having a (lets just call him "old knob") come up to me and tell me I "was riding jap crap"....... This was after a nice old guy told me that my GB stirred memories to him of his Norton (his smile was awesome).

[malcy25]

I was speaking to the organiser of the show and he was keen to get more Japanese bikes.....Brit, Kraut,Yank and Iti bikes are quite common it seems.....
Mr Malcy....is the Post Classic's not having their own display? or you could demonstrate how to step off gracefully in the carpark...:banana:
dare ya to post that piccy....:eek5:


you asked.....!

For reference, tyres on warmers for an hour plus, 5 laps into it, super sticky classic race Dunlops....still lost the front on a cold track and didn't even have my knee down.

[Laava]

Oh you definately have your knee down in that pic!

[Arronduke]

Okay boys, I'll take the bait....

One is what the collection looked like a year back, the black rev cylinder TZ250U on the end has gone as I wasn't using it. BONKERS to ride. So much fun. Spent the money (and more on a new push bike)

The rest are still mine.

Not really into road bikes, but the OW01 was one bike I always wanted. Has only got 100bhp at the contact patch, but the chassis and gearbox are the the real deal. Does wicked backfires on the over-run as they suck air though the EXUP valve. Bitch on the road (hot, limited lock, hard on the wrists), so don't bother these days.

The TZ750 is a 76 model, last of the twinshock ones. has been a Wobbly bloody thing, very very fun motor. getting the handling sorted though. It was the donor bike for Stu Avant and the Nico Bakker framed TZ750 he used in the 76 Marlboro series. It was then sold to Trev Discombe and I heard recently that at some point Mike Pero rode it with the original frame (as like it is now). Ohlins rear shocks, Wobbly pipes, RT fork internals. 35 bux a lap at Puke to run....

The TZ350F (3rd one down, red white) is the full deal, with McIntosh frame (one of 6), plus boogie ign system, trick carb and fork internals, R Taylor Ohlins rear shock, RG500 gp bike clutch conversion, pukka 18 inch Dunlop race tyres and now has 2x period Brembo 05 capliers and 10 1/2 inch discs. It's been to Aussie 11 times to race at Phillip Island with me.

My brother's collection is broadly similar....though he doesn't have an OW01, but two TZ750's :killingme and a BSA Gold Star.

Gone for quality over quantity.

WOW... I cant say much more..WOW..

[gammaguy]

very nice bikes malcy25 (i probably know you from somewhere in the racetrack strewn past..)

some nice 2T porn and an OWOI!(cause thats what the riders say when they go over the bumps) thrown in for the valve inclined among us!

more power to your jets sir!

[slowpoke]

Okay boys, I'll take the bait....

One is what the collection looked like a year back, the black rev cylinder TZ250U on the end has gone as I wasn't using it. BONKERS to ride. So much fun. Spent the money (and more on a new push bike)

The rest are still mine.

Not really into road bikes, but the OW01 was one bike I always wanted. Has only got 100bhp at the contact patch, but the chassis and gearbox are the the real deal. Does wicked backfires on the over-run as they suck air though the EXUP valve. Bitch on the road (hot, limited lock, hard on the wrists), so don't bother these days.

The TZ750 is a 76 model, last of the twinshock ones. has been a Wobbly bloody thing, very very fun motor. getting the handling sorted though. It was the donor bike for Stu Avant and the Nico Bakker framed TZ750 he used in the 76 Marlboro series. It was then sold to Trev Discombe and I heard recently that at some point Mike Pero rode it with the original frame (as like it is now). Ohlins rear shocks, Wobbly pipes, RT fork internals. 35 bux a lap at Puke to run....

The TZ350F (3rd one down, red white) is the full deal, with McIntosh frame (one of 6), plus boogie ign system, trick carb and fork internals, R Taylor Ohlins rear shock, RG500 gp bike clutch conversion, pukka 18 inch Dunlop race tyres and now has 2x period Brembo 05 capliers and 10 1/2 inch discs. It's been to Aussie 11 times to race at Phillip Island with me.

My brother's collection is broadly similar....though he doesn't have an OW01, but two TZ750's :killingme and a BSA Gold Star.

Gone for quality over quantity.

Ho...lee...shit.......

Stunning collection, farkin' well done.

[Oscar]

I have a modest collection of bikes, the Jap ones are a TT500H and a XT500H.
I'm looking for an SR500 to complete the set (I'm also looking for a Z1A and an RD400D, but that's another story).

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[SPman]

got one in my warehouse in japan if youre interestedYep PM me.

[DMack]

Heres some later models of classic Japs - GSXR1100, GSXR750 Ltd Edition (the real deal Yoshi), Excuse the F1, RZV500, RG500, RG250WW, RG250
Will be at show with the RG500 & RG250WW

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[nudemetalz]

very nice !! :)

[HenryDorsetCase]

I have a modest collection of bikes, the Jap ones are a TT500H and a XT500H.
I'm looking for an SR500 to complete the set (I'm also looking for a Z1A and an RD400D, but that's another story).

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wanna sell your R80G/S?

[Oscar]

wanna sell your R80G/S?

Nope, but I would consider buying another.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Nope, but I would consider buying another.

bit hard to find in any condition.... let alone a nice tidy one. Having said that being a gnome I would have to shorten the shock and forks to the point where I may as well buy an R80 or R65

[Crasherfromwayback]

Here's one I miss the most and was the most fun to ride. And here's one on it's way to me that I'm pretty excited about finding.

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[HenryDorsetCase]

[QUOTE=Crasherfromwayback;1130366394]Here's one I miss the most and was the most fun to ride. And here's one on it's way to me that I'm pretty excited about finding.



Are you buying stuff out of the US? Can you walk us (OK me) thru the process? I looked at it a while ago and just thought "Too freakin' hard". But trawling ebay there are utter gems. (and a lot of crap)

[Crasherfromwayback]

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Are you buying stuff out of the US? Can you walk us (OK me) thru the process? I looked at it a while ago and just thought "Too freakin' hard". But trawling ebay there are utter gems. (and a lot of crap)

Yeah. That's an ex Kent Howerton factory SR500 coming from the US of A. It's actually a piece of piss. If you're talking about a road bike, they pretty much all have titles. Without a title, the engine has to be pulled from the frame, which is a pain obviously. But even dirt bikes from certain states have titles. It's as easy as winning the auction, then contacting a good freighter to get 'em to you. I can hook you up with some good people for that. Much easier (read cheaper) if they're in California, as they need to leave from LA.

You pay 15% gst on the combined value of the bike plus the freight when it gets here. Frt is normally around 800.00 - 1500.00 NZ $'s a bike.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Yeah. That's an ex Kent Howerton factory SR500 coming from the US of A. It's actually a piece of piss. If you're talking about a road bike, they pretty much all have titles. Without a title, the engine has to be pulled from the frame, which is a pain obviously. But even dirt bikes from certain states have titles. It's as easy as winning the auction, then contacting a good freighter to get 'em to you. I can hook you up with some good people for that. Much easier (read cheaper) if they're in California, as they need to leave from LA.

You pay 15% gst on the combined value of the bike plus the freight when it gets here. Frt is normally around 800.00 - 1500.00 NZ $'s a bike.

what about MAF and biosecurity bullshit?

[Crasherfromwayback]

what about MAF and biosecurity bullshit?

No problemo.

[malcy25]

Yeah. That's an ex Kent Howerton factory SR500 coming from the US of A..

I don't do dirt, but some of that 80's works crosser stuff (and for some weird reason Kwaka) causes more than a lift in heart rate! Wooohoo, that's cool.

[Crasherfromwayback]

I don't do dirt, but some of that 80's works crosser stuff (and for some weird reason Kwaka) causes more than a lift in heart rate! Wooohoo, that's cool.

Yeah I'm pretty chuffed about it. Gotta dig things like magnesium hubs and hollow hand welded triple clamps etc eh! And alloy fuel tanks! Phwoar!!267316267315

[malcy25]

Yeah I'm pretty chuffed about it. Gotta dig things like magnesium hubs and hollow hand welded triple clamps etc eh! And alloy fuel tanks! Phwoar!!267316267315


sccccchwwwwwiiiiiiiiinnnnnnng!

[Crasherfromwayback]

sccccchwwwwwiiiiiiiiinnnnnnng!

lol. When I get my grubbly lil hands on it I'll clean it up and take some proper pics to share. I'll not restore that one, as I believe works bikes should be as they were last ridden.

Now...best you share some more pics of your gorgeous beasts!!??

[malcy25]

lol. When I get my grubbly lil hands on it I'll clean it up and take some proper pics to share. I'll not restore that one, as I believe works bikes should be as they were last ridden.

Now...best you share some more pics of your gorgeous beasts!!??

They all have alloy tanks (LOL!)

How's this for a pipe. 27 cuts to make it fit...Wobbly pipes.
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[Crasherfromwayback]

They all have alloy tanks (LOL!)

How's this for a pipe. 27 cuts to make it fit...Wobbly pipes.
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I'd love to own a TZ750, despite my only encounter with one leaving me with a badly broken collar bone!

[toycollector10]

There's going to be another Classic Japanese Motorcycle Show in Christchurch in March 2013. Click on Gallery/Shows and Events in the link below to have a look at what the 2010 show looked like. If you want to show your pre 1985 road bike, dirt bike or barn find make contact through the website.

http://www.cjmg.org.nz/


I'll open up a new thread on the show in early 2013 with a downloadable poster. Cheers, TC

[malcy25]

I'd love to own a TZ750, despite my only encounter with one leaving me with a badly broken collar bone!

Sidecar or bike?

[Crasherfromwayback]

Sidecar or bike?

Sidecar. Manfield. Garry Wright.

[malcy25]

Something to remind you of it....listen to this...

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PkEbVbB4vjU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Crasher

Is one we prepared earlier (about 2003). Is a bit of a mixuture, but engine was was pretty funky. A little TOO funky. rather than the reed valve TZ750 cylinders, we fitted 2x TZ350F/G piston port cylinders....Wobbly pipes, PVL ignition, speccy heads, and 38mm carbs!

Good contender for post classic land speed record attempts, but a bit hard work to ride around a circuit. 140hp at this point and a bit more later, but went from 50 to 100bhp between 70000 and 8000 rpm! A high side looking for a corner exit and in fact one time at band camp it did knock out the rider!

[ktm84mxc]

Sounds like the perfect side car engine, just imagine a grid full of those engines on song! ban the four bangers and bring back the 2 smokes with all the sounds and drama.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Something to remind you of it....listen to this...
Crasher



Last time I heard that, it was followed closly by the snapping of my collar bone!