KZ750 Twin

[winfield]

I'm not sure why anybody would be interested in a KZ750 Twin, especially for the asking price, but if that really trips your fancy, there's a particularly fine example of one in Indiana. (Not Mine)

http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/mcy/4430782942.html

Here's the write-up:

1978 Kawasaki KZ750 B3 twin Cylinder 750cc in GREAT condition. Bike was purchased from the original owner and I still have the original title from 1978. The KZ750 is now titled in my name, current Indiana. I have completed the following work on this Kawasaki:
1. New speedo and tach cable
2. Fork rebuilt-new seals/new dust boots, Bell Ray 10wt oil.
3. New head gasket, no leak
4. New chrome MAC 2-1 chrome exhaust
5. New Interstate Battery
6. New Petcock
7. Carbs rebuilt-New brass floats, new bowl gasket, new main 125, new pilot 45, new float valve. Carbs ultrasonic cleaned and every port blown through.
8. New lowers bars than the stock bars.
9. Carb intakes removed and sealed to manifold, no airleaks.
Bike starts easy, runs smooth, pulls hard and stops great. Great classic thumper!! $2500 obo call/text Keith (317) ??? ????

[JAG]

Hate the bike but so love the motor. Always wanted to put one in an old school rigid rat hardtail frame. Minimalist. No chrome, polished ally or paint. Just brushed bare metal....

Lumps are as rare as rocking horse sh1t over here

[850 Combat]

I worked with a woman who had one. It could outrun my BSA 650, barely. Big, ugly, and slow. I'm not sure what they were for. Funerals and parades maybe?

[Nessism]

Big heavy lump of an engine. What's the durability? Bet it's at least double that of your typical British twin.

[JAG]

Big heavy lump of an engine. What's the durability? Bet it's at least double that of your typical British twin.

Certainly a better twin motor of its era than anything Brit. It didn't leak oil from new for a start.

I just remember a mate had one in the 80's. Loved the torque it produced. Rest of the bike...

[850 Combat]

Big heavy lump of an engine. What's the durability? Bet it's at least double that of your typical British twin.

No doubt. But it wasn't much fun, and it should have been much faster. I wasn't comparing it directly to the BSA, and you won't hear me say much good about the BSA A65 twins anyway. I was just trying to illustrate how appallingly slow it was.

[GS/GR PAUL]

The GR650 was a better package.

[daturat100r]

Good sidecar tug,here in auckland the local m/cycle wreckers used one fitted with a float for pickup and delivery of other bikes was, around for decades