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Restoring a Kat

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steve murdoch said:
Looks like early Buffalo brakes on your beauty.
The KZ is very nice. I really like seeing the calipers on the engine side of the fork legs unlike so many of the kitted Z-1s.
Spokes rule!
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ding ding ding! Yep, a modified 72 GT750 zook front drum. It was lightened and machined down to fit between the forks of a 65 Norton Atlas, I further modified it to fit this tiny Ducati and put a 280mm front Hub from a YamahaTD factory racer on the Norton.

I remember the different caliper placement stuff from when I was researching the the restoration on the Kaw but now the details escape me... But it does look good.

The Kaw could have been someones dream bike when I got it because it was highly kitted with all the cool goodies of the day; 29mm smoothbores (which are still on the bike), braced swingarm, progressive shocks, Dyna ignition (also still there) kerker, pods, lester mags, I sold it all on ebay... The bike barely ran and had just about every problem possible when I took it home. I rode it about 40 miles home without knowing that the swingarm nut had come off and the spindle was slowly working itself out the side of the frame. I was on a busy freeway just hanging on while the bike violently swayed back and forth in my lane. My wife was following me in the car and she said she thought it was about to go down at any moment... On top of that almost every bearing in the frame and wheels were shot. What makes that so cool is how absolutely awesome the bike rides down the road now with everything fixed. It's like a showroom fresh bike from back in the 70's.
 
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