February 2008 Bike Of The Month!

February 2008 Bike Of The Month http://www.twowheelforum.com/photopost/direct_data/520/BOTMLogo.jpg This months installment of the TwoWheelForum/Shift Racing Bike Of The Month features a 1980 Kawasaki KZ1000LTD owned by: dnyce http://www.twowheelforum.com/photopost/direct_data/551/medium/sweet.jpg http://www.twowheelforum.com/photopost/direct_data/551/medium/dnyce0071.jpg http://www.twowheelforum.com/photopost/direct_data/551/smoke.JPG Here are a few details: honda cbr f4i rear wheel m.r.e. offset sprocket chris products rear sprocket r.c. engineering 4-1 pipe 6-8" over double club swingarm candy apple red paint 29 smoothbore mikuni carbs mre air shifter seat cut down and re-done custom taillight/license plate mount chain guard rigid swingarm converted to shock mount all work done by me except paint (dad) For being selected as Bike Of the Month, this month's winner receives a FREE T-Shirt courtesy of Shift Racing (http://www.shiftracing.com/).

Don't know why this was locked, but it's open now. Congrats Dnyce.

congrats:dthumb::dthumb:

nice chg up.

Congrats... again :lol: :cheers:

Congrats Dnyce!!! :cheers:

that's a bad ass bike! I remember the build thread on that... lots of work! defiantly well deserved!

I wanna see it do a stoppie. :D Nice ride.

I've said my congrats in another thread. But.... :cheers:

I'm lovin the old school love!!!

Nice. Glad to see a classic bike being ridden. Especially ridden fast. Is the steering damper by Stortz? I was bidding on a set of those smoothbores for my Suzuki, but stopped when the price went over $100. They sold for a lot more.

I just noticed that thing has a kick start... FlUCK THAT! That's gotta be WAY TOO MUCH WORK!!!!

:cheers:

I just noticed that thing has a kick start... FlUCK THAT! That's gotta be WAY TOO MUCH WORK!!!! Wimp. My 1979 Suzuki was the first bike I bought that didn't have a kickstart. All the two-stroke street bikes I owned before that had kickstarts and starters. They came in pretty handy with the weak batteries, alternators, and regulator/rectifiers they had.

Wimp. My 1979 Suzuki was the first bike I bought that didn't have a kickstart. All the two-stroke street bikes I owned before that had kickstarts and starters. They came in pretty handy with the weak batteries, alternators, and regulator/rectifiers they had. Yup, I am a push the button and make it go whore. :D

Congrats Dnyce... always liked that bike :cheers: I was thinking.... might it help you when launching to lie down with your chest on the tank and use the passenger foot pegs instead? It would keep the wheel down... You'd just need a shifter rod extension or modified 'rear'set of some sort. I know the real drag bikes use a hand-controlled unit for shifting I think...

thanks again, worked hard and on a budget:cheers: and 1980 was the last year of kick start and electric start:dthumb: and i got a air shifter ceo, works great, was the first mod i made. look at the link, my face is in the tach lol pic (http://rich56k.smugmug.com/gallery/1935126_HgJFw#98059780) pic is old, but you get the idea. my key is bent, and my shield is scratched from hittin the key when the wheel comes back down lol. im gona get rid of the ignition and just use the kill switch tether as a "key" this ones cool too wheel up (http://rich56k.smugmug.com/gallery/1935126_HgJFw#P-2-20) oh yea, i got the dampner at schnitz, like 95bucks for the adj. dampner and fork bracket

this ones cool too wheel up (http://rich56k.smugmug.com/gallery/1935126_HgJFw#P-2-20) :baha: looks like your being OWNED by that 250!

i know lol, bracket racing is a bitch-she had 5 second headstart i think....and i ran her ass down!

i know lol, bracket racing is a bitch-she had 5 second headstart i think....and i ran her ass down! :lol: 5 seconds damn... that's a CHIT load!

and it felt way longer when your sittin there at 7k rpm :yikes:

great job. i love seeing the old bikes with the new work!

Different which is sweet

:cheers: thx gotta be different:dthumb: