Zed Thou Restomod

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Pretty tasty looking.
https://www.bikebound.com/2022/05/31/project-z/

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Yeah I can get that. Despite it not really being me, it looks appropriate
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Didn't we see this a few days ago ?
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Yorick wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:16 pm Didn't we see this a few days ago ?
Oops. :P
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LOOKS GOOD as anyone who's ridden the original set up would attest when it went into a death weave over 80.
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Re: Zed Thou Restomod

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Skub wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:21 pm
Yorick wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:16 pm Didn't we see this a few days ago ?
Oops. :P
Even Weeksy forgot and he posted the bugger :D
weeksy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:16 pm Yeah I can get that. Despite it not really being me, it looks appropriate
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Re: Zed Thou Restomod

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cant tell from the photo, but the swinging arms were always a but flimsy too. looks like the zzr1100 chain tensioner adjuster on the back of that one so perhaps that been resto-modded as well. looks all very zzr1100 swinging arm bits caliper position adjuster.....
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Re: Zed Thou Restomod

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rodbargee wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:28 pm cant tell from the photo, but the swinging arms were always a but flimsy too. looks like the zzr1100 chain tensioner adjuster on the back of that one so perhaps that been resto-modded as well. looks all very zzr1100 swinging arm bits caliper position adjuster.....
I put a Dresda swinger on mine back in the 70s and it actually made the handling worse!
There was a bag of tubes you could buy and weld them around the headstock to help stop frame flex,it helped a bit,but the whole geometry and that 19 inch front wheel would never be good. Laughable by today's standards.
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Re: Zed Thou Restomod

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I didnt see it first time around ...... i like the look of it although the purists will shudder at the USD forks and i assume a current Z900RS would be cheaper and run better ;)
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