I wonder if you could tuck your right knee into that cutout, without setting your boot on fire on the exhaust.
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I think it’ll help prevent brake fade about as much as farting helps to drown out thunder.
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Doesn't the fairing and clipons just make it a 900ss?
I like it though
I like it though
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Nah, the SS and the Monster have totally different frames/swingarms.
I think the Monster frame is more similar to the 851/888 frames.
I think the Monster frame is more similar to the 851/888 frames.
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The frames are both made from bits of straight tube welded welded into triangular shapes. I think most people couldn't tell the difference - including me, and I own a MonsterKungFooBob wrote: ↑Sat Jan 23, 2021 7:04 pm Nah, the SS and the Monster have totally different frames/swingarms.
I think the Monster frame is more similar to the 851/888 frames.
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The rear suspension is very very different between the Monster and the SS. The SS is a driect link between the frame and swingarm, the Monster has a kind of rising rate linkage with a ride height adjuster.
The frames are very different if you look carefully. It's much much easier to change the belts on an SS.
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Older SS frame...
Monster 900...
The frames are very different if you look carefully. It's much much easier to change the belts on an SS.
Where's GP when you need him?
Older SS frame...
Monster 900...
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Early Monster frames are closer to 851 frames than 900AS frames, I think the Monster frame is the same as the ST2, dunno why they bothered though, still got a dumper truck engine coupled to a tractor gearbox.
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I like the look of that, I think it looks as good as a standard one, but different.
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First thing that came to mind was a trx 850 Yamaha when I saw this.
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A 1000cc north/south inline 3cyl. two stroke....with pressure oiling and a scavenge oil pump...in 1936!!!
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Personally not because I haven't got the skills to restore it.Scuffmark wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 10:27 amSkub wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:57 pm How about a lockdown restoration project? Would you hand over £3550 for this one?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1974-Kawasak ... 0009.m1982
Can't think why but I like that
Maybe it reminds me of the bikes I grew up looking at as a pre-teenager?.... Don't think I'd want to pay £3.5k for it though.
But...it looks 100% original and actually not in too bad nick so someone will buy that.
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A bit of money splashed on this old Z.
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Some old school schitt with a 'modern' twist.
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Skub wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:57 pm How about a lockdown restoration project? Would you hand over £3550 for this one?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1974-Kawasak ... 0009.m1982
Interesting and I keep looking at similar beasties. Fortunately, I'm a garage short of buying this!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Suzuki-GT250 ... Sw5Clf8b3J
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Mad prices!
I had one of the ram air earlier versions,plus a Hustler which was earlier again.
I had one of the ram air earlier versions,plus a Hustler which was earlier again.
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