Calling all bike brothers 98Z and Robo too

[washguy]

Brothers...saw this just now in the neighborhood classifieds...is there any deals to be had in this?

 

 

Four Motorcycles for sale (prices are negotiable). Also selling contents of garage full of parts, tools and equipment! Yamaha Royale, navy blue touring bike with 46,187 miles. Has issue with bottom of motor - comes with parts for repair. Kawasaki ZG1000 1986 Gray Consors. Standard: 4-Cylinders, 4-Stroke, 1000cc with 33,690 miles. Runs great – has slight fan noise. Asking $1,500 Kawasaki Vulcan 1985 Maroon VN700. KZ550-F2 Ltd (Shaft) with 15,391 miles. Motor needs replacement – new motor IS included (just needs to be installed). Asking $1,2000 1996 Kawasaki KZ 1000 Police Edition Motorcycle White Model Code: KAW0521000.
Runs, but needs electrical systems re-wired.Asking $1,400 Would love to show these to you or someone you know.

Do I need any of these? now remember that I wrecked an H2 750 bringing it home from the dealership and broke my shoulder real bad,but im healed kinda sorta.... which one do I want or not?   :) Wash

 

     

[Robocop1051]

I see a lot of wrench time in your future.

[washguy]

Check out the police cruiser Robo ...dont need no electrical system...hot wire it   here's the pics of all the bikes cept the rice burner  :) Wash

 

 

vulcan

 

 

cruiser

 

Edited June 10, 2015 by washguy

[98Z5V]

 

Brothers...saw this just now in the neighborhood classifieds...is there any deals to be had in this?

 

 

Four Motorcycles for sale (prices are negotiable). Also selling contents of garage full of parts, tools and equipment! Yamaha Royale, navy blue touring bike with 46,187 miles. Has issue with bottom of motor - comes with parts for repair. Kawasaki ZG1000 1986 Gray Consors. Standard: 4-Cylinders, 4-Stroke, 1000cc with 33,690 miles. Runs great – has slight fan noise. Asking $1,500 Kawasaki Vulcan 1985 Maroon VN700. KZ550-F2 Ltd (Shaft) with 15,391 miles. Motor needs replacement – new motor IS included (just needs to be installed). Asking $1,2000 1996 Kawasaki KZ 1000 Police Edition Motorcycle White Model Code: KAW0521000.

Runs, but needs electrical systems re-wired.Asking $1,400 Would love to show these to you or someone you know.

Do I need any of these? now remember that I wrecked an H2 750 bringing it home from the dealership and broke my shoulder real bad,but im healed kinda sorta.... which one do I want or not?   :) Wash

 

 

Cut away on the whole pile, brother, unless the tools are worth more, or you like parting things out.

 

*The Yamaha is a V4 cruiser, 1300.  If it's got bottom end problems, you're looking at a crank and 4 conrods.  Fucking nightmare.

*The ZG1000 Concours wasn't really a good bike.  There's still a few out there, but people aren't really looking for parts to restore those things.  Drive it 'til it dies, dump it for another bike.  You won't get much from parts.

*1985 Vulcan 700 - you can't even find parts for it.  Kawi discontinued most of the parts supply for that bike several years ago.

*KZ550-F2 Limited - another turd from Kawi in the mid 80s.  Cut away. Even with a new engine, you'd have more into labor in putting the new engine in, than the thing is worth. 

*1996 KZ1000 Police bike - these things have been trashed through the years.  I work on them often - mostly from people that are into the Patriot Guard riders - they need to get these bikle back up to full-police certification in order to be an escort for the organization.  I've seen dudes dump TONS of money into these things, just because they got them cheap, and they support a cause.  Supporting the cause is noble as fuk, and I admire the hell out of that, but they should dump more money on more bike, instead of looking to get into it with a cheap bike - that costs them a ton.

 

Anyway, my $0.02.   <thumbsup>

 

EDIT - i no-$hit had a KZ1000 Police bike in the shop last month...  nightmare with wiring, with all the cop-wiring in it.  I just had to make the damn turn signals work, and it cost the guy a small middle-eastern fortune.

Edited June 10, 2015 by 98Z5V

[washguy]

Thanks brothers...got a lil woodie...then my shoulder started to relive the wreck, and then I got sage advice from you...walkin away

:) Wash

[98Z5V]

Don't get me wrong - you can more than double your money, with you in at $1400, on that deal.  But you'll be parting stuff to make the money.  The tools are a bonus.

 

Part that CHiPs bike, and that'll pay for the pile.  <lmao>

Edited June 10, 2015 by 98Z5V

[planeflyer21]

Thanks brothers...got a lil woodie...then my shoulder started to relive the wreck, and then I got sage advice from you...walkin away

:) Wash

 

Those H2 750s...2-strokes from hell...were no joke.  Three 250cc cylinders conspiring to make you think you had full control.

 

Tom should get one of those engines, drop it into his Honda 500 for a Frankenreaper.

[Robocop1051]

The KZ1000 is a great bike. I rode one once, when I first started motors (just to see what it was like).

All police bikes are beat to shit. We ride clutch half in/out, we constantly drop them, we are always going into red rpm's. The only bonus is that you know it's getting a regular service.

Another bad thing about police motorcycles. Until Honda jumped into the game, all the bikes were made in three different shops. First the dealer built the bike... then they send it to amother shop to put in the emergency lights... then they send it to another shop to put in three radio equipment.... God save you if you're having any additional equipment (RADAR?) put in.... this gives about 12 miles of wiring inside the bike, that no one can ever decipher, and everyone blames any electrical problem on the "other guys".

Honda and BMW now make complete bikes in shop (BMW still outsources the radio).

[98Z5V]

^^^  On that note, I think Kawi is single-sourcing the whole upgrade, too.  Kawi makes the bike (Concours), and one other company handles the cop-transformation.