Rude lesson in painting primer on fuel tanks

While filling dings and dents in the gas tank, I applied a few guide coats (primer applied with the intent of sanding all of it all to surface level, which will leave any high or low spots easy to identify) and was relocating the tank on the painting table, at which point the worn out [...]

Plastic welding on the KZ400

Progress continues on the KZ400 project. Today’s work was focused around using my new plastic welder to fill in holes on the side panel.

The plastic welder came with a number of welding sticks, to use with a variety of plastics. After quite a bit of melting, and trying the PVC, ABS and PP welding [...]

WOW! This is one really sweet KZ400 cafe!

Speachless.  I know I wont’ hit this high-water mark with my first try.  I’m OK with that, but getting this sort of result in the furture would be fantastic!   This is VERY impressive work!!

Source:  Kawasaki Twin Owners Forum

A completed shot of the bike.  Impressive, to think it started like  THIS:

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KZ400 – some motorbike influances

I’ve been looking at a number of vintage bikes, and some cafe racer bikers. Going to save these for reference, and what about each one I really like. It will be interesting to come back to these articles once I finally finish the bike and see what I was thinking.

Bike 1 – Honda twin [...]

KZ400 closer to running again

It was a dark and stormy night…..

The amazing KZ400

Somewhere it was, but not here. It was rather warm, and the coolness of my subterranean shop was a blessing. It turned out that I would spend the better part of a weekend in there, wrestling the carburetors into the very tight, very new, [...]