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I've spent the last few days refurbishing the front brake caliper on my 1978 Kawasaki Z650. It was binding and causing drag on the front ...

Welcome to the next post in a seemingly endless series where I show all the things I'm doing to try to get my 1978 Kawasaki Z650B1 back o...

In my ongoing project to get my old 1978 Kawasaki Z650 properly back on the road, it is definitely a case of "three steps forward, t...

It feels like this project to get my 1978 Kawasaki Z650 back on the road has been going on forever ! In the process, I've discovered an i...

I've had a problem with my Z650 recently; it seemed to only be running on 3 of the 4 cylinders. Here's the story so far - sorry for the l...

Just over a year ago, I fitted new inlet rubbers to my Kawasaki Z650. They were pattern ones, but bought from a reputable dealer and supp...

What started as a project to keep me busy during the winter while it was too cold to work on the bike has taken on a life of it's own. It...

It's been ages since I last posted an update on my Kawasaki Z650 restoration. With rain every day since Christmas, sometimes all day and ...

After my weekend post, where I finally made progress after what felt like being stuck for so long, I did a little more work this evening ...

Last time I posted on this project, it had reached a bit of a blockage. One or more of the pistons was stuck because the piston rings had...

I can't believe it's been nearly a month since I last posted on this rebuild. A combination of having a short holiday, being pretty overw...

Classic Bike Trip I love my old classic bikes and cars, when I saw a planned trip, on Facebook, by the BMW club of Johannesburg, I decid...

Welcome to the next part of my Kawasaki Z650 engine refurbishment series. This is the one where it all goes wrong 😁 The objective for th...

Welcome to the next part of the saga ! My goal for this weekend was to clean the spare engine along the major joints of the cam cover, he...

Classic Bikes and Hotdogs. We have a small group of friends, who all ride some old classic BMW motor cycles. We decided to come together...

Just a little progress update today - after discovering a good candidate yesterday for why the bike isn't running well (a faulty ignition...

It was the first Saturday for a while where we had decent weather (not that common at this time of the year here in the UK !) and I didn'...

Yes, it's the next episode in my slow and steady refurbishment of one of my spare Z650 engines ! In the last one, Z650 Engine Rebuild Win...

Welcome to the next instalment of my refurbishment of a spare engine for the Z650 I've been gradually restoring ! In yesterday's post, I ...

This is part 5 of the engine part of my Z650 restoration - this time I'm digging a bit further into the innards of spare engine number 2....

This is part 4 of the engine part of my Z650 restoration - you can find part 3 at Z650 Engine Rebuild Winter Project - #3: Engine 2 Onto ...

This is part three of the ongoing saga of working on my old Z650 (my expectation of a couple of weeks just to get the bike back on the ro...

I bought myself a Christmas present ! It took a few days before I could assemble it, because the weather has been just constant rain, no...

I've learned the hard way that human skin is not indestructible. You've probably seen from my previous posts how I have been working thro...

Following on from my first post in this series, Z650 Engine Rebuild Winter Project - #1: Initial Assessment I thought I'd do a little upd...

I've been working on restoring my old Z650, which has turned into a much bigger project than I originally expected. But with no indoor wo...

It's time for the next instalment in the saga ! I actually feel like slow progress is (finally) being made. In the last post, I spoke abo...

The ongoing saga of the effort to get my old Kawasaki back on the road.... Last time, I discovered that the reason I'd had to rebuild the...

It has been far, far too long since I updated this series ! The project hit the kind of problem that took a while to solve, but it's sta...

Honda CBX1000 engine Collection part 2 - V8 Fast Lane Cafe, Thailand Part 1 can be viewed here. In the previous installment a few s...