New purchase

[Milts]

                                                       


  Bought this 1981 Z650 yesterday i know sweet FA about them Another one of my impulse buys 

  Not to everyone's taste i imagine, but next year will qualify to be MOT and tax exempt help keeping the running costs down.... i     hope!
Assuming i keep it that long 

[Sweaty]

I know nothing about them either, but that's a nice looking impulse buy to me Milts 

[steve porter]

Mine , back in the 70`s

[KiwiCol]

LOL, I had the same type of crash bars on my CB350 of the similar era.    Lovely looking tyres back then eh. 

[steve porter]

LOL, I had the same type of crash bars on my CB350 of the similar era.    Lovely looking tyres back then eh.

don`t forget the  ACE bars, a must have back in the day, and the tyres were good enough for me as I couldn`t ride for shit

[Irish in Oz]

Good machine, I ride a mates occasionally, personally I would redo it back to original colour mainly green or silver/blue, they are becoming quite collectable.

[steve porter]

I went from this, which was a Japan only 750, brought in second hand to the 650, the 650 was a better bike in every way.

[lawrie]

You state that not to everyone's taste, well it is to mine, love it.

[Mister Fishfinger]

When I was a spotty youth I got a weekend job in a Kawasaki dealership. Ideal for a bike-obsessed teenager. They were selling loads of Z650s at the time and they were exceptional bikes. They handled well (for the time) and were as fast as pretty much anything you could buy in the real world. Also relatively cheap and super reliable.

That one is a later model, maybe a C2, as the earlier ones had a drum brake at the back. This was the first bike in the UK with sintered disc pads so you had a chance of stopping when it rained.

Yours is in a particularly challenging colour scheme isn't it?

[Milts]

Thanks for the comments 

I must admit it was the colour that attracted me to it 
It does need a bit of cosmetic tlc here and there if i can be bothered.
Looking forward to getting out on it but need to sort a multi bike policy out first.

(I spent 45+ mins hanging on the phone to my Insurance company yesterday with the intention of amending my cover but ending up cancelling it all together through the sheer frustration of it all  )

 

[Mister Fishfinger]

Thanks for the comments 

I must admit it was the colour that attracted me to it 
It does need a bit of cosmetic tlc here and there if i can be bothered.
Looking forward to getting out on it but need to sort a multi bike policy out first.

(I spent 45+ mins hanging on the phone to my Insurance company yesterday with the intention of amending my cover but ending up cancelling it all together through the sheer frustration of it all  )

Weird thing, when I got my XS1100 going, I found that a multi-bike policy (one classic, one modern) was actually cheaper than a single bike policy that covered just the GSX. Same terms and conditions, more or less. I got that from Carole Nash in case you are interested. No need to phone them up you can do it all online.

[grog]

Never owned Z650, but know they were good. Bloke on the Coast had one ten years, sat out in street every night. Full on salt air. 500 metres from beach. Failed to start once, just battery. He did 60ks each work day so mustve clocked up a few. Not one other fault. Pretty good reco i think.

[GSX1400Convert]

Never owned Z650, but know they were good. Bloke on the Coast had one ten years, sat out in street every night. Full on salt air. 500 metres from beach. Failed to start once, just battery. He did 60ks each work day so mustve clocked up a few. Not one other fault. Pretty good reco i think.

I knew of 3 in my home town.
One, a mate of mine, went into a car drivers door at 110kph, less than 6,000Ks
Another drag raced, mid tens.
The other a show pony, was beautiful, the owner was a knob though.

[DP1400]

A nice buy - depending on how much you paid of course! Their value is rocketing and this one looks as though its been looked after. My mate bought a new blue one back in the day and has used it as a daily ride ever since! Despite the ridiculous mileage clocked to date, its still going strong, still standard (except for a replacement end can), and still turns heads. A truly great all-rounder from Kawasaki.

[Ginju]

I rode one some years back, liked it a lot.