82 kz1000 ground up build

I love the paint and wheel colour combo - "Dark" brown could work 

 

Please, please... PLEASE don't put a brown seat on it!        

slayer61 wrote:

Please, please... PLEASE don't put a brown seat on it!    

   

 don't "sit on the fence" Slayer ! If you have an opinion "speak up" 

I would love to see a gray coloured seat cover complimented with your bike color contrast diamont stitching.like this one..

 

slayer61 wrote:

Please, please... PLEASE don't put a brown seat on it!    

   

Why not, it would hide close call accident. 

 

haha, didnt realize seat color was so polarizing!
i'm sold on brown though, but i have the stock seat with black cover i can throw on for a photo op.
heres the seat i was thinking of....


 

Brown seats draw almost as many opposing views as a good "oil" debate   I think that is dark enough to work with the colour scheme(I went with black on my build as I still haven't decided what the end paint scheme will be  ) 

haha it would seem that way....
i've had really good experience with a shop in Vietnam that makes reproduction seats, complete for around $250 shipped.  

Minor updates:
ordered a few electrical parts; local shop welding up a bracket for the right side cover grommet; had to take apart the rear end as the rear caliper mount is bent, cheap fix; ordered clutch and throttle cables.

To do:
fuel system, exhaust (muffler purchase and fitment), gauge, headlight and mounts, quickshifter and dyno tuning.

Have you come up with a resolution to the cross tube you removed from the frame ? (if not the resultant flex may break the engine mounts off of the motor)

once i have the exhaust in place i'm going to see what i can do about putting the same tube back in or a smaller diameter solid shaft and weld it in place.

jowek70 wrote:

once i have the exhaust in place i'm going to see what i can do about putting the same tube back in or a smaller diameter solid shaft and weld it in place.

Could you put it back a little higher just above the headers ?