New to KZ's and my recent Z-1 I picked up for FREE

Just picked up a 1975 Z-1 for free that has been sitting in my grandpa's air plane hanger since 1985. Overall, it seems to be in pretty good shape; obviously dirty and what not. Found this forum and it seems like a great place to get lots of good info.

My plans for the bike are somewhat vague right now, but I plan to do a sort of bobber. Something simple for now just to get it going and so I can ride it. Anyways, here are a couple of picks of how it sits right now:

...a bobber...

Mcdroid wrote: ...a bobber...

is that not right? something wrong with that...

if u see the price of a restored original 75 z1 u may want to keep it original theres one on there now for like 12000$ us. ive seen the 73& 74s gettin even more !!!!!!prolly worth several grand in parts alone as theres several guys restoring them. check out ebay ....good score & happy motoring ace.

Hey it's your bike and $$, do whatever floats your boat. However, 1975 Z1B models are getting rare, that one looks like a candidate for a good cleanup or restoration. You could probably fund quite a bit of your bobber project selling the 75 cleaned up and running.

Jack wrote: Hey it's your bike and $$, do whatever floats your boat. However, 1975 Z1B models are getting rare, that one looks like a candidate for a good cleanup or restoration. You could probably fund quite a bit of your bobber project selling the 75 cleaned up and running.

This might be a better route to go seeing what you all have to say about it. Like I said, I don't know much about these at all. Originally, my plan was to pull the motor to use in my single seat, long travel dune buggy but I couldn't bring myself to take a complete running bike and scrap it just for the motor. My plan is to get it running and ride it a while, then sell it to fund my buggy project. The bobber idea was just something I was thinking to get it running and riding. Perhaps I should just do a good clean up and leave it be.

You could rebuild that bike to close to stock and have a real nice investment. Cutting it up or whatever, to make a bobber is lame IMO. Check Craigslist, there's 100's of "bobber projects".

Don't throw anything away or cut it or grind anything. Even the old hardware is worth some money. I did mine on a shoestring budget, only spent maybe $3000.

If you do chop it up, can I buy a coupla parts?

Glad too hear your going too clean it up. Leave it on the trailor clean it and then drive Pa turnpike too old exit 21 Drive 6 miles too Ephrata pa and drop it off at my place

put a headlight in that thing already!!!!!! haha!

springer350 wrote: My plans for the bike are somewhat vague right now, but I plan to do a sort of bobber.

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

Restore the bike find out history of bike might be more personal. thats like finding a GTO in the muscle car world.We dream of finds like that. Z1 over buggy any day.