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400 mile ride on the 1974 z1 900
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- Have no regrets...... You only live once.
74 Z1a 900 (Apart and making it better than ever)
77 Kz 650b (Threw a rod, going to sandwich in a 900 or 1000 motor)
76 Kz 400d
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Darien, Illinois
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Post edited by: partsman, at: 2007/05/31 14:12
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I drove the Alcan highway in february '93 and then back down in June of '94. Left from central S.C. on the way up and took about nine days with one day being wasted in Granite City, illinois. You must have really hit it hard to do that trip in eight days.
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I realize my butt is not ready for another 900 miler anytime soon, especially on a 650 model B seat. :lol:
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My brother and I rode from Cocoa Beach Florida to Anchorage Alaska in 8 days back in late 2006 stayed for a week and came back, round trip was 29 days and the final milage was almost 14,000 miles, 4 oil changes and 2 tires,( the al-can hwy is not tire friendly) I rode my 74 z1 that has a 1088 big bore kit, nitrous and an air shifter(left the bottle and shifter at home) and my brother rode his 72 cb 750 four, I had just got back from Iraq and wanted to see some friendly country. Man what a ride. <br><br>Post edited by: partsman, at: 2007/05/31 14:12
Sorry to get off topic, but many years ago there was a big bore dirt bike called, I think, a Yankee. A 500 single..so the editor of a bike mag got two of them and invited his 15 year old neighbor kid to ride the Alaska highway one summer. I always thought that guy would have been the coolest neighbor in the world to have, because I was about 15 at the time. It was a great story.
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When I drove in in summer, I remember very long stretches where you had to wait for a pilot car, sometimes like 20 miles or more with no pavement. I'd do it on the KLR, did the KZ hande that OK?
My wife's dad was at Elmendorf AFB in the early '60s. He and four buddies bought an old Packard when they ETS'd back to the lower 48 and drove with four spares tied to the top of the car. Went more than 2,000 miles with no pavement and by the time they got to Whitehorse, they had to buy new tires. The Alcan is easier now I guess. I made better time on it in winter than in summer. No Winnebagos to follow through British Columbia and no road construction.
My oldest son was born there and I have tentatively promised him we'll take a camping road trip up there someday.
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Zapp: "Kif, I'm feeling the Captain's Itch."
Kif: "I'll get the powder, sir."
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we did stop about every hour to streach our legs.
I will be ordering a new corbin seat to only be used for trips.
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