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    I picked up my new motorcycle last Friday, a 2010 Kawasaki Z1000. In all likelihood I will be selling the Falcon to a friend. With all I have going on there's no room in the stable for two. The end of an era I suppose...
    2010 Kawasaki Z1000
    1979 SF: Millennium Falcon, until this Saturday

  • #2
    where's the pictures?
    "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein

    "Illegitimi non carborundum"-Joseph W. "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell



    1980 LG
    1981 LH

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    • #3
      Originally posted by dpotter58 View Post
      where's the pictures?
      No kidding! You drop a statement like that, and no pictures!!??
      1980 XS850SG - Sold
      1981 XS1100LH Midnight Special (Sold) - purchased 9/29/08
      Fully Vetterized and Dynojet Kit added, Heated Grips, Truck-Lite LED headlight, Accel Coils, Irridium plugs, TKAT Fork Brace, XS850LH Final Drive & Black SS Brake lines from Chacal.
      Here's my web page devoted to my bike! XS/XJ User's Manuals there, and the XJ1100 Service Manual and both XS1100 Service manuals (free download!).

      Whether you think you can, or you think you cannot - You're right.
      -H. Ford

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      • #4
        I dont have a photobucket/picasa etc. account. I cant pilfer images off Kawasaki's site, so here's the link: http://www.kawasaki.com/FusePlayerAp...mediaID=109091
        2010 Kawasaki Z1000
        1979 SF: Millennium Falcon, until this Saturday

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        • #5
          When

          Did you have a wreck? Better get your head checked. You traded an XS1100 for that????
          '81 1100 MNS - "Midnight XSpress"
          Original except:
          120 mains outer cylinders - 125 mains inner cylinders - Ceramic headers - Powder coated pipes, covers calipers, and MC's
          4 pods - Air box gutted--E3 Plugs - High Back seat - Grooved out swing arm - SS brake lines
          Fork brace - 160 speedo - Auto CCT
          All gold paint and chrome replaced with GOLD plate

          "STUPID is Forever" Ron White.
          Contact me by PM -I don't deal with stupid anymore.

          Big John

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          • #6
            be sure and point the way

            for your friend to join here - and The Falcon can live on....


            John
            John is in an anonymous city with an Alamo (N29.519227,W-98.678980)

            Go ahead, click on the bikes - you know you want to...the electrons are ready.
            '81 XS1100H - "Enterprise"
            Bob Jones Custom Navy bike: Tkat brace, EBC floating rotors & SS lines, ROX pivot risers, Geezer rectifier, new 3H3 engine

            "Not all treasure is silver and gold"

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            • #7
              Sorry,

              but I hear a splat coming.
              '81 1100 MNS - "Midnight XSpress"
              Original except:
              120 mains outer cylinders - 125 mains inner cylinders - Ceramic headers - Powder coated pipes, covers calipers, and MC's
              4 pods - Air box gutted--E3 Plugs - High Back seat - Grooved out swing arm - SS brake lines
              Fork brace - 160 speedo - Auto CCT
              All gold paint and chrome replaced with GOLD plate

              "STUPID is Forever" Ron White.
              Contact me by PM -I don't deal with stupid anymore.

              Big John

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              • #8
                Hmmm, better handling, better power, better brakes, 30 years newer...I think there might be something to that trade. I love the XS, but if all things were free...
                Healthy is merely the slowest rate at which you can die

                Some people will tell you that slow is good - and it may be, on some days - but I am here to tell you that fast is better. I’ve always believed this, in spite of the trouble it’s caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba….Hunter S. Thompson

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                • #9
                  Yeah, and not everybody is cut out to keep a 'vintage' machine running...

                  '78E original owner
                  Fast, Cheap, Reliable... Pick any two

                  '78E original owner - resto project
                  '78E ???? owner - Modder project FJ forks, 4-piston calipers F/R, 160/80-16 rear tire
                  '82 XJ rebuild project
                  '80SG restified, red SOLD
                  '79F parts...
                  '81H more parts...

                  Other current bikes:
                  '93 XL1200 Anniversary Sportster 85RWHP
                  '86 XL883/1200 Chopper
                  '82 XL1000 w/1450cc Buell, Baker 6-speed, in-progress project
                  Cage: '13 Mustang GT/CS with a few 'custom' touches
                  Yep, can't leave nuthin' alone...

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