KZ1000 oil cooler photos?
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From: chateau.murray on 5 Mar 2007 11:10 On 5 Mar, 07:05, Mike W. <outof...(a)emailbiz.com> wrote: > On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:58:58 GMT, Mike Freeman > > > I spent too long restoring this and falling in love to get anything else:) > And there's nothing else in the cop world that can stay with a KZP. And my > God, they're just *gorgeous* and while a cager will look right thru a HD or > a BMW to see the car on the other side, that particular fairing gets the > attention of lots of driver's wallet-protection reflex and that's a leg-up > in the visibility department nothing else can give me. > Heh. You talk my language. A close friend actually bought a Z1000P here in the UK - a few have been imported privately and by used bike dealers. His still bore the Providence, Rhode Island stickers on its flanks. Oh, and it had those weird tyres (OK, tires) that are designed to run flat after being shot out.... The sidewalls sort of extend over the edge of the rim. He replaced the radio mount with a custom made pillion saddle, but kept everything else, including the big police-issue speedometer. Only problem was that it was very undergeared for some reason, and redlined at something like 110mph. I've no idea if that was stock police issue gearing or what.
From: Bob Scott on 5 Mar 2007 12:58 Mike W. <outofthe(a)emailbiz.com> writes > >I spent too long restoring this and falling in love to get anything else:) >And there's nothing else in the cop world that can stay with a KZP. So what else is in the cop world over your way? Round these parts marked plod bikes are either Pan Europeans (Honda St1100) or BMs (usually K12 or R1100RTs). The unmarked traffic police bikes? There's a couple of Honda Blackbirds and a VFR8 locally, Strathclyde over to the west have a silver ST1300 (with onboard video) and Grampian plod have (or had last year anyway) a Ducati 999. I'm reliably informed that some of the English bike cops have been using the new Fazer 1000 and there's at least one R1 police bike out there. -- Bob Scott
From: Potage St. Germaine on 5 Mar 2007 15:20 On Mar 5, 8:10?am, chateau.mur...(a)btinternet.com, <chateau.mur...(a)btinternet.com> wrote: > Heh. You talk my language. A close friend actually bought a Z1000P > here in the UK - a few have been imported privately and by used bike > dealers. > > His still bore the Providence, Rhode Island stickers on its flanks. Rhode Island rings a bell. Some of my ancestors were governors and such in Providence and were controlling the future development of the colony and the state, until there was an outbreak of democracy, and a new constitution replaced the deal we made with Charles II in 1663. Add motorcycles to the thought, and I get visions of Jim Carey as a Rhode Island motorcycle patrolman with multiple personality disorder. Remember the movie where his wife runs off with a midget chauffeur and he has to raise three black kids but he never notices anything? > Oh, and it had those weird tyres (OK, tires) that are designed to run > flat after being shot out.... The sidewalls sort of extend over the > edge of the rim. The rims were called "clencher" rims and Goodyear made the special tires, as I recall. Shooting out a tire on a pursuing motorcycle is like a one in a hundred possibility, *if* the shooter had an assault rifle and took his time sighting on the tire instead of the officer. High speed pursuits on Southern California freeways are too dangerous, officers will break off pursuit if the speeds get up around 100 mph. There's a freeway overpass on Interstate 5 near Newhall, CA that is named after a motorcycle officer that was so dedicated to duty, he rode off the collapsed ramp and fell a couple of hundred feet to his death after the last big earthquake. And that's why there are no diesel motorcycles in California ;-)
From: Hank on 6 Mar 2007 07:23 Krusty's idea of using a junkyard fan to blow on the engine is the best I think, but, why re-invent the wheel?? Buy a LC bike similar to the KZ and use it for the bulk of your training. hth Hank "Mike W." <outofthe(a)emailbiz.com> wrote in message news:guaju2tbm2pissm4vmvkoi043j0eu09l7k(a)4ax.com... > > <Sorry if this is a repeat post, it does not appear to have posted after a > couple of weeks> > > I'm presently looking for a "practice bike" to use for both drilling and > teaching police motor handling skills. I want to put an oil cooler on this, > possibly with a thermostatically activated fan. These drills are hard on > the engine/clutch and almost all occur at low speeds. I know KZ/KZPs have > had oil coolers mounted on them over the years by their owners and am > trying to track down some photos to see what the installation details > looked like. My preference is the KZP but any KZ will be welcome. APBM is > always a good place to post these things, so I'll monitor there and here in > case anyone has one. Thanks. > > Mike > > > -- > Mike W. > 96 XR400 > 99 KZ1000P > 70 CT70 > 71 KG 100 (Hodaka-powered)
From: The Older Gentleman on 6 Mar 2007 09:19
Hank <ursa(a)nbnet.nb.ca> wrote: > Krusty's idea of using a junkyard fan to blow on the engine is the best I > think, but, why re-invent the wheel?? Buy a LC bike similar to the KZ and > use it for the bulk of your training. It's been suggested, but he points out (with some justification) that there's no lc bike remotely similar. Anyway, it's not a problem so don't lose sleeo ;-) |