USA

Hi Dread, I came across your site from the link that was posted on the American KZ web site...I've been looking at it since 7 this morning (it's now 1:30 in the afternoon), what a great site.
Here's some pictures of mine and a brief history of me and the bike. My back ground is very similar to yours, growing up in Ripon, N Yorkshire i bought my first bike at 15, a Honda SS50...blew it up, fixed it, sold it, bought a fizzy then blew that up and fixed it several times. I then proceeded to go through a GT250 ram air, 2 X7's (these were my favourite, tuned the shite out of them) and a Z650 before moving to the States in 1990.

Since living here I acquired an XS650 twin which i ran for awhile before selling and buying an XS1100. That ba$tard sold it to me with a blown main seal all nicely sealed up with silicone, which lasted long enough for me not to notice, then when i decided to split the cases (parts all over a friends basement) she moved, and myself and another friend who was rebuilding his KZ13 in the same basement had to vacate asap. Having nowhere to rebuild, the bike sat outside under a tarp slowly loosing parts. It was while working in this basement that I started to realize that the 1300 was what i really wanted. My friend unfortunately collided with another bike going through an amber light, needless to say both bikes were trashed ( the pillion on the other bike seriously), anyway to cut a long story short, 13 bike less years later I found myself thinking about getting a bike again.

I started looking for the 13 A4 (I like the tank shape) and got lucky after a month, finding this one in Riverside, LA, drove sixteen hours there and back, paid the guy $2,500.00 (a steal, I think) and am now the very proud owner. The guy that sold it to me said he was the second owner and the first owner had six, six cylinder bikes...3 CBX's (cough, cough) and 3 KZ's mine being the best one. The bike had 1400 miles on it when I got it, now 1700...I've put the ZX1100 cam chain tensioner in it, new fork seals and springs, I have the coils ready to go and a few other parts I'd like to swap out.

That's brings me up to date, Which is where you come in, having looked all over your site I noticed a lot of bikes with the Eddie Lawson nose fairing (including yours, I believe), where do you guys get them, or are they from another model? and what about the belly pan, I like the look of a street fighter and would like to go that direction, I think! Anyway, if you could let me know i would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Steve
PS: I will send more pictures in the spring as the work progresses.

In answer to your question the fairing is a Z1000 Eddie Lawson and the belly pan I used was a FJR1200 cut down the middle then widened to fit around our wider engine.

Turnsignals salvaged from a old Yamaha Seca 750 (Not a lot of square ones out there.).

John Gotch a regular n the mesage board has sent these two in from Greenwich Ct.

The three pictures above are from San Diego the bike is called the beast and boasts the following.

These pics are of Mike Mundell, one of the guys in the "Parker Gang". He lives over in Iowa, (600 miles East of here), and is quite an outdoorsman, (Hunting, Fishing, Hiking, Trail-Riding). He's a "Loner", and usually tents out. He's a diesel mechanic, and he made that trailer himself. He handles that Voyager like a dirt bike. Damn good rider! I've often thought about doin' a trailer like that myself, for the little Hodaka, but it would be a real project, with the new configuration of the Voyager.