Jarrett McKenzie, Bike builder
New to kawsakis in general, started working on a zx750p3, and the engineering kinda got me a bit more interested in it than the usual honda and suzuki sportbikes that i've been used to. found a ratty 2004 ex500 on market place with some minor imperfections i knew i could get going relatively easy, insert ~Shop Ninja~ first iteration is just getting this bike going fixing all the maintenance items and making sure it was going to be an enjoyable and cool commuter, insert bedliner fairings, 135 mains, cleaned slows, new brake pads, wheel bearings 120/90/17 shinko 705 with a tube in it, the ex500 holes were great for the tube stems. and a 130/90/17 shinko 705 out back. new throttle push and pull cables, heated grips as well, misordered for a customer.
yet to come....
seat to be recovered yet, and to build some sort of panniers so i can actually go get parts to include tires with it.
i've bought two front ends from dirtbikes and trying to decide and build out a triple tree with my 3 in 1 smitty to adapt either an 1988 rm250 front end or a 90s ktm front end i have yet to identify. and push the rear of it up to match.
About me, i've been a hobby builder of cars all my life, square body chevys starting me off, getting into my own tuner scene with k series hondas and a built crv, eventually buying a cbr600, scaring myself, buying a shadow 1100 and (hating) how slow it was i started to go back the other direction, found a honda magna cheap, and put 20k or so on that (over the time i had it) fell in love with old oil cooled gsxrs and tinkered with plenty of those, coming around to playing with vintage singles and building an xt500 and sr500 side by side. now i build hot rods and cafe bikes full time at specialty cycleworks, started out doing maintenance and restorations. if anyone is actually interested in it i'd love to show more!
yet to come....
seat to be recovered yet, and to build some sort of panniers so i can actually go get parts to include tires with it.
i've bought two front ends from dirtbikes and trying to decide and build out a triple tree with my 3 in 1 smitty to adapt either an 1988 rm250 front end or a 90s ktm front end i have yet to identify. and push the rear of it up to match.
About me, i've been a hobby builder of cars all my life, square body chevys starting me off, getting into my own tuner scene with k series hondas and a built crv, eventually buying a cbr600, scaring myself, buying a shadow 1100 and (hating) how slow it was i started to go back the other direction, found a honda magna cheap, and put 20k or so on that (over the time i had it) fell in love with old oil cooled gsxrs and tinkered with plenty of those, coming around to playing with vintage singles and building an xt500 and sr500 side by side. now i build hot rods and cafe bikes full time at specialty cycleworks, started out doing maintenance and restorations. if anyone is actually interested in it i'd love to show more!
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