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Information: I purchased this bike while in Okinawa, Japan in 1996 and rode it almost every day until 1999. It is an original Japanese bike, had a Japanese title and factory color was the purple/blue not seen in the States. In 2001, I finally got it registered as a "Gray Market" vehicle since this bike never went through Customs inspections. Which means I went through an awful lot of forms and documentation to get it legally registered with a US title since I imported it myself...
This past summer (2003), I completed dissasembled the bike and did the following work:
- crack in frame cut out and repaired/rewelded
- frame sandblasted and powdercoated gray
- rims sandblasted and powdercoated silver-white
- dent removed from tank and new acrylic liner coating
- tank, side panels, and fenders painted black
- new Pirelli Dragon Evo tires (120 on front, 180 on back)
- engine wire brushed and polished (I wore out three wire wheels and one electric drill!)
- new bearings and seals front and rear
- new sprocket-to-rear hub bushing
- new speedometer gear set in front hub
- rebuilt front mastercylinder
- cleaned both front and the rear calipers
- recovered the seat
- new top covers on all four carbs
- entirely rebuilt everything within the carbs (all new parts including the $97 (US) diaphrams in each)
- new cables and tubing and filters
- new Kerker 4-into-1 black headpipe and aluminum can exhaust (searched for over two weeks everyday to locate a system in the US - bikebandit.com had a couple)
- new engine stickers
- cleaned everything by hand
I still want to rebuild the front forks and get new rear shocks and do a couple of other little things like new gauges and such. But, for the moment I am pretty happy with it.
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