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I actually thought 'Goblin' or 'Green Goblin' would be appropriate since the colors look a lot like the bad guy from spider man


the colors were actually chosen for a couple of reasons: When the frame still looked like a suzuki katana it had purple on the plastics and the wheels. My oldest always called it 'the purple vroom vroom'. So, naturally I had to make some part of it purple. The black and white stripes look a little like the first street bike I ever owned, a purple 1973 Honda CB350 twin. The green, of course, is a tribute to the kawasaki engine.

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ride hard, ride long, ride safe!
Jason
72 h2 in a 93 Katana
03 cbr600rr
80 kz750 ltd
94 pw50

Progress pic: I got the swing arm and forks mounted and the wiring harness laid in



Here's a view from the top



I also noticed that I had a lot of sand on the gage face of my tach so I tore the gages apart. I decided to clean everything up and learned a very important lesson: the numbers on your odometer and trip-meter wheels do not like carb cleaner! Note the .1 mile wheel on the odometer....

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ride hard, ride long, ride safe!
Jason
72 h2 in a 93 Katana
03 cbr600rr
80 kz750 ltd
94 pw50

Yeah, the black letters on a white dial are always a problem, even ordinary detergent will remove the black! (AMHIK!!)

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"One day, your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching." : anon.

After many attempts I finally got my gages back together and painted. Repainting the numbers was challenging. It turned out okay though

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ride hard, ride long, ride safe!
Jason
72 h2 in a 93 Katana
03 cbr600rr
80 kz750 ltd
94 pw50

More progress pics. I wet-sanded and polished some of the body panels and mounted them. Things are really starting to come tognether

_________________
ride hard, ride long, ride safe!
Jason
72 h2 in a 93 Katana
03 cbr600rr
80 kz750 ltd
94 pw50

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"One day, your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching." : anon.

Final panels are buffed and mounted. License plate bracket is mounted too. I painted my switch gear but I ran out of time to grab pics. I'm waiting on some parts for my rear suspension to get zinc plated, that's why I haven't put the tire or the shock spring back on, just in case anyone was wondering

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ride hard, ride long, ride safe!
Jason
72 h2 in a 93 Katana
03 cbr600rr
80 kz750 ltd
94 pw50

That's certainly not my definition of 'okay', but there you go...

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'66 T20
'72 H2
'74 GT750L
'76 RE5A
'80 GS1000ST
'82 GSX1100SZ
'82 GSX1100SXZ
'86 RG500G
'09 DR650SE
'10 GSX1300R

This one is a "sleeper"...... Stay tuned.....

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"One day, your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching." : anon.

They didn't come out as clean as I had hoped... cutting those little numbers out 5 times over took it's toll on my patience! I also didn't notice the super glue holding the green and amber lights in place had decided to smear until after I crimped the gages back together and painted them Oh well, just leaves something to look forward to fixing in the future

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ride hard, ride long, ride safe!
Jason
72 h2 in a 93 Katana
03 cbr600rr
80 kz750 ltd
94 pw50