Monday, July 23, 2012

Purchase

March 24th, 2012

Picked up a 40 year old rusted motorcycle from my friends dad who had it sitting in his side yard for years.  Payed him $75 and took this thing home with the title, and original riders handbook. Even came with the original tools inside the tool box.

Later found out it is a 1972 Kawasaki G4 TR-B model, 100cc 2 stroke, with 5 high and 5 low range gears.  Its a classic vintage dual sport motorcycle, I love it!  Its got 8,400 miles on the clock.

This is the picture my friend sent me when offering the motorcycle


Work began immediately without much of a goal in mind, other than take some parts off and clean years of rust off them.  This proved to be a long process.

Here's a few scans of the Rider's Handbook...

1972 Kawasaki G4 TR - Left Side

1972 Kawasaki G4 TR - Right Side

Here is a cool Vintage brochure I found online...


I should mention that I know pretty much NOTHING about motorcycles, so this should be a nice learning experience.
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  1. IanDecember 30, 2012 at 10:19 AM

    Beauty restoration, I've read it a few times through- I'm just starting my project. I hope to reference your journal throughout.
    If I have any questions, do you think I could ask you for some guidance?

    Thanks a lot,
    Ian

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    1. SebastianDecember 30, 2012 at 4:02 PM

      Thanks Ian, deffinitely let me know if you have any questions and ill do my best to help out. Good luck on the build

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  2. CarlosAugust 20, 2019 at 2:50 PM

    Do you have manuals of parts of footrest?. Thanks.

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