{"id":7,"date":"2012-01-02T09:21:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T09:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilson-mark.co.uk\/?p=7"},"modified":"2020-08-31T10:29:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T09:29:29","slug":"my-life-in-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wilson-mark.co.uk\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"My Life In Bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This website will be dedicated to all of the motorbikes I have ever owned and the many stories that go along with them.<\/p>\n<p>I started this website in Jan 2012 and will be adding to it whenever I get a spare minute.<\/p>\n<p>My biking life started in 1980 with a White KH250 purchased from Ada Deeming. I needed a bike to get to work as a trainee computer operator at GKN in Smethwick, so I went from public transport and walking to 100mph with less than an hour&#8217;s worth of training. I just slapped on the \u201cL\u201d plates and my biking life started.<\/p>\n<p>Since then I have had many bikes, the majority of which have been Kawasaki&#8217;s. I will look to add a page for each one of them and pictures, where I have them. The list goes something like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kawasaki KH250<\/li>\n<li>Kawasaki z500<\/li>\n<li>Honda CB900<\/li>\n<li>Kawasaki GPz750<\/li>\n<li>Honda 400\/4<\/li>\n<li>Honda CB750 K2<\/li>\n<li>Kawasaki GPz750 Turbo<\/li>\n<li>Kawasaki zzr100 x 3<\/li>\n<li>Kawasaki zrx1100<\/li>\n<li>Kawasaki zrx1200<\/li>\n<li>Kawasaki z1000<\/li>\n<li>Kawasaki zzr1400<\/li>\n<li>Kawasaki zzr1400 Performance Sport<\/li>\n<li>Kawasaki z900 (2018) in Orange\/Brown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My current ride is a zz1r1400 performance sport and the V reg z500 that I have restored.<\/p>\n<p>I also have a number of other restoration projects on the go at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>One of the young lads at work borrowed the bike as his was off the road for a couple of days&#8230; I think it made an impression&#8230;.See a video of the bike on the road&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Riding a 1980 Kawasaki Z500 - Four Cylinder Goodness!\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ESFaObJXrxY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So just how many bikes do I have \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Kawasaki z500 &#8212; See above<\/li>\n<li>Kawasaki z500; known as the black one&#8230;.In bits and awaiting restoration<\/li>\n<li>Kawasaki KH400 &#8212; On the workbench and coming along<\/li>\n<li>Kawasaki KH250 &#8212; In Boxes<\/li>\n<li>Yamaha DT 175 &#8212; Complete, needs to be registered and then MOTd<\/li>\n<li>GPz900r &#8212; In the lockup in the queue to get restored<\/li>\n<li>Honda CD175 &#8212; Complete bike needs a rebuild&#8230;.that&#8217;s for later<\/li>\n<li>Kawasaki Z1r &#8212; A real nail and an impulsive eBay purchase, going to do this as if it were 1980, Harris Exhaust, Koni Shocks (if I can get them) and lots of stainless steel and chrome \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>Oct 2016..Added a Hardtail Chopper project to the collection&#8230;..<\/li>\n<li>Summer 2017 zzr1400 Performance Sport<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>BSA Tracker; number 1&#8211; In Boxes <strong>(Sold)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>BSA Tracker; number two &#8212; in boxes <strong>(Sold)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Kawasaki z650, yet another impulsive buy from Oz and Deb at Zedparts..another one to restore&#8230;Update sold this to one of the young lads at work <strong>(Sold)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>GPz1100b1, I restored this as an Eddie Lawson Replica, see restoration pages for details&#8230; <strong>(Sold)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Had a 2018 z900 in Orange\/Brown&#8230;Didn&#8217;t get any use of it and sold it via Cradley Kawasaki<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This website will be dedicated to all of the motorbikes I have ever owned and the many stories that go along with them. 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