The end

At last I am on the final furlong of what has been a substantial build for me. I have to say that I have enjoyed many parts of the build, though not others!

Heavily customised bikes aren’t for me, but I do rather enjoy the challenge of building them. I love designing and making custom parts. What I am less keen on is sorting out other people’s screw ups! I really hate telling the owners of classic bikes that a previous person/owner has done bad things to their bike and it will cost a lot of money to put right. And so it proved with this bike on a few occasions.

So, the mighty Mikuni 34mm flat slides were pushed into the lovely new supple intake stubs ready to start their life of accurately metering the go juice and life-affirming oxygen through the oversize valves, opening far wider than Mr Kawasaki ever intended into the