And so, despite pandemics and winter storms, we are at (or dangerously close to) the end of project Kawasaki Hybrid.
It starts, it runs and generally does everything that two-stroke triples should do, but with one exception: it’s in the wrong colour.
Our opening image shows the bike in a donor set of used bodywork that’s been fitted to check everything is where it should be and there’s no component clashes or inter-part interference.
Squeezing the proverbial quart into a pint pot, space was always going to be at a premium in certain areas. And that’s not something you’d normally have to think about on your average restoration but, obviously, this is a hybrid so nothing is guaranteed or can be taken for granted, etc. The only obvious issue spotted to date is the close proximity of the fuel tap to
