Q. What do you get when you cross a 1974 Kawasaki Z900 frame with a 1998 Kawasaki ZX900R forks, wheels, brakes and
mono-shock swing-arm?
A. One tough-looking Kawasaki rolling chassis.
This is what a stock 1974 Kawasaki Z900 looked like (duh!)...
I bought a stock 1998 Kawasaki ZX9R at Fowles
Auction Group
(it had thrown a rod through the block but was never crashed)
This is the rolling chassis now (June 2001)...
The frame has been raked & strengthened
and the forks extended by five inches...
and the boys at Bob Martin Engineering did a great job
of jamming the 1998 swing-arm into a 1974 frame...
Ohhh yeah, this is going to be fun...
Looks like it was always there.
Kawasaki should have made them like this in 1974...
Below is an (animated) artists impression
of the next few stages of the bike...
More to come sometime!