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Marketplace => For Sale => Topic started by: Graeme M on February 02, 2008, 09:59:51 pm

Title: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: Graeme M on February 02, 2008, 09:59:51 pm
Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar.  This infamous ugly beast the "Black Rat"  is sitting in my shed and does so need to be on the track ! Love to see the fun, hard work and terror in a teams eyes again. The old horror is fully running and comes with a large crate of engine / gearbox spares plus two burnt out bikes (Motors gearboxes still in frames). Needs front brake cable and a set of mufflers as the straight out headers are a tad loud ..well a lot (but does sound gorgeous).

Has Boyer electronic sparks and runs a modified twin Mikuni head.

Asking $3000          

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Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: LWC82PE on February 02, 2008, 10:15:41 pm
pretty much an A10 BSA isnt it. i know a guy who was desperatly looking for a pre 68 sidecar or a bike to build one and he pretty much came to the decision that the only choice was a euro 2 stroke, one of these kwakas, a A10 BSA or a triumph or norton. im not sure what hes done now or if he has found anything though.
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: Tim754 on February 03, 2008, 12:24:24 am
 Common misconception ,Not even the spark plugs are the same Leith. Closer to BSA A7 but still nothing really interchanges .
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: Tony T on February 03, 2008, 01:51:46 am
Nice photo.  ;D  Was that at Morgan? Did I take it?
Sorry for the dribble.......... I've been out shooting Joe Cocker and had one or two (thousand) drinks afterwards..........................
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: LWC82PE on February 03, 2008, 08:21:47 am
if it was taken at morgan then the guy looking for a bike probabaly saw it there.
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: paul on February 03, 2008, 08:28:27 am
the rider boots  are the bis ness ;)
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: Tim754 on February 03, 2008, 10:08:27 am
Tony it was not one of yours. Got plenty of others of yours of Morgan and Steve but they are private photo album photos. Pissed with Joe Cocker hardly seems true.................Paul ,Steve was um all round "..Suss. hippie different"
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: Tony T on February 03, 2008, 11:50:41 am
Pissed with Joe Cocker hardly seems true.................

That's cos it's not.  :D
He walked off stage, jumped in a car and buggered off straight away as he's playing in Perth tonight.
So yes, I shot Joe Cocker and yes, we got pissed after, but he wasn't there.  :(
Sorry, off topic a bit.
btw Tim, feel free to share those photos with anybody you want to. Copy the CD even. I don't mind.
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: oldfart on February 03, 2008, 12:24:42 pm
Tim ..looks like the jockey is either assisting with the turning into corner or stopping axle bolt from comming out  8)   cool shot all the same
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: Hoony on February 03, 2008, 03:50:04 pm
yeah i would like to see some of the old morgan mile if you got them.
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: Tim754 on February 06, 2008, 08:58:15 pm
Tim Here  :D Will consider Swap or trade in for  Any Speedway outfit complete, incomplete rooted... CB754 bike ,sidecar or stuff , SL125 Or a TM125 Suzuki..... Really! :D :) Oh $3000 is just a rough figure ; OK)
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: YSS on February 06, 2008, 09:10:21 pm
Gee Tim , only $3000   , that should sell quickly for that money. There are blokes in WA that are always looking for something like that.
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: paul on February 06, 2008, 09:19:28 pm
walter get those guy fromm wa to catch the train acroos and they coud ride it straight back across the nullabour flat chat   ;D ;D
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: YSS on February 06, 2008, 09:21:57 pm
They probaly would too.
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: LWC82PE on February 06, 2008, 09:25:33 pm
yeah when ever there is the sidecar cross meeting at Morgan or Warnambool there these guys that come over from WA and they always drop in and say hi and they are always asking for wasp parts, they are always looking for wasp stuff as they reckon theres none of that stuff over there.
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: YSS on February 06, 2008, 09:26:59 pm
Thats funny , we have so many Wasp and EML parts , let them know if they need any .
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: LWC82PE on February 06, 2008, 09:36:25 pm
next time they come i will forward them on to you. one time they came and one guy had his eye on black wasp tank but i said he cant have that as it was a customers tank being painted.
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: YSS on February 06, 2008, 09:39:23 pm
We have Tanks and all the moulds for Wasp +EML to reproduce if we ever run out. 
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: Tim754 on February 06, 2008, 11:32:09 pm
Hmm WA fellas and Yss ...... ;) 8)
In truth Walter that amount is "very" flexible. Actually I know this gentleman that is into YSS Suspension systems with a VMX sidecar Museum in SA, thinking that if nothing happens , I was going to ask if it could join the collection. As is no changes, ugly homebuilt and so rough and running. :) Cheers Tim
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: YSS on February 06, 2008, 11:35:44 pm
Tim that bike should be left rough as it is , its also a bit of a time capsule . There where the Wasps and there where also the homebuilts . That was all part of the history. Perhaps it should go to the museeum.
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: Tim754 on February 17, 2008, 12:54:36 pm
(17th-24TH) For One Week Only .......$2600......... To friends on forum. It is extra rides at your meeting with a mate or partner. A piece of infamous history.  Look what sort of + 650cc VMX machine going ,does $2600 buy you now?????   
    .......Will definitely consider swap for complete going Suzuki TM125..... or that poor sad old Wasp frame lying about. Tim
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: YSS on February 17, 2008, 01:26:58 pm
Take it to CD 5 , so we can have a "race". I will try to bring an old Wasp along.
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: walloway on April 04, 2008, 06:44:59 pm
Tim, Is this bike still for sale?
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: Tim754 on April 04, 2008, 09:28:32 pm
Yes/ less some spares.
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: walloway on April 04, 2008, 09:53:28 pm
Can you PM me with some details? Ta. Don
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: VMX247 on April 04, 2008, 09:59:09 pm
welcome aboard walloway (Don),your in good hands 8)
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: Tim754 on April 04, 2008, 10:06:02 pm
Walla check you normal email Tim ;)
Title: Re: Kawasaki W1 650cc Twin pre68 Sidecar
Post by: walloway on April 05, 2008, 08:31:33 am
Thanks VMX247. I'm in good hands, what with Tim the purveyor of fine machinery or the site in general?