« Reply #18 on: September 22, 2013, 12:05:30 pm »
It was from an era when bikes were interesting and varied, and this bike deserves some respect. It has lasted this long not to be dismantled or used for some other purpose now.
I'm with you Graeme. It'd be too easy to strip it down and modify the living fluck out of it to turn the bike into a boy racer. What you'd most probably end up with after spending a shitload of money is an poor handling and unreliable money pit that's been changed so much to fit some backyard bozo's idea of a poor boy racer that it's barely recognisable as the classic road bike it derived from. 10 years down the track it'll be laying up the back of some dusty shed with all of the road going parts long ago discarded, an almost worthless monument to young Bozo's long forgotten GP dream, just a pile of parts ready for eBay recycling. If however it had been sympathetically restored as the road going rarity that the RZ500 indeed is, it'll be worth much, much more than the hacked up wannabe racer it's ended up as.
I'm the poster child for building hot rod bikes but I also recognise that some bikes deserve to be preserved. If the for sale RZ was a rotten, written off hulk that's been down the road a few times I'd say go for it but this bike's too good to hot rod and deserves to remain stock, warts and all.
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