09-04-2013, 09:01 AM
My wife and I ran into a rider (Tim) on a 2001 WS650 after we took a fortuitous wrong turn. The Tim is in his mid-50s and has several bikes including a CBR1000. We had a nice chat and he told the story of his Kawasaki twin.
It seems the guy he bought it from in NJ rider had removed (and lost) the beautiful chrome tank badges, had crudely removed the Kawasaki lettering from the back of the seat, and even took the WS650 decals off the beautiful steel side panels. To top it off he replaced everything with Triumph logos in an attempt to pass it off as a Bonneville.
The rear brake had never been used, the front was metal to metal, and the rear tire was incredibly flat spotted. What a mess.
Fortunately Tim appreciates a classic when he sees one and gave the bike a lot of TLC and returned it to nearly stock. It's a sharp bike with gorgeous 2 tone tank, big spoke wheels, big chrome fenders, and other nice touches.
Tim couldn't say enough good things about the CB1100 and knew a lot about the bike. Here is a poor quality pic taken with a cell phone of the 2 poised together.
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It seems the guy he bought it from in NJ rider had removed (and lost) the beautiful chrome tank badges, had crudely removed the Kawasaki lettering from the back of the seat, and even took the WS650 decals off the beautiful steel side panels. To top it off he replaced everything with Triumph logos in an attempt to pass it off as a Bonneville.
The rear brake had never been used, the front was metal to metal, and the rear tire was incredibly flat spotted. What a mess.
Fortunately Tim appreciates a classic when he sees one and gave the bike a lot of TLC and returned it to nearly stock. It's a sharp bike with gorgeous 2 tone tank, big spoke wheels, big chrome fenders, and other nice touches.
Tim couldn't say enough good things about the CB1100 and knew a lot about the bike. Here is a poor quality pic taken with a cell phone of the 2 poised together.
