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 Post subject: Kawasaki MT1
PostPosted: Mon Nov 09, 2015 2:22 pm 

Joined: Wed Sep 17, 2014 6:24 pm
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Location: Southern California
The same guy who dumped that KV75 on me :lol: sends me a text with a link to another KV75. Not interested. I take a look at the ad and I'm no expert but the ad should say MT1. I notice the front fork springs look really low which if I remember right means early '71. I'm not close to the seller so I call up my 80 year old dad and say, "hey dad you feel like driving three hours round trip to pick up a little bike for me" I don't like buying anything without seeing it and I really don't like it when it's in a million pieces but for $175 what the hell.

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 Post subject: Re: Kawasaki MT1
PostPosted: Mon Nov 09, 2015 2:51 pm 

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Location: South Dakota
Makes it a lot easier to clean. :D

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 Post subject: Re: Kawasaki MT1
PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 2015 4:01 pm 

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Location: Southern California
As some of you know the price of parts for these little bikes are crazy.

But I had to pull the trigger on this for $60.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kawasaki-NOS-NE ... Gd&vxp=mtr


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 Post subject: Re: Kawasaki MT1
PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2015 3:04 pm 
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Location: Mount Vision, NY
I found some good info and some really nice folks at the forum on Yahoo for the little fellas...




https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/kv75/info

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 Post subject: Re: Kawasaki MT1
PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2015 4:32 pm 
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Location: Colorado Springs, CO. USA
I don't know the comparison for these vs Honda Z50's - but the early Z's are crazy in cost for anything OEM.

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 Post subject: Re: Kawasaki MT1
PostPosted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 12:39 am 

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Location: Southern California
Seems like parts cost more for MT1/KV than Z50's.

The sad part for Kawi fans is complete MT1/KV's aren't worth what Z50's are. :banghead


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 Post subject: Re: Kawasaki MT1
PostPosted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 4:35 pm 

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It's together as it can be for now.

Rough and missing pieces but not too bad.

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