This bike belongs to my friend Leroy, I did a little work on it for him. I took it out and rode it before I tore it down but I just couldn't bring myself to light the turbo off, I pussed out. All I did to it was have the body work re-painted, changed the tires, went through the brakes, had the exhaust redone, polished the forks, and clean the rest up. I sent the exhaust to Canada for re-chroming(without the copper layer)and when I got it back the box looked like a cardboard gunny sack, the ends were open and there was 6 pieces of chrome missing, one of which was the connector pipe for this bike(another was a piece for the 1957 Honda I am restoring)and it was a bitch to replace. I talked to a fellow in NY that had a log manifold and connector pipe but he didn't want to sell it and 5 weeks after the parts were lost I found a set in Australia and bought it but it was rusty and dented so I had to send it off to Canada to be re-done. In the meantime I talked the fellow in NY into giving me his connector pipe and letting me replace it with the re-chromed one when it gets back. That was very outstanding of him to do and it saved me at least a few weeks. Anyway, here is the bike. Leroy had his man Hector do the paint and he did a 3 stage candy and as far as I can see he matched the Candy Moondust Silver perfectly. When the Z1R came out in 78 I liked it but I didn't think it was as sharp then as I do now, what a beautiful motorcycle.
