Full restoration of my genuine 'barn find' 2000 year Kawasaki ZX7r P5.
I rescued this bike in November 2019 from a damp junk filled outbuilding here in the UK where it had been sat rotting away for 12 years crushed behind a rusty VW camper van, The bike was entangled in ivy and buried under an old mattress and boxes of old car parts and rubbish.
I love the 80/90's Kawasaki inline fours, both ZXR's and ZX7R's. I've previously owned an L3 and P7.
I couldn't bare to think of this bike corroding into dust, I had to save it!
After numerous attempts to convince the owner he should let me have it he eventually gave in, It took three of us 2 hours to remove it from its automotive tomb.
It's only had the one owner and showed 23k on the clocks.
I believe it had been well looked after up until it was 'not so carefully' garaged.
After 12 years sat dormant the oil still looked clean when drained, every bolt but one came undone without shearing or rounding off, every bearing and linkage had also been well greased.
26 авг 2024
