Frosty evening ride

[Millietant]

After a glorious sunny day, with temperatures in the low teens (Celsius), my new-to-the-FJ pals asked if I fancied a ride out this evening. It seemed like a brilliant idea, so at 6pm we're headed out into the countryside for a little 50 mile round trip, with a stop off for a cuppa.

Those LED headlight bulbs really make a difference to the pleasure level of night riding, but the winter chill certainly don't

Leaving the celubrious accommodations of a random, warm McDonalds around 8pm, we suddenly realised that in winter, with clear skies, the temperatures suddenly fall quite dramatically once the sun goes down and riding in 1 degree Celsius, without a winter jacket lining and wearing unlined summer gloves, might not have been the best of ideas 

But, nevertheless, it was another great ride with no physical after effects and another step on my road to recovery 

[Old Rider]

Good to see you back in the saddle Dean!. it looks like all 3 fj in picture has converted to lead bulbs. When cold i use 100% wool gloves inside the riding gloves.  watch out for ice when riding  in or out of tunnels or over bridges dont ask me how i know. but i guess you already know about that.
Bless you!

[Old Rider]

I also have put a LED phillips bulb H4 socket in my kawasaki and it doubled the brightness.
I took a trip on the kz900 yesterday after i put on some vintage look tires

[Millietant]

We're all using OSRAM P43t LED bulbs in our FJ's.

They're fantastic. Pete was with us on his 2015 R1 for about 20 miles on Tuesday evening and the R1's headlights looked like candles in comparison to our FJ's. 

[FJ1200W]

We're all using OSRAM P43t LED bulbs in our FJ's. 

Plug and play?

[Millietant]

We're all using OSRAM P43t LED bulbs in our FJ's. 

Plug and play?

Yes, just need to trim the rubber boot cover (I secured mine with a bit of duct tape).

[FJ1200W]

We're all using OSRAM P43t LED bulbs in our FJ's. 

Plug and play?

Yes, just need to trim the rubber boot cover (I secured mine with a bit of duct tape).

Thanks - I'm willing to try LED again.

[T Legg]

I also have put a LED phillips bulb H4 socket in my kawasaki and it doubled the brightness.
I took a trip on the kz900 yesterday after i put on some vintage look tires

Your Kawasaki is a nice looking bike. How did you fix the hole you found in the casting when you first bought it?
 I put new much better rear shocks ,tires and brake caliper on my 71' CB750 k1 this winter. I went for more modern tires this time. Between the tires and shocks it handles much better. It still doesn't stop worth a shit.

[Old Rider]

Your Kawasaki is a nice looking bike. How did you fix the hole you found in the casting when you first bought it?
 I put new much better rear shocks ,tires and brake caliper on my 71' CB750 k1 this winter. I went for more modern tires this time. Between the tires and shocks it handles much better. It still doesn't stop worth a shit.

Hi Travis!
This is not the same bike i first bought a z1000 1977 ,but owned that for about 4-5 days because i found bad things with it .I returned it to seller and got the money back.

Then i bought this kz900 1976 .At first it did run good but then started to misfire and doing funny things like melting a coil. I found camchain had stretched and camsliders and rollers was worn.The camchain jumped 1 tooth.I then got problem setting the valve timing. Long story short i ended up doing a full rebuild of the head cut valveseats  stuffed in new cylinder sleeves got them bored /honed to the oem 903cc pistons
replaced all o-rings and bearings in engine replaced camchain and camrollers/sliders checked oilpump and gearbox
new boyer bransden electronic ignition and coils.  Not cheap but at least now i know what i have.

Cool you have a cb750 k1 nice bikes. what brand is the chocks ? are they soft?
I ask because i also replaced the rear chocks this winter because they was cheep and looked nice with the reflector they are for kawa z1 the models before kz900.They are way to stiff like riding with no damping and i did not like how they look on my bike  .I will put the old chocks that sat on the bike back.


Here is a pick from yesterday after washing and polishing