In the summer of 1985-1986 while doing my engineering “professional placement”, I worked with a group of guys who all rode motorbikes. They taught me to ride and sold me their old learner-bike, an oily, leaky Kawasaki Z250 which I then rode into the ground through lack of maintenance and a slow oil leak. It expired at 6 am one cold morning with a loud clanking sound on the Captains Flat road as I was heading to work.
Frame: KZ250A-004679
Engine: KZ250A-004692
Replacing the destroyed big-end bearings turned out to be nearly impossible – the entire crankshaft and bearings was a single unit from the factory, so I ended up buying a second hand bottom end from a wreckers yard. Sadly my enthusiasm and naivety meant that I ended up buying the bottom end of a Z250C while I had a Z250A, and they were completely incompatible, so all the parts sat in my parent’s garage for a few years until I swapped them for a wrecked Hillman Hunter GT, which was part of another naive and enthusiastic project intended to get our decrepit Hillman Hunter station wagon back on the road.
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