RZ500 Photos

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	75K	The bike before I owned it, but this is the condition it was in when I got it.
	67K	The bike before I owned it, but this is the condition it was in when I got it.
	64K	No seat lock :-(
	71K	The bike before I owned it, but this is the condition it was in when I got it.
	75K	The bike before I owned it, but this is the condition it was in when I got it.
	98K	The bike before I owned it, but this is the condition it was in when I got it.
	83K	The bike before I owned it, but this is the condition it was in when I got it.
	95K	The bike before I owned it, but this is the condition it was in when I got it.
	102K	The bike before I owned it, but this is the condition it was in when I got it.
	33K	This is what greeted me when I lifted the upper right hand cylinder. Brown murky water gushed out as soon as I broke the gasket seal.
	54K	What I saw when I took the cylinder head off. Doh!!
	39K	See I did get it running!
	55K	Although it did blow a bit of smoke. Cough, cough.
	31K	Thats not what you want to see in the exhaust port!
	52K	Pic taken by me after taking possesion of the bike.
	78K	Muck that poured all over the motor. Note reed block!
	36K	Combustion chamber eaten away by corrosion.
	52K	Its alive!!!
	70K	Pollution? What pollution? Note suspicious looking steam comming out one pipe. The complete rebuild wasnt far away...
	57K	This smoke comes from a hole in the upper lefthand pipe. I fixed it eventually.
	180K	This is what I want my bike to look like eventually, obviously no grab rail, that was a euro/US thing.
	90K	More inspiration.