Another Silk Purse Project - zzr250

After a number weeks stripping, cleaning, fixing, cleaning, patching, repairing, high pressure cleaning, scrubbing, painting, cleaning and more cleaning, project zzr is looking and going well..

The bike was donated to Jus by Mick and T as it had been sitting in there back yard for a while and was in need of a lot of TLC. Thanks guys..

We got it home after the P.I. superbikes thanks to Glen, and immediately started cleaning it up.. It was pretty messy, but we got it going and seemed mechanically OK so we figured it may be worth a bit of time to make it something decent.
We went through 4 cans of degreaser to get the crap of it and to be able to see what were up against..

We stripped the front bodywork, tank etc and patched bogged, sanded and painted it. Whilst stripped we had the carbies out, cleaned em up, new plugs, new oil, new air filter (sorta, it was cut from an old zx9 filter) tidied up the wiring. dropped in a new battery and generally cleaned up everything. Dumped the fork oil, added heavier weight oil and 60 cents of preload to each fork leg, flushed the radiator, bled and cleaned up the brakes and sprayed the frame.


Damo did a great job painting the fairings and helped fit them up. We got her going last week and fixed up the all the lights and blinkers for rego. The finishing touches went on this weekend (thanks Rob for the stickers), flushed the radiator again, some fresher oil and some more tweaking of the carbs to get it running nicely..
Jus is taking it in for blue slip this week...

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Congrats Jus looks, great work boyz now you might do more riding than Dave

That looks great, especially considering how it looked when you got it home. So now you've got yourself a roadbike will we see you at the PiTS on Sunday's Dave???

That looks great, especially considering how it looked when you got it home. So now you've got yourself a roadbike will we see you at the PiTS on Sunday's Dave???

Not sure if Jus will let me borrow it..

I'll probly be at home looking after the kids and she'll be up there...

Looking good jus and dave , look's like new again , concrat's great work. cheers brendan

thats looking good Dave. Its good to see a ZZR restored to its former glory

See you on the (0ld) road, girlfriend!

What, no lamps?

That come up excellent, great work!
Jus looks right at home on it too


Maybe i should have taken up the offer to ship certain boxes of bike back to you guys with it
Yeah as if you would...

Nice work mate. Looks a bit prettier than it did on the back of the trailer.

So now you'll be at home working on bikes while looking after the kids and Jus will be out riding.......You sure there's nothing else wrong with it??????

Great stuff guys, looks fantastic!

I can imagine the phone calls now "Hi Jus, can Dave borrow your bike and come out? PLEASEEEEE!!"

Very nice looking bike indeed.
You've done well Dave, i mean Jus!!!

As others have said, the next question is when can Dave borrow it?

Am thrilled for you, Jus! Great work guys

nice work !

looking good....although I would armour-all that seat a bit more

Have a go at the 2 bogans in the 6th pic...