Harris Z900 - Thunder Child

[Deleted account 211025001]

A friend just picked this up at the weekend and I thought some on here might like to have a ganders.

It's a tuned Z900 lump in a Harris frame & bodywork kit and had its own feature in Superbike back in the day.

He's doing a full resto on it but I really, really hope he keeps the paint job as INHO its gorgeous and a real throw back to the 70's!

.

Andres

 

[cookie]

the basic bike is probably very nice, but the bodywork and paint....

 

[Deleted account 231002001]

the basic bike is probably very nice, but the bodywork and paint....

What he said.

 

[Deleted account 211025001]

the basic bike is probably very nice, but the bodywork and paint....

I suspected that it may not be to everyones taste

Andres

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

What he said.

Put a naked model on it and do a centre spread in a 70's copy of Bike and there you go..................cool RETRO

 

[yamonda1]

I suspected that it may not be to everyones taste

Andres

It's to mine ... I fucking well love it !!

as a point of interest what kind of money buys a bike like that ?

 

[Deleted account 211025001]

It's to mine ... I fucking well love it !!

as a point of interest what kind of money buys a bike like that ?

He wouldn't tell me, other than it would "make me cry" (as in he got it well cheap!).

Andres

 

[Deleted account 211025001]

Put a naked model on it and do a centre spread in a 70's copy of Bike and there you go..................cool RETRO

Here you go JB, just for you!

From the Superbike article on the actual bike....

Andres

 

[yamonda1]

He wouldn't tell me, other than it would "make me cry" (as in he got it well cheap!).

Andres

Fair play to him

Is he a follower of the School of 1st Dibs

 

[Schtum]

I suspect I've got that issue of Superbike out in the garage.....

 

[Mutley]

KI fucking well love it !!

I have to agree. It would be a crime to cover up that paint job

 

[MarkShelley]

Jesus, you would need the flexibility of Louis Smith to get a leg over that rediculous seat

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

Here you go JB, just for you!

From the Superbike article on the actual bike....

Andres

Told you, I knew I could picture it

 

[Nice 'n' Fat]

I love it ...... proper 70's mental

 

[how much]

Andres

"what has been seen..... cannot be unseen"


its fair to say i would have thought it looked fookin Orrible in the 70's


hm

 

[GS TRV]

That looks bonkers!!

I like it a lot

 

[Ogmios]

Suitably daft - i like that.

No way could you cover up that paint job.

 

[Mr K]

I suspected that it may not be to everyones taste

Andres

It speaks of an era.

I love it.

 

[Schtum]

It speaks of an era.

Indeed it does - an era when road-going plastic-clad sportsbikes didn't exist and there was much lusting after the endurance racers of Godier Genoud and even Japauto, if you were a bit more avant garde.....

 

[turnipbmw]

if you dont like that paint, check out the wheels on the Rickman Z900 on ebay.
Hatfield