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Hi everyone

I live in a small village inbetween Glasgow and Edinburgh, at the moment i am unable to work due to an accident at work 5 years ago. Due to this i have an illness called CRPS which is basically my nerves in my legs are damaged.

I have always loved bikes since i was 14 i got my first one and have always had one or ten over the years i am 42 now and have roughly 30 in various states.

When i was 17 one of my friends bought a z1300 and i loved it the power the grunt of the engine the querks of the bike. So it was one bike i never actually had until a couple of years ago when someone offered me one. But always stayed with me.
It was an imported from your fine country a kz1300 tourer in a sorry state. So over three months myself and my pals stripped it down and powdercoated and painted everything. It is not a black metalic paint job with a gold painted stipe to match the original decals the bike had.
The bike itself ran great for a while comfy as hell and with the added bonus of the storage boxes was ideal for touring Scotland.

I then got the chance of getting a kz1300 voyager with fuel injection so i thought why not. I do like it a lot better handling and runs great not done much to it. I am just waiting till i finish a Z1000p chop i am building which is getting a supercharer before i tackle the Voyager. I am fortunate in that i have my own powdercoating oven and blast room so i can powdercoat everything in a couple of hours and start re-building in the same day.

I can never see me getting rid of any of the two of these bikes as i just can not fault them

Your own powder-coating oven and blast room!

Are any of your neighbours houses up for sale as I might move to Scotland

It is not a big oven only 2.5 metres by 1.5 metres by 2 metres but ideal for doing some frames and the like.
I used to run a comercial powder coaters then went bust so got a small industrial unit and managed to get some stuff of ebay to fit it out. A man cave as such for just building bikes and trikes but it is just a hobby for me. As sometimes i can take the weight of a bike and other times i cann't so has to be a trike.
And also like to know something has been properly coated with powder rather a wee squish of powder to colour it. Or how many times have you stuck something into get powder coated and then spent hours cleaning out threads or bearing area's that they have not taped up or plugged properly.
The time issue also benefits me as i can usually strip a bike in a couple of hours and get the frame and bits painted in the same day rather than waiting a week to get it done.
And then build it back together.