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Not often we get real hot sunny weather in the UK, so as today was a beautiful day I thought I would do a little 50 mile cruise around the surrounding villages, in the backwater I call home. Amazing what you find on your doorstep, I even stumbled across an old Coaching Inn that I last went if nearly 40 years ago; I honestly think I was a young lad of 17 - 18 years old. Real blast from the past.!

Just a few snaps of the old girl











Had to stop at the Inn I last visited on a KZ900A4 back in 1977:





Cheers Tim

Great photos, very well composed. Nice to see the bike - which looks terrific - in all of them. Are those air box covers the stainless steel ones from Finland? They look good. How did the bike run in this heat? Which church is that?

Great pics, should have some similar in the next couple of weeks if the weather holds. Reminds me of when I was on the Goldwing owners site a couple of years ago and joined in on a fun thread where someone names something random and you go for a ride, photo your bike with it and the first pic wins and names the next thing to look for , sounds a bit sad but I had some good little trips to obscure places, you need a good few people to join in for it to work well though.

That front 3/4 view is this bike's best angle, I think. By far. (You're getting me antsy to get mine back together!)

Jim,

Airbox covers are the Chrome Plastic units off an A3 model.

Re the heat - it got up to 35C and the bike ran perfectly The longer I have owned my Zed13 the more I have become attached to her; which is something I cannot say about most the bikes I have owned.

The church in the pics is a place called Brant Broughton: a neighbouring villiage - bit like the "land that time forgot" around here (which suits me fine).
Cheers Tim

Thanks for the reply, Tim. Does the cooling fan tend to come on only when at a stand-still, for example in traffic? I remember a 1979 road test in Which Bike magazine, in which John Nutting commented that the bike "looks amazing, sounds amazing, and even surprises you with things like the cooling fan coming on AFTER the engine has been switched off!"
What characteristics of the 1300 particularly make you more attached to the bike? I like to know owner's viewpoints, as my bike is a non-runner, so I have yet to experience the machine for myself.
That's a fine looking church. I like churches. I might divert and have a look, on one of my frequent journeys on the A1.