Re: Probably India's youngest KB-100 RTZ

Seeing a KB100 after a very long time . Its was a very desirable bike to have during my college days.
Happy Restoring !

Re: Probably India's youngest KB-100 RTZ

It will not necessarily be the gear that broke, it's often just a little "sprag" (pawl, I guess it's called) that engages the gear (from the inside, actually). I had one break years ago when I was in an extremely inconvenient spot way out in Spiti Valley (H.P.)... I had to push-start the bike on ridiculously rough, steep roads at high altitude, the rest of that week. If I remember right, I'd just put in a new (non-OE) replacement from Karol Bagh (Delhi), and the breakage was on account of its very poor quality. Later just reground/reshaped the original (still works even if a little shorter), and salvaged a couple more OE pieces from scrapyards, but probably not an easy find these days. I've got two of these bikes (100/125) that I've been running over 10 years.

Under normal circumstances, when well-tuned / maintained these bikes don't require much kicking - much less hard kicking - so it's not a part especially prone to breakage (unless you've got engine issues... or have used spurious spares... or are riding at 11,000+ft!).

Yours looks like a nice original bike, by the way. My 125 was bought with the engine in pieces in a cardboard box... but my 100, while neglected mechanically, was really pretty (black, with all the original pieces and good chrome/paint) when a friend (original owner) gave it to me.

-Eric

Re: Probably India's youngest KB-100 RTZ

I am the second person to own this bike after my uncle. Luckily he loved this machine so much that it was well maintained and can still amuse anyone even after 26 long years.Haven't found the kick pawl yet.

Re: Probably India's youngest KB-100 RTZ

[MENTION=78575]KB Reborn[/MENTION], you have competition. My 1990 Delta... done around 45k

Re: Probably India's youngest KB-100 RTZ

Apparently, the masters were right.

The pawl was the culprit for the kick not working.
Guess, I will just have to rebuild her again. Replaced the shaft, pawl, spring, pin and pinion.

Should be good for another 20k at least !

Finally got them parts after 3+ years of hunting !!!!!!!!!

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Bro, sorry I lost my old account. I finally got the part. Lets see what we can do now.

Can you help me by telling which engine oil to put so the clutch doesn't slip? I've put motul 3000 for the engine and used castrol 2t for the oil pump can !! Is this okay??

Re: Probably India's youngest KB-100 RTZ

stick to shell rimula gulf 4t or any other half decent brand, you should be fine, castrol or shell will work fine with oil pump , just remember to add 20 or 30 ml of 2t to your tank every time you fill up petrol

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Thanks a lot for the support. This is the first time I'm seeing the inside of the engine. Quite impressive design for back in the days!

Rotary valve! What crazy imagination! [emoji108]

I will keep posted. It's full on mission to build a scrambler out of this 2stroke Kawasaki now !

Can you tell me if I can get the original Kawasaki tank emblems ? Or will I have to do with the Kbajaj one itself? [emoji52]

Regards,
Rajdeep.

Re: Probably India's youngest KB-100 RTZ

kbs always came with the k bajaj ones never with kawasaki one, you might be able to source ones used in kh100 ore kh125 or gto from abroad

Re: Probably India's youngest KB-100 RTZ

Here's the engine fully reworked on revving. She needs a lot of cleaning and pampering before she's done though.

and thats just the stock sound!

Going to have so much fun working on it steadily in future.

A short ride on the KB100 this Sunday :