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1989kawasaki:
keep the "old" look to it cause making an older bike look like a current model is the worst thing you can do in my eyes

Friar-Tuck:
Hey Steelie,
 Glad to have you back in "The World" and welcome to the K5 Contingency!
  Your bike looks great!  Hope it loves you long time with hrs of troublefree operation.
 Let us know how we can help, Take some time to de-compress and relax. 
   The best advice I can give you is get a clymer and or service manual and mind that throttle control...
You can get in a big mess quite quickly.   You don't realize how fast your going 'til you try to slow down!

  Tuck\o/   

81cr450:
Great looking bike & congrats! My vote is leave it be. There's something about an older bike that looks really clean, like pulling out a time capsule. Just make sure it's serviced & ready to ride, which it sounds like you are doing. Have fun

SteelHorse751:
 From the consensus so far, it sounds like most are of the same opinion as the guys who were at the shop when I checked the bike out for the first time.
 
 Clean it up, but leave it like it is.

  Talking to the guys that were at the shop (lots and lots of Vintage and Post Vintage Era bikes there) who race Vintage bikes and knew the history behind this K5 all said it would be a same to change it too much from the way it is now. Alot of them have been Racing Motocross in and around Texas since the early 70s and knew the oringinal owner of the bike. Some pretty cool stories they had about not only this bike but just racing in general through the last 30+ years.

 Plus, as I got it home and cleaned up the current look really started growing on me as well. 

 Fryar-Tuck: I was only home on R&R for a coupe of weeks. I am back in Afghanistan for a while longer, but I took a bunch of pictures so that (a long with talking to you guys on KXRiders) will get me through until  get back home for good.

SteelHorse751:
 Was wondering if anyone has seen Radiator covers that look like the ones on my bike.

 I have found that most everything on the bike is a product of the early to mid 90s but I haven't been able to find out much info on these covers/guards.

 They look like they will do a good job of protecting the Radiators, but just was wondering.....

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