Wade's EX500 Page

NOTE: I collect 1966 motorcycle license plates. If you've got
one that you'd be willing to part with, drop me a line, eh?

I raced EX500s for a couple years, but I sold the last one I seriously campaigned in 2002. I dabbled briefly in 2006 with one, but not for long, and currently I have no EXs in the garage. Click on the following thumbnails to go to that page, or see a bigger picture.

	Here's a copy of the Cycle magazine review of the Kawasaki EX500
	Here's a list of tools I'd suggest you get to start working on your own bike
	Here's a list of stuff you might want to bring in your racing spares kit
	Here's some misc. bike info: How to calculate top speed from your tach, removing emissions stuff, tire widths, etc...
	One way to protect your mailbox from bat-weilding punks
	A table of gear ratios with various sprockets, and the speed at 10K RPM with a 150/80-16 rear tire (which has a circumference similar to the stock unit) (added 4/99)
	Overview of my ratbike, and observations on using my little lathe/mill (added 5/00)
	My experiences putting FZR4, ZX6, and F2 suspension under the back of my EX500, prints for captive rear wheel spacers to use an F2 rear wheel in a ZX6 swingarm, and cush-drive massaging (updated 30JULY2000)
	My experiences putting Honda CBR600 F2 suspension on the front of my EX (updated 30JULY2000)
	EX-500 Racing Wire-Loom, provided by Thunder 102 Kb (added FEB2000)
	Thunder's EX-500 Rear-shock setup (added FEB2000)
	Tim drew my EX while it was in the livingroom
	Here's the neato valve cover caps I machined to cover the holes where some emmisions stuff once resided; well here's the right side one. The left is exactly the same.
	Here's a picture of me on my first EX-racer. I'm CCS #371 It was EXciting.....EXhilarating....EXcellent...EXpensive....I'll do it again!
	Here's a crude map of the layout for roadracing at NHIS-1998...See the race-reports page for a map generated by my DAQ system
	Here's what an EX and 900 pounds of spares look like when boxed for cross-country shipping (108Kb)

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