Spares

[ZZ-Rse]

Well, as you may or may not have guessed by the 'Buying' ad in the Exchange and Mart forum I recently discovered a pressing need to buy a radiator and oil cooler for my ZZR11, this wasn't too scary until I got quoted the best part of 800 quid for the pair as new from Cradley kwak, and then had a nightmare trying to source parts from breakers. No one seemed to have anything, not even as a buy and bodge it project.
Ended up dealing with a little shop in Malvern called Japan bike spares, suffice to say I've been most impressed. £100 for Rad, Oil cooler and a standard brake disc in good condition. They seem to specialise in importing wrecks and breaking, so much grey import goodness and some obscure parts as well. Just a heads up really, I hadn't realised how much the traditional bike breakers had disappeared until I really started looking for these parts

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If you look around bike trader and MCN there's loads of breakers advertising... may take a while to rind around, but you can usually find what you want unless it's something really exotic.

[badlydamaged]

Part finder is also a really good service for finding used parts, Ive searched for parts using it a few times, but havent had much luck with unique to my bike parts because my bike is so old and it isn't really worth them paying people to take the bike apart when the parts aren't worth anything anyway. However for generall stuff like carbs and engine bits its brilliant!, and I guess for newer bikes like yours it would be excellent! Its a free service so I'd always give it a shot if I need parts.
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