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02-12-2021, 09:13 PM | #31 |
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As a teen I always wanted my mates Suzuki GS1000e and a Z1. Loved the Guzzi Le Mons too.
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04-12-2021, 04:27 PM | #32 |
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April 1979's Bike Magazine had this on the cover:
After a good read - that was that, I'm having one of those !! Here it is soon after delivery from Harris and ready to go to Inverness for inspection. A long long story but about 40 years and about £20K later, here we are:
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04-12-2021, 05:11 PM | #33 |
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Yes some of the early Jap "superbikes" were all engine and very little frame.
As I think I said the ZI I tried in 1977 hated corners. I had an XS1100 which was truly awful unless the road was dead smooth. I remember going (not fast) down an unknown but bumpy B road and ending up on the wrong side of the road- a real brown trouser moment. Mind you I had a similar brown trouser moment on a perfectly well handling Thundercat on a test ride in 1997 when I totally misread a hump backed bridge over a canal near to the Aston Villa training ground. I ended up in flight and again landed on the wrong side of the road -but this was totally my fault. |
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