Talk me out of buying another old shitter

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Re: Talk me out of buying another old shitter

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last used in 1997... as a boat anchor.
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Re: Talk me out of buying another old shitter

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Julian_Boolean wrote: Mon Jul 27, 2020 3:41 pm And Weeksy thought the ZRX was nasty

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUZUKI-GSX40 ... %7Ciid%3A1

This is horrible
I could smell the WD40 from here, he's lathered it on literally everything to try and make it look better.
Once you get that off it'll look even worse.
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Re: Talk me out of buying another old shitter

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Buy this instead...

It's got some nice bits on it, bit more money :)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Suzuki-GSX-1 ... SwGOlfE~60
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Re: Talk me out of buying another old shitter

Post by Le_Fromage_Grande »

I'm not a huge fan of the 750/1000/1100 to ride (I like how they look), the riding position makes a heavy steering bike even heavier steering, I'd rather have another GSX1100ET (the Kat is just a tarted up ET) as the riding position is better, chain drive GS1000 also has the same frame btw, the big Suzukis are the best handling big bike of that era, but the competition for that title isn't great.
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Re: Talk me out of buying another old shitter

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I gather "modern classic" has replaced "barn find" as a description for clapped out overpriced POS that would be better as boat anchors.
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Re: Talk me out of buying another old shitter

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KungFooBob wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2020 7:25 pm Buy this old shitter instead.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/it ... 529295334/

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Oooh that's clever, I only C&P'ed the link.
Could they not have got the silencers further out?