13 years ago.... GPX750R
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13 years ago.... GPX750R
Apparently this one was 13 years ago today
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Re: 13 years ago.... GPX750R
It was an ace story that one.... I bought it after a "need a cheap bike for the wife" type thread over somewhere else...
She'd sold her 748S to subsidise maternity pay and give her the first year with our lad...
One of the old member 2ptjoe who now posts as Mr Tea over on PB-evo forum offered me this for £250.... I recall we had to drag it off a van as the wheels had siezed, i think it was @formula400 who brought it over ?
Anyway... it took a few months... it took a lot of time and effort and i'm still not sure me and @crust ever got the timing chain correct LOL.... but eventually she took it out.... and absolutely hated it !!!! Swore she'd never ride it again.
So we shipped it out and bought a GSXR600 which was honestly about as bad !!!
She'd sold her 748S to subsidise maternity pay and give her the first year with our lad...
One of the old member 2ptjoe who now posts as Mr Tea over on PB-evo forum offered me this for £250.... I recall we had to drag it off a van as the wheels had siezed, i think it was @formula400 who brought it over ?
Anyway... it took a few months... it took a lot of time and effort and i'm still not sure me and @crust ever got the timing chain correct LOL.... but eventually she took it out.... and absolutely hated it !!!! Swore she'd never ride it again.
So we shipped it out and bought a GSXR600 which was honestly about as bad !!!
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Re: 13 years ago.... GPX750R
The 600 and 750 GPX were nervy,slappy bikes.
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Re: 13 years ago.... GPX750R
They weren't slow,but the handling was lively. Not mister K's finest hour.
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Re: 13 years ago.... GPX750R
Didn't do too badly on it, I think it stood me about £500 after sorting the brakes, fuelling and paint etc. It sold for £800 I think.
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Re: 13 years ago.... GPX750R
Sounds like you were afraid of the bikes. You need to use plenty of throttle, then gan them reet over.
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Re: 13 years ago.... GPX750R
I never liked them. But IIRC the GPX was worse. Quite an achievement by Kawasaki which they replicated with the GPz900R and the GPZ1000RX.
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Re: 13 years ago.... GPX750R
If you remember it, you weren't there, or something.
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Re: 13 years ago.... GPX750R
I actually liked them, just felt a bit too small for me so might be why you hated it being the lanky type.
On the subject of the GPX i almost bought one but a very good nick GPz750R came along at the same time and was under a grand so i bought that instead so never got round to riding the GPX. Sounds like i wouldnt have liked it going by you lot
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Re: 13 years ago.... GPX750R
I think it was just an uncared for tired bike that's all. I bought it for £600 with tax and a ticket, but it was pretty shagged at 36,000 miles. The exhaust was properly rotten and it had silly sized wheels so you couldn't get proper rubber. Only bought it so I didn't have to use my Fireblade for the winter commute (circa 2005).
It got nicked in the end. I think they thought they were getting the Blade when they broke into my garage, but the Blade was in my mums garage, I used to swap bikes/garage at the weekend.
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Re: 13 years ago.... GPX750R
A mate of mine had a GPX600R as his first 'big' bike and assumed that it was because he was inexperienced that he didn't get on with it. Another friend of his, who had been riding for ages took it out for a spin and hated it. His words were 'if you can ride that, you can ride anything'. Shprtly after Tim chopped it in for a ZXR400 and the scales dropped from his eyes...
And Tony Middlehurst, one time editor of Superbike mag, acquired a GPX750R to use in proddy race series. He was so alarmed by its handling that he took it to Tony Foale, who promptly welded a lot of frame bracing struts and gussets in, after which it handled a lot more predictably.
And Tony Middlehurst, one time editor of Superbike mag, acquired a GPX750R to use in proddy race series. He was so alarmed by its handling that he took it to Tony Foale, who promptly welded a lot of frame bracing struts and gussets in, after which it handled a lot more predictably.
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Re: 13 years ago.... GPX750R
Blimey, I remember that thread on VD. Time flies when you're having fun
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Re: 13 years ago.... GPX750R
When i blew my GPX up on the Edinburgh bypass i left it overnight in a layby at the Burdiehouse section. Right dodgy area. How disappointed i was when i went to collect it next evening as it was still thereKungFooBob wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 7:35 pm It got nicked in the end. I think they thought they were getting the Blade when they broke into my garage, but the Blade was in my mums garage, I used to swap bikes/garage at the weekend.
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Re: 13 years ago.... GPX750R
16 inch front wheel and Dunlop Arrowmax tyres, lovely engine but the rest of it was awful.
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Re: 13 years ago.... GPX750R
weeksy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 4:33 pm It was an ace story that one.... I bought it after a "need a cheap bike for the wife" type thread over somewhere else...
She'd sold her 748S to subsidise maternity pay and give her the first year with our lad...
One of the old member 2ptjoe who now posts as Mr Tea over on PB-evo forum offered me this for £250.... I recall we had to drag it off a van as the wheels had siezed, i think it was @formula400 who brought it over ?
Anyway... it took a few months... it took a lot of time and effort and i'm still not sure me and @crust ever got the timing chain correct LOL.... but eventually she took it out.... and absolutely hated it !!!! Swore she'd never ride it again.
So we shipped it out and bought a GSXR600 which was honestly about as bad !!!
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