Suzuki GSX R750G @ auction

[ChrisW]

Quite a lot of stuff at that auction did very well - the auctioneer did a really good job, imo.

[v8-powered]

Strong money that!

[KungFooBob]

If you want a mint 80's Suzuki, this one is much cheaperer (if I had £3.5k spare and more importantly some more garage space...

[ChrisW]

That looks like it's been nicely restored. I would.

[MyLittleStudPony]

Very very nice. Unrestored the listing says. Given the choice I'd rather have factory paint than Dream Machine. I had a ZZR which had (supposedly) been painted by them and it faded slightly unevenly. Anyway, better paint in a factory in Japan than done be goons in a shed in the UK.

[Skub]

I shuffled through that auction. Some real surprises. Z1s had a poor showing,one went for £9k. There still seems to be a market for old strokers. A UK H2a went for good money. I know the man who used to own it,he bid right up to the end,but it went past his limit.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I had a GSXR750F, for a 1985 bike it was good, they're fast and light, but the frames are a bit flexy and the riding position is an acquired taste.

Would I have another one, definitely not for road use, track maybe, but there are a lot better bikes out there for less money, which leaves would I want one just to own one, the answer is no, they're not special in any way, they're a fairly cheaply made mass produced bike.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Definitely ride one before you buy one, they're a 1985 race bike with lights

[mangocrazy]

It's all nostalgia, innit? It would be totally unrealistic to expect a 40 y.o. bike to even be in the same ballpark as a modern equivalent. You're just paying inflated sums for an aftermarket paint job on an 80s mass-produced bike that wouldn't hold a candle to a modern bike objectively.

But if you owned one, and it was a big thing for you back in the day, then I can understand trying to recapture that feeling. Good luck with that though - it's like trying to get back with a GF you had a fling with 40 years ago and expecting for the earth to move for you as it did back then. You've got 2 hopes, no hope and Bob Hope...

[Supermofo]

Gotta say as someone too young for that it looks like a slabbie that's been crashed and sprayed as opposed to anything special. I get there is some nostalgia value but not 14k for me. I remember seeing skoal bandit gixxers but bet most were cheap paintjobs.

Then again, due to age I suspect, I've never liked the look of slabbies. The later bikes,ZXRs and FZRs were way better looking

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I had a 1989 Slingshot after the 85, it handled better, but was slower and not as much fun to ride, but neither were as much fun as a 350 YPVS tuned by Stan Stephens.

[v8-powered]

Whilst at the MOT centre yesterday getting the old ditch pump MOT'd, noticed they had a fat old ThunderAce in there - was surprised how lardy it looked, I always thought they were almost a predecessor of the R1?

[Skub]

Whilst at the MOT centre yesterday getting the old ditch pump MOT'd, noticed they had a fat old ThunderAce in there - was surprised how lardy it looked, I always thought they were almost a predecessor of the R1?

They were in the era of the high speed sofas. ZZR1100,Blackbird,Hairypussy,etc. Big top speeds and bhp were all the rage.

[Bustaspoke]

I always thought the Thunderace was a EXUP with a touring fairing,isn't it the same motor & frame?

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

The Thunderarse was Yamaha's stop gap before the R1, it's a little bit more powerful than the first R1s, it's pretty much an EXUP engine in a YZF 750 frame, they're a really good, fast bike, the forks are very good, but it is heavy and a bit long, so it was no Fireblade beater, and the riding position is too sporty for it to be a sports tourer.

[KungFooBob]

It only had a the FZR's five speed box too, which wasn't a pro in the eyes of the press at the time.

Everyone I know who owned/ridden one really rated them.

It and the Chundercat were the first bikes to get the now legendary Yamaha Bluespots, which were at the time a shit load better brakes than any of the other jap manufacturers were fitting.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

It never needed a 6 speed box, power is a lot like your GSXR1100.

[KungFooBob]

It never needed a 6 speed box, power is a lot like your GSXR1100.

I'm happy with my 5 speed GSXR, just sayin' it was a big downer in the press at the time. It had monster torque so didn't need 6 speeds, but 6 speeds were the fashion at the time.

[Bigjawa]

It never needed a 6 speed box, power is a lot like your GSXR1100.

I'm happy with my 5 speed GSXR, just sayin' it was a big downer in the press at the time. It had monster torque so didn't need 6 speeds, but 6 speeds were the fashion at the time.

I heard of a few conversions, I think it was FZ750 guts in the FZR box. Think you could do the same with the GSXR, but nobody ever bothered doing it.

[Whysub]

I had a 1985 GSX-R750H that I commuted 20,000 miles a year on for 8 years. By that time it was well worn mechanically, however, the paintwork was still amazingly good and still had the factory exhaust. Think I only ever replaced the clutch plates twice, and fixed the electrical problems it frequently had at higher miles.

Bike was destroyed in a crash in 2003, and I got paid out the agreed value for it, without an assessor viewing anything more than my photos.

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A few weeks later I bought a tatty but original 1984 F model very cheap from Reading. I put it in the van to get it home, didn't test ride it.

Next day I rode it the 60 miles to work, but it just felt all wrong compared to my H model. Sold it fairly easily, but learnt that you can't always replace like for like successfully

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Incidentally, I sold the spare wheels I had for the H to a Jota owner, who said they fitted the Jota with just a small spacer having to be made. Sold for £20 the pair. No one wanted slab side parts in the mid 2000's