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rodbargee wrote: Fri Jan 22, 2021 3:22 pm Image

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A 1000cc north/south inline 3cyl. two stroke....with pressure oiling and a scavenge oil pump...in 1936!!!
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Scuffmark wrote: Fri Jan 22, 2021 10:27 am
Skub wrote: Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:57 pm How about a lockdown restoration project? Would you hand over £3550 for this one?


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1974-Kawasak ... 0009.m1982


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Can't think why but I like that :wtf:

Maybe it reminds me of the bikes I grew up looking at as a pre-teenager?.... Don't think I'd want to pay £3.5k for it though.
Personally not because I haven't got the skills to restore it.

But...it looks 100% original and actually not in too bad nick so someone will buy that.
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A bit of money splashed on this old Z.


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Some old school schitt with a 'modern' twist.


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Skub wrote: Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:57 pm How about a lockdown restoration project? Would you hand over £3550 for this one?


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1974-Kawasak ... 0009.m1982


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Interesting and I keep looking at similar beasties. Fortunately, I'm a garage short of buying this!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Suzuki-GT250 ... Sw5Clf8b3J

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Mad prices!
I had one of the ram air earlier versions,plus a Hustler which was earlier again.
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GT250 was the worst bike I ever owned, Im sure someone must have previously bent it, it was horrible. Owned it for about 5 weeks.
Love the old T500 and also the little old T200 invader, fantastic engines.
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G.P wrote: Sun Jan 24, 2021 10:47 pm GT250 was the worst bike I ever owned,
You've not really put the effort in have you.
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“this was an experimental radial engine made by German tuning ace: Rudi Rupp in the early 60's. Rudi was know for amazing two stroke tuning.. many championship bikes were created using technology he pioneered. Seen here in an R60/? frame for show purposes. I don't think it actually ran.”
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inewham wrote: Sun Jan 24, 2021 11:20 pm Got any more info? My google-fu is weak today
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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Sun Jan 24, 2021 10:50 pm
G.P wrote: Sun Jan 24, 2021 10:47 pm GT250 was the worst bike I ever owned,
You've not really put the effort in have you.
Try a Norton Jubilee for size. It was actually a much worse bike than the GT250 but it was my first bike when 17 yrs old so I had zero expectation for the Norton. I'd owned an RD250C before the GT 250 and the GT250 was shite by comparison.
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It's an original (ish) Z900, not a Z900RS, the GS Thou is spoiled by the tail pipe
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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:18 am the GS Thou is spoiled by the tail pipe
Maybe it is but it would be the bike I'd choose of the three if given a choice :D

The early gs's , 550 and 750 were my first il4... Even though they were older bikes when I owned them to a young man barely out of puberty they were fantastic.

I may not think the same if I rode one today but its good to have memories :lol:
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Scuffmark wrote: Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:11 am
Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:18 am the GS Thou is spoiled by the tail pipe
Maybe it is but it would be the bike I'd choose of the three if given a choice :D

The early gs's , 550 and 750 were my first il4... Even though they were older bikes when I owned them to a young man barely out of puberty they were fantastic.

I may not think the same if I rode one today but its good to have memories :lol:
As standard bikes, the Honda was the fastest and best handling but least reliable, the Z the most reliable but worst handling, the GS somewhere in between, if I had to choose one to ride it would be the Honda because it's the most modern feeling, which is hardly surprising given it's the newest bike there, then the GS, then the Z.
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Shiny stuff to keep any polisher busy.


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A scary Beemer.


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i don't like that headlight fairing, but the rest.... yeah, bloody marvelous !
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weeksy wrote: Mon Jan 25, 2021 6:07 pm i don't like that headlight fairing, but the rest.... yeah, bloody marvelous !
Yup.
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Puts me in mind of the ducati desmo 250 I nearly bought as a 17 year old. The deal didn't happen because the chap who's bike it was wouldn't put the back wheel on it so I COULD TRY IT! £30 he wanted too! I saw the said desmo a few months later when the poor unfortunate who bought it was jumping up and down on the kickstart but to no effect I only ever saw it running after a push start.
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Ok then can someone explain this to me!

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