Piccies, Anyone like old Suzukis?

Beamish · Post by **Beamish** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 12:30 pm

My mate has just finished restoring his old GSX1100. I think his choice of colours are spot on. It looks great. Oh yeh had to stick some of the Blade on there as well.

tony.wilde1 · Post by **tony.wilde1** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:14 pm

cool !!!

mate if mine has a pop up headlight katana...1986...love them old bikes!!

yorkylancs · Post by **yorkylancs** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 6:58 pm

Well smart!Used to have a old GSX550 with sidewinder sidecar,did my test on it way back when.Hope he sorted them dodgy suzi electrics,mine taught me how to bumpstart a bike properly,usually every morning.Nice bike mate!

Beamish · Post by **Beamish** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 7:30 pm

yorkylancs wrote:Well smart!Used to have a old GSX550 with sidewinder sidecar,did my test on it way back when.Hope he sorted them dodgy suzi electrics,mine taught me how to bumpstart a bike properly,usually every morning.Nice bike mate!

He replaced the ageing lecky with electronic ignition, cant remember the details but its a well known fix.

RedStormV · Post by **RedStormV** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 8:38 pm

FirestormMike wrote:I weighed about the same as the moon and had a bald back tyre

Bloody hell .... you've lost a sh1te load of weight since then - and your hairs grown back

What's your secret?

Guy at work has an old Katana (non runner ATM) not sure of details, but suggested he get it running and flebay it rather than sell as it is - or break it and sell the bits - likely to make heaps more that way.

From what I can gather - some of the Katana's are becoming quite collectable - goodness only knows why

Perhaps cos it was the forerunner to the Gixxer?

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Rossi, really messes with your mind!!!!! Muaahahahaha

LotusSevenMan · Post by **LotusSevenMan** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 9:50 pm

Now I love the triple strokers.
Always drooled over the GT750Triple, Liquid Cooled Suzuki.
They may not handle, have lots of horsepower but they are a great kick back to my youth when I drooled over them then too!!!
LSM

LotusSevenMan · Post by **LotusSevenMan** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 11:12 pm

TIMBO.
LOL.
You lucky bu**er!!!!
Yeah, I heard they are not good, but with modern rubber they are 'acceptable' !

RedStormV · Post by **RedStormV** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 11:55 pm

Timbo wrote:LSM, i used to have a kettle,

Now you're talking, my mate's still got the Kettle he bought when they first came out.... bloody lovely it is too, proper mint

Still has original pipes for it but hasn't run with them for years, just expansion pipes - lovely sound and corners better, although they still get grounded!

Went to Manx on it last year, just sat behind him listening to the intake roar and breathing in the 2-stroke fumes - bloody excellent

Always wanted one ever since I had me GT125 Ram Air

Much preferred it to the Kwakker, mainly cos of aesthetics - middle pot splitting to 2 and a nice balanced look to the silencers, rather than the lopsided Kwak

Wouldn't mind a 380 but they're getting rare as hens teeth

[edit] Feck me look at this beauty!
E-bay GT380
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Rossi, really messes with your mind!!!!! Muaahahahaha

LotusSevenMan · Post by **LotusSevenMan** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:08 am

How odd you should say that !

I have a 380 sort of lined up.
There a bit of work to do to it (like the seating etc) but a nice project eh?

What do ya think?

RedStormV · Post by **RedStormV** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:00 am

Yeah that looks nice, a deffinate classic is that

Very tidy looking apart from seat as mentioned, at least it's not a rusty wreck

Suppose mine's just going to have to wait

other bikes on the shopping list before that and I ain't got room for all of what I already have at the moment

I feel a house move or a garage extension coming on

bikerpiker · Post by **bikerpiker** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:14 am

Very nice

...i thing is ,the way i remember it in the early eightys,the 2 -strokes wern't particularly sought after,certainly no more than 4 strokes,prob less so

Mate had a gt380,wifes uncle had a gt500..i had rd125 and 250,but to most of us in those days,it was just filling the gap before moving up to a big 4-stroke.
I Did own a Gs550 , Gs650 Kat, Gs850, but can remember around the same time a few mates riding 250/350 lc's.
Wish i'd kept my SS50 and AP50 ,when i see what they're fetchin now

LotusSevenMan · Post by **LotusSevenMan** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 11:10 am

Look at this though.
Georgeous I think. Like my old GT250 only double the capacity!!!!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :IT&ih=005

bikerpiker · Post by **bikerpiker** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 11:29 am

Aye...i agree, it's a beauty,same colour as wifes(girlfriend then

)uncles .
I had a mate that had a Suzi ts250,a right old one with chrome mudguards,i always liked it,i aint seen one like it for years

Also had a mate with KH250,but again,they all made the move up to large capacity Honda cb's,suzuki GS's etc.

iggy1966 · Post by **iggy1966** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 12:07 pm

Very smart, as an ex GS1000 I have a soft spot for the old muscle bikes.

RedstormV, just out of interest, how much would your mate want for the Katatna????????

RedStormV · Post by **RedStormV** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:57 pm

Dunno mate,

I'll ask him tomoz and get a phone number for you if you like.

Can't arrange much else as I'm only in tomorrow AM then off for 2!

He's a bit of an odd stick but he's OK