On 30 Apr, 12:55, A.Cl...@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk wrote:
> Thus spake prawn (prawnM...@prawn.me.uk) unto the assembled multitudes:
>
> > On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:36:17 +0100, Austin Shackles wrote:
> >> outside the caff on Saturday...
>
> >>http://www.roman-road.co.uk/temp/DSC00249.jpg
> >>http://www.roman-road.co.uk/temp/DSC00250.jpg
> > Lovely. I spotted one of those at the Rye Classic show last year - it was
> > slightly different insofar as it had a space age plastic thingy shrouding
> > the speedo and rev counter.
>
> ISTR that was how the original RE5 was attired. That's what it had when
> Bike magazine tested it anwyay back in 197?. Could these be replacement
> clocks on this bike or did Suzuki change the design?
>
Yes, Suzuki abandoned the toilet-roll clock housing and just stuck
GT750 Kettle clocks on later bikes. This one's a US import, too.