GSXR750 mini review

For £150-odd, that looks reasonable. Check the swinging arm isn't
corroded through (driveshaft tunnel side).

As parts, no, it's worth **** all, because hardly anyone restores
CX500s.

 

I *nearly* bought a late[1] one off Gumtree last month.

Italian import, so in bonzer condition, but the frame number didn't
match the logbook. I was sure it was just a DVLA cock-up (it read the
same same as the engine number)(, but I didn't want the hassle, so left
it.

[1] The half decent one with the rubber engine mounts and the the better
calipers.

 

IIRC, he doesn't use machine tools much, if at all. He does it all by
hand, believe it or not.

 

Get Champ to race it.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

Jabiru.

I probably won't.

Yet.

 

30-45 large, 500 hours of tuits? You could buy something decent for half
that. Something like this, for instance:

http://www.afors.com/index.php?page=adview&adid=9443&imid=1

Robins are brilliant, fast planes. But I'd advise you to do what I did a
lot of years ago, after I had my licence: buy a block of, say, 10 or 20
hours, and see how long it takes you to fly them off. If you manage it in
under a year (which I didn't), join a group for a couple of years and work
up from there.

 

That reg looks familiar. When you collect it, see if the seller has a
big nose and is called Pete.
Even if it's the one I'm thinking of, it's unlikely to still be in his
possession.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

I like them even though they're a bit fragile. I can remember one of
the UK magazines (I'm sure it was Bike) racing one at the Bol and if
it survived that then there isn't too much wrong with them.

 

Vesa Kuhltalahti of Team Bike (sp?) raced an early FJ1100 in the open
class at some Bol or other. Definitely not a 1200.

He actually ground away the bottoms of the lower frame rails.

 

Team Bike Racing, the forerunner of Phase One Endurance. Fronted by
Bedfordian Howard Lees IIRC, who died in a plane crash. The later VF750
based Team Bike endurance bikes and all the spares were stolen from his
garage the night after the whole shebang was advertised as for sale.

--
Lozzo
Suzuki SV650S K5
Honda CBR600 FW trackbike
Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka
Suzuki GSXR750 L
Suzuki TS50X
Suzuki TS50X

 

My poxy little VN has four cam chains and only two pistons.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

<Boom boom>


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19