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These are my two beauties. One’s a 1996 Honda XRV600 Transalp. It’s done nearly 60,000 miles now and is still such a lovely, comfortable bike to ride. The other is a 1982 Yamaha RD250LC; bog standard unrestored and a French import. It came over here about 16 years ago. French and UK bikes were the same specifications, same bhp! Just a little info: only 253 LC250S were sold in France from 1980 to 1983, so she is rare from the off! She’s only done 12k. I’ve also been told by the previous owner that the engine’s never been apart, but who knows? I have even got the luggage rack that was offered by Yamaha a.
She’s a keeper!
MARK WILLIAMSON’S 1983 SUZUKI GSX750E
This is my 1983 GSX750E; it’s my first project and I have had immense fun building it. I took a risk and bought it on ebay last November after just seeing a video of it running and paid for delivery from the north east to Cheshire. Overall it was mechanically sound. It hadn’t been on the road since 1994 and consequently it was hard to start, but ran like the proverbial dog. I stripped, cleaned and balanced the carbs which cured that. The tank had a big matt black stripe up the middle which, when I spilt some fuel on it, came off so I got a local company (T&M Specialist Coatings Ltd) to respray it. I know the decals are the wrong ones for the year but for me this is the best ooking paint scheme they did.
At first glance you could be forgiven for th hinking the front end is of a bare 750ES. H However, the round headlight and anti-dive fo orks are all included in the manual and parts c catalogue so I’m choosing to assume (as it was im mported from Japan in 1988) that this was a model for their home market. It’s not show s standard, but it’s a usable beautiful classic that rides as good as any bike made today. I love it and am proud of what I have achieved. These bikes are a much overlooked classic; when will CMM do a feature on them?