Part 2,
My first street bike, a quite modified '83 Suzuki GS-750E:
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**That open Bassani's exhaust note was so completely visceral!
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Part 2,
My first street bike, a quite modified '83 Suzuki GS-750E:
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**That open Bassani's exhaust note was so completely visceral!
Quite the unusual bike. . . . for this side of the Atlantic.66 Ducati Monza 250. Mine was an awful blue and silver repaint. It was given to me in non-running condition. The owner couldn't figure it out. I put the plug wire on and it fired right off. When I got a CB650 Custom the next year it took me a couple minutes to figure out the shifter and brake were on opposite sides from the Ducati.
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I always wanted to ride a GTS. Never found one in the wild. A local Yamatech said that there was a warehouse in CA with bunches of new non-currents for sale. He said they were great on the highway, but the front swingarm made for heavy steering around town.
i had a new gts1000 when they arrived in the UK in 93 had it for 8 yrs and regretted selling it, so bought this one 8 years ago so 16 years in total with gts love them. my first one in 1993 had oem luggage could not get that when i bought this blue oneAlthough the GTS never really caught on, it was an under rated bike. IIRC it had an EXUP engine, which was plenty powerful enough in its day and good handling, albeit slightly unusual.
I remember seeing one being raced at the TT? Steve Lindsell I believe.
Rode one of them good fun.no pics sorry.
but my first was a new 1978 yamaha dt175mx
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But is it cleaner !No kidding. I'm pretty sure all of my underwear is older than that bike.
It was around 1970 in SE Norway. We were clearing trees and brush in the forest for a "do it yourself" motocross track. All I can remember is one of my friends, at the time, riding to a dropoff and as he vanished over the edge, all we heard was him hollering "Gilera touring 50 C..C..EMm..m...m!", which was the bike he was riding at the time. He and his bike survived and we all had a good laugh..... Ah, those were the days.Mine was a Gilera 125cc Top Rally.
I actually left school, went to work to collect the money to buy it, and then went straight back to school again....
No wonder than 30 years later I chose the Super Tenere...