Suzuki GT250 Part 5
Having spent a couple of hours cleaning up the wheel hubs I came in for a cup of Nescafe’s finest and had a quick look on ebay to see if anything new had been listed. Sure enough a minty looking…
Restorations
Suzuki GT250 Part 4 – Time to get tanked up
I hate doing bodywork. I am not very good at it, it takes far too much time and it’s just not nice. I knew the tank was going to be a challenge as it had a massive dent in it…
Suzuki GT250 – Part 3
The box of brake components I blagged on ebay came the other day so I set about checking out exactly what I had, I was rather chuffed. There were enough parts to build 3 good front calipers and 2 master…
Suzuki GT250 Part 2 – Surprise Surprise!
I took the knackered old battery out of the bike t’other day and discovered why I had such a big fat reliable spark. Behind the battery was a Newtronic Systems electronic ignition controller – hence no points to corrode and…
Suzuki GT250 Part One – Introduction
Round these parts they have a saying – he needs to give his head a wobble. It’s used at times when somebody has either done something really daft or hasn’t done something that they really should have done. I think,…
Junkyard dog 28 – Really, this is the end. Honest.
OK so the last episode was supposed to have been the last one but some bits worthy of putting finger to keyboard cropped up and I realised I hadn’t talked about the future of the bike and so on. The…
Junkyard Dog Episode 27 They think it’s all over – it is now! Sort of…
Now I am very much on the home run, the only two jobs left to do are the seat and exhaust. It has so far taken almost exactly 4 months of working on and off to get this far. The…
Junkyard Dog 26 – Make your bloody mind up
While I was looking at how the seat was fitting I tried to imagine it covered in black. As I did that I decided there was simply too much black at the back and that the rear mudguard should be…
Junkyard Dog 25 – Wooden tit be loverly
After much pondering regarding the seat arrangement I concluded that a wooden base rather than a metal base would be more practical. It’s a lot easier to fasten material to wood rather than metal with staples being the obvious choice….
Make or Break? Suzuki GSX-R750L Slingshot
Each week Scottie will tempt you with one of his handpicked used bike gems. He don’t just read the Bikes For Sale ads, he buys em! ‘What’s the story morning glory?’ Freshly purchased blind, and over that ‘well known’ auction…