Well, here we go, time to bore you all rigid with one of my infamous rebuild threads.
So, way back in the day, I was a snotty nosed 16 year old that had always been around motorbikes & had big plans of owning my own one day. I wasn't going to have a moped like my mates so started to save up the deposit for a Suzuki X7 250.
Christmas 1978 and, with the money from Christmas as well as the small amount I'd saved, I walked into Websters Motorcycles in Crewe with the hope of buying a new X7. Reality struck when the owner told me that I didn't have enough money & that the insurance would be over £100 TPFT (I was earning £25 a week then). They did have an alternative, it was £100 cheaper at £675 & the insurance was a lot cheaper, so, deposit put down, HP documents signed, enter into my life, a blue Suzuki X5 200 Reg number SMB163V.
I had to wait 3 months before I could pick her up, so spent every day walking past the showroom looking at my new bike in the window until, on 2nd March 1979 I walked in, picked up the keys & rode off into the sunset. No CBT, no training, just get on & ride off. This started my proper love affair with motorcycling.
Fast forward nearly 40 years & I saw an advert on Ebay, a 1979 Suzuki GT200 in pieces for £350, which didn't sell. I made contact with the owner & secured the deal for £300 & collected it a few days later from Lancashire.
It came in handy being in pieces, it fitted straight into the back of the car
, but I was taking a massive risk because I couldn't tell if everything was there
To be continued...............