johnr Posted June 6, 2015 Posted June 6, 2015 (edited) just bought the mrs her first suzuki. after years and years riding to work on a series of worthy but bland step thus made by that firm that we dont mention here, ive wanted her to get her test passed so she can get a decent bike. the local training school guy said that her riding and roadsense are fine, but she needs to get a bike with a clutch and get used to using it before doing her test. so, if she needed a decent 125, then it had to be a suzuki. so here it is, just need to chuck it through the mot first, then i think it might lend itself to a coat of 13l and a blue/grey seat cover....its not glam, its not that trick, but it is suzuki, it is aircooled and it is the correct period. and lets face it, if youre from the uk at least, its how we all started out if we arent old enough to have passed a test on a 1921 grindley peerless combination of some other shaky old tat.er, ok, so when i figure how to add pics.... Edited June 6, 2015 by johnr Quote
johnr Posted June 6, 2015 Author Posted June 6, 2015 greater minds than ours will be along shortly im sure... Quote
Guest YoshiJohnny Posted June 6, 2015 Posted June 6, 2015 Pic thing I managed using the proboard... add pics to that then copy the pic URL and post here... it's hopefully going to get easier but until Jellie gets back from fucking around at the TT it's the easiest way I found... Quote
FOD Posted June 6, 2015 Posted June 6, 2015 Of course, some of us are 'just about' old enough to have taken our test on an aircooled 250 Suzuki.....(X7, natch!)FodAhhh...great to see old Dino back... 3 Quote
johnr Posted June 6, 2015 Author Posted June 6, 2015 fod, you dont need to tell us, we already know you are old. we just didnt want to wake you from your nap, we know how cranky you get when youve not had 40 winks after nursey gives you your medication.... 1 Quote
Katana Posted June 7, 2015 Posted June 7, 2015 I be honest FOD not many are old enough to rember that bygone era me included I went threw some dark years on that rattly make we don't talk about till I discovered the GS 750 at the age of 17 oh the joy of it all Quote
kenty Posted July 4, 2015 Posted July 4, 2015 got one of them GS125's in the back yard for her indoors as well ,,, must get around to fixing it .......sometime .. Quote
Funkymonkracing Posted July 6, 2015 Posted July 6, 2015 Had a mate who had one of those in the 80s. He ground away the footrests that much he had to replace them !! Nutter ! Quote
johnr Posted July 6, 2015 Author Posted July 6, 2015 theyre a nice little thing. i wanted her to get through her test so she needs to sell the step thru and ride with a clutch for a bit to get used to it. she cant wait to get out on it now. Quote
spondonturbo Posted July 6, 2015 Posted July 6, 2015 you do realise that once Sue has passed her test, she'll be pinching the keys for your other bikes Quote
johnr Posted July 6, 2015 Author Posted July 6, 2015 and she is welcome to any of them, she knows that. it might even give me the kick up the arse to get back in the shed of an evening. 1 Quote
Havoc Posted July 6, 2015 Posted July 6, 2015 I still have a small collection of GS125 pistons with valves sticking out of them at various jaunty angles, 'Smelly Barry' was not a mechanically sympathetic rider..... Quote
Gpz1100_Convert Posted July 6, 2015 Posted July 6, 2015 I am struggling with the pics thing As did I.. what i found worked was forget the actual embed links.Go into the actual picture till it fully loads then right click and copy the picture location.Then bottom right of posting bit you 'Insert other media' and 'Insert media from URL', paste the copied location to that box and hey presto. Even worked on my onedrive (which is free! and works on just about all smartphones).Hope that helps. If it doesn't I doubt I'll be much help though as I got lucky after 10 tries using other methods.Mark Quote
canamant Posted July 6, 2015 Posted July 6, 2015 Got one of them myself too. Junior trained on it before doing his A2 on a school bike. Bodywork available new at ridiculously cheap prices at patternparts.net. Quote
surplus 6 Posted July 9, 2015 Posted July 9, 2015 been after a cheap 125/250 like that for work duties myself. good little bikes Quote
johnr Posted July 9, 2015 Author Posted July 9, 2015 found this one on preloved, and got it for 350 quid, so thought it was a bargain. Quote
Beevis Posted July 14, 2015 Posted July 14, 2015 I had one too an '83 A reg in black. I can even remember the reg A348LVS. I got pissed off with cycling to work so bought it off my brothers mate with 600 miles on it in early '84, I was one of the first lot to have to have a 125cc. Quote
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