Old Faithful
An old photograph of probably the most useful and robust bike I ever owned. Hung on to this Kawasaki GT550G3 for about twenty years and used it for rider instruction. It already had around 70,000 miles (110,000Km) on the clock, when this photo was taken in 1996. I found the speedo disconnected when I bought it from the hands of a courier at a knock-down price so I reckon it had travelled further. Last time I checked online it was still trundling around at 35 years old.
This picture was taken just before a 2,500 mile run over six days.
Strangely, the bike remained the same but my leathers seemed to shrink as time went by!
I must have liked GT550s, for a while, I had 3 at the same time and made my longest 24 hour trip on one, somewhere around 860 miles (a distance definitely not to be recommended).
Old Faithful
An old photograph of probably the most useful and robust bike I ever owned. Hung on to this Kawasaki GT550G3 for about twenty years and used it for rider instruction. It already had around 70,000 miles (110,000Km) on the clock, when this photo was taken in 1996. I found the speedo disconnected when I bought it from the hands of a courier at a knock-down price so I reckon it had travelled further. Last time I checked online it was still trundling around at 35 years old.
This picture was taken just before a 2,500 mile run over six days.
Strangely, the bike remained the same but my leathers seemed to shrink as time went by!
I must have liked GT550s, for a while, I had 3 at the same time and made my longest 24 hour trip on one, somewhere around 860 miles (a distance definitely not to be recommended).