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Tag Archives: GT750
The Annual Updates
It is an annual event, and this year was perhaps a bit larger than usual. In addition to the ongoing changes and small additions I do as a part of normal house-keeping, I also do rebuilds on sections of the … Continue reading
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Tagged GT750, Kettle, RealClassic, rebuild, restoration, Suzuki, wasserbuffel, Water Bottle, Water Buffalo
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Setting the Anchours
I realise that ‘anchour’ is an archaic form of ‘anchor’ , but as it could be said that a drum brake is archaic when compared to a disc, I’m going to go with it ! This article then is about … Continue reading
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Tagged 1972, 2ls, brakes, GT750, Kettle, rebuild, restoration, Suzuki, wasserbuffel, Water Bottle, Water Buffalo
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Adding Some Kwak to my Suzy
Some time ago I wrote a post about repairing the oil injector lines used on the GT750, and indeed the sort of oil injector line used on most of the late 1960 through 1970’s Suzuki two stroke models. You can … Continue reading
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Tagged GT750, oil injection lines, rebuild, restoration, Suzuki, wasserbuffel, Water Bottle, Water Buffalo
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It Had a Hard Life
The build continues. As mentioned previously, the frame had some damage that needed repair, and Jonathan and Derek at Trillion Industries did a great job. The area around the brake pivot post has been completely rebuilt, reinforced and I suppose … Continue reading
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Tagged 1972, GT750, Kettle, rebuild, restoration, Suzuki, wasserbuffel, Water Bottle, Water Buffalo
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‘Regal Red’ Rides Again !
Well – that is the plan at least ! 🙂 With “Oily Purple” on the road and running well, it was time to start work on one of the two sequentially numbered bikes. These are about 3000 frame numbers younger … Continue reading
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Tagged 1972, GT750, Kettle, rebuild, restoration, Suzuki, wasserbuffel, Water Bottle, Water Buffalo
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OJB on Facebook
I’m not completely certain this will be a good idea, but I have gone ahead and set up an OJB page on Facebook. You can take a look at it via this link. It is ‘public’ so you don’t actually … Continue reading
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Tagged BLOG, Facebook, GT500, GT550, GT750, Kettle, rebuild, restoration, Suzuki, Water Bottle, Water Buffalo
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Airbox Gasket
A fellow I know in the UK by the name of Ian Beardsley (an excellent first name by the way 🙂 ) has been making reproduction bits and pieces for the Suzuki GT750 for some time now. I bought a … Continue reading
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Tagged astrax, GT750, Ian Beardsley, Kettle, rebuild, restoration, Suzuki, wasserbuffel, Water Bottle, Water Buffalo
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The Flasher
So your turn signal/indicator relay just exited for its place in electronics heaven, and as a result you now have a distinct lack of flash about your machine. You can resort to arm waving, but I suspect most younger drivers … Continue reading
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Tagged GT750, Kettle, rebuild, restoration, signal relay repair, Suzuki, wasserbuffel, Water Bottle, Water Buffalo
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The Oily Purple
You will recall from an earlier post (see this link) , that the first of the three 1972 GT750’s I am restoring was to be in ‘oily rag’ condition, so no new paint, no new fresh chrome but rebuilt/refurbished mechanicals … Continue reading
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Tagged 1972, Accent, ELZ2Coil, engine, Gauges, GT750, rebuild, restoration, Suzuki, wasserbuffel, Water Bottle, Water Buffalo
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Carried Away
I admit that very occasionally I do get carried away – or at least perhaps allow ambition to get in the way of common sense. In 2015 I picked up a couple more 1972 model GT750’s and suddenly found I … Continue reading
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Tagged 1972, GT750, GT750J, rebuild, restoration, Suzuki, wasserbuffel, Water Bottle, Water Buffalo
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