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I miss stuff like that! At least MY bike was reliable, the worst on road repairs I ever had to do was a tire plug and a headlight bub. Pics from the good old days:

PEI


Ohio


Lake Placid


Florida


West Virginia

how many miles have you put on that Kawasaki?

The odometer broke in the late 80's at 50,000 and I finally got rid of it in 2005. My guess would be 150,000-200,000? I didn't own a car from '85-'96.

The pics I used when I sold it:





1983 GPz550. Just a great old school bike, we're talking about things most you guys never heard of like: carbs, air cooled, choke and stuff like that. With the mods I had it probably was about 75HP in a package <400lbs. It was pretty damn quick, would run all day and could take you to the far side of 200kph. I probably should be dead.

Looks great but it needed work and someone to ride it more ofetn than I could. The guy who bought it bored it out to a 615cc and put a Yosh pipe on it. That would be the FOURTH exaust it has gone through. The flat black pipe in the early pics was just that "a pipe"; flames used to shoot out and it looked VERY cool not to mention noisy like an out of tune Cessna taking off.