Time to rebuild my old GPz
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:15 pm
So a new year is here and a (not so) young man's thoughts turn to.........................the next project !
So I dragged my old GPz 550 out of the shed determined to give it the rebuild I'd been promising to do for the last x years.
I bought my GPz550 brand new in '82 from Townsend's Motorcycles in Wallington (Surrey). It was my first sports bike and I loved it. We went through a lot together including a season of proddy racing in '85. Following a few "offs", I then re-sprayed it green and used it as my daily commute, but the years had taken their toll and the engine needing rebuilding so I took it off the road with a view to refreshing the engine and that's as far as I got.................until NOW !
On retrieving the poor old girl out of the shed, the first thing to hit me was the fact that I took it off the road in 1994 - 23 years ago ! To my eternal shame, it's been off the road more that it's been on it
Myself and a few Z owning friends are planning to go to the Coupes de moto Legande this year. down in Dijon in June. I had this idea that I'd rebuild the GPz in time for that trip. Having seen what I'm up against, I'm questioning my own sanity on that one.......................................
Anyway, to start with, here's a few photographs on what I'm looking at -
The day I bought my GPz
As pulled out of the shed
cobwebs are free !
Mark.
So I dragged my old GPz 550 out of the shed determined to give it the rebuild I'd been promising to do for the last x years.
I bought my GPz550 brand new in '82 from Townsend's Motorcycles in Wallington (Surrey). It was my first sports bike and I loved it. We went through a lot together including a season of proddy racing in '85. Following a few "offs", I then re-sprayed it green and used it as my daily commute, but the years had taken their toll and the engine needing rebuilding so I took it off the road with a view to refreshing the engine and that's as far as I got.................until NOW !
On retrieving the poor old girl out of the shed, the first thing to hit me was the fact that I took it off the road in 1994 - 23 years ago ! To my eternal shame, it's been off the road more that it's been on it
Myself and a few Z owning friends are planning to go to the Coupes de moto Legande this year. down in Dijon in June. I had this idea that I'd rebuild the GPz in time for that trip. Having seen what I'm up against, I'm questioning my own sanity on that one.......................................
Anyway, to start with, here's a few photographs on what I'm looking at -
The day I bought my GPz
As pulled out of the shed
cobwebs are free !
Mark.