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Vintage Japanese Motorcycles
Welcome to my Japanese Vintage Bike area. I have a passion for motorcycles of the seventies especially of Japanese manufacture. I now have a small collection of bikes of the era limited only by space, they are mostly bikes I wanted or had at the time or are rare and interesting such as the Yamaha L5T. The only modern bike I currently have is the Honda Hawk NT650 (RC31) which is hardly modern considering it was manufactured in 1988. This much underrated bike is my day to day vehicle and being a Honda has never let me down.
As a teenager in the seventies my first ride on a bike was on a Honda C70 (bought by my mother, who you could say introduced me to the pleasures of traveling on two wheels without having to rotate the limbs) to which I immediately bit the bug and within weeks of my sixteenth birthday I was a proud owner of yes you guessed it - A Yamaha FS1E, in my opinion the bike that defined the seventies, do you remember hoards of these things buzzing around your local high street ridden by spotty faced youths clad in Levi flared jeans flapping in the wind, I do, I was one of them. Not in my collection as of yet but will hopefully add one when prices come down to a more reasonable level, £3000 plus for a mint one is a bit much, I'm sure prices will soften soon. I was eight stone at the age of 16 and could only squeeze 45 mph flat out, now my weight is nearer 15 stone I doubt whether the thing could even pull the skin off a rice pudding, oh the ravages of time.
Below are the bikes I currently own or have recently sold, they are all in excellent to concourse condition as I'm always tinkering with the things. The most important thing is originality, this can be quite difficult to achieve at times but searching the Internet for parts has become another pastime.
If you have any questions or comments Email Me Here
Current collection
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Wanted Suzuki GT380/GT550
If you have a Suzuki GT380 or maybe a Suzuki GT550 in immaculate or near immaculate original/restored condition and want to sell email , please supply high quality/definition photos if possible.
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