The GPZ lives again.

2 years it's been sitting there looking like a very ugly and smashed
garden ornament. Charged the battery, turned on the fuel, 20 seconds of
button pushing and it fires into a semblence of life.

Now I have to put the Motad exhaust and waterpump gaskets on before
scaring the locals further. At the moment there's no cooolant in it and
just a set of very bent downpipes masquerading as an exhaust system.
The rebuilt forks and fairing are back on, the brakes have been rebuilt
and all electrics are plugged up and functioning as they should. A new
rear tyre and chain/sprockets should see it ready for an MOT test.

It will live again soon, hopefully by the end of the month.

 

Fuckin hell Loz! You make it sound like the work of Frankenstein! I was
expecting everything to go dark, thunder and lightning and so on.....

 

Paging PiP for a humorous account of the storm over Pixie Central


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Robbo

Trophy 1200 1998
BotaFOF #19. E.O.S.M 2001/2002/2003/2004.
B.O.S.M 2003, 2004, 2005
FURSWB#1 KotL..YTC449
PM#7
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Tell Pip to keep his bloody nose out...

errr as you were

 

RobbieWirral says...

If you'd seen it when I first brought it home, you'd have questioned
why I was bothering. The work that's gone into it has been along the
lines of building a Frankenstein monster. It really didn't look like it
had been worth an 80 mile round trip to collect it. Most of the front
end plastics are still lying in a Berkshire field. The rad was trashed,
both front footrest hagers were destroyed, the fairing frame was at
every angle but the correct one, both exhausts were pointing at very
odd angles, the rear subframe was twisted and the forks looked like
bananas. It had been laid on its side in a muddy ditch for 2 days after
an 80mph bouncing off the side of a 4x4.

It took me about 2 days just to clean it and assess what the real
damage was, and I decided to lump it together as a work hack for
minimal money. The bike cost me 100 quid 2 years ago, and I've only
spent about 350 including buying it to get it this far. Another 200 and
it'll be perfect, but I don't care about looks so I'll maybe spend half
that and just get it roadworthy for now. Cosmetic shit can wait until I
can be bothered.

 

Bear says...

Why? You looking to buy a GPZ500 then? It'll suit you, with the nice
big purple graphics it has.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Lozzo amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

[GPZ500]

Congratulations

 

That's because you're a girl and sitting on fires to piss on 'em would burn
wouldn' it?

 

It probably saw you standing there with a spanner in your hand and
thought....no way.

 

It'll be a fun bike, are you still after an off road bike? Or has
project GPZ replaced that?

 

Muck says...

For the moment the GPZ will have to do, I doubt it will be fun, but
that's not really what I'm after from it. Functionality above all else
is the plan. I don't have the need or space for 3 bikes right now.
Maybe when I get tired of the GPZ I'll sell it and buy a 400cc trailie,
something like a ratty DRZ maybe.

 

It's a replacment for the RS then? I'd like another XBR500, I enjoyed
riding that... it had nice low down grunt. Wouldn't mind a trailie
myself, but those do tend to be a bit over priced for what they are.