Excellent Fearfax article on Ken McIntosh - with pix!

[HenryDorsetCase]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/bikes/75432144/kiwi-mcintoshsuzuki-sets-postclassic-racing-world-alight

Cor blimey but I have the horn for those big old Suzukis.... comes of having seen them at an impressionable age.

The Manx are OK too, I guess.

[AllanB]

Yeah I always rated them - watched them powering around when I was younger. Wonder what a replica costs $50?

Good to see he is getting the recognition he deserves.


So just how many of those big Suzuki donors are around in NZ? Not many I'd say. No doubt the USA has a supply of low mileage ones ....

Though they have not been picked on as customs like the CB750 various small Hondas and air cooled BMW's - yet.

[Grumph]

So just how many of those big Suzuki donors are around in NZ? Not many I'd say. No doubt the USA has a supply of low mileage ones ....

Though they have not been picked on as customs like the CB750 various small Hondas and air cooled BMW's - yet.

Not a lot left now. Here anyway. On a US based GS forum there are always idiots turning them into bobbers....At least that's lowering their value which makes them more attractive as donors....

[dipshit]

See Graeme Crosby is doing Moriwaki replicas...

www.graemecrosby.co.nz/shop/Bikes+For+Sale/Crosby+Moriwaki+Replica+-+TTF1+197879+Kawasaki/x_sku/MCR003.html

[AllanB]

See Graeme Crosby is doing Moriwaki replicas...

www.graemecrosby.co.nz/shop/Bikes+For+Sale/Crosby+Moriwaki+Replica+-+TTF1+197879+Kawasaki/x_sku/MCR003.html

Nice. Add some lights, turn signals .......

[nzspokes]

Nice. Add some lights, turn signals .......

Want. Cool.

[Voltaire]

Yeah I always rated them - watched them powering around when I was younger. Wonder what a replica costs $50?

Good to see he is getting the recognition he deserves.


So just how many of those big Suzuki donors are around in NZ? Not many I'd say. No doubt the USA has a supply of low mileage ones ....

Though they have not been picked on as customs like the CB750 various small Hondas and air cooled BMW's - yet.

Hack away I say, makes the remaining ones worth more. Personally I dislike the brown leather seat, exhaust wrap " look at me" wanna be cafes and bobbers but that's what

grumpy old bastards always say.

My favourite abortion is:

http://www.ducati.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/DuBobProR.jpg

[Bass]

Once had a very brief conversation with Ken on suspension and setting it up. Some of the comments he made required that he was able to measure spring rates, so I asked him how he did it.

"Easy" he said. "Drill press and bathroom scales".

Love the elegant ingenuity.

[sidecar bob]

Once had a very brief conversation with Ken on suspension and setting it up. Some of the comments he made required that he was able to measure spring rates, so I asked him how he did it.

"Easy" he said. "Drill press and bathroom scales".

Love the elegant ingenuity.

Well clearly he was taking the piss.
Here's how he really does it. Copying down the spring number off my bike straight after it lapped faster than his a few weeks ago.

[Bass]

Well clearly he was taking the piss.
Here's how he really does it. Copying down the spring number off my bike straight after it lapped faster than his a few weeks ago.

Chuckle.

Well, he never said that was the only way that he did it