More of Dad's racing pics (1982)

[Bonez]

lemme see if I can find a pic of one --russle russle
Yep It was one of these

Almost bought one of those new. Wasn't too keen on the fancy dash and remote front brake resivour, which was actuated by a cable from the lever IIRC. Funny how little things affect purchase desisions. Got a 50,000km CX500 insted. Now if it was in the style of the original XJ650 things would have worked out a little different I think.

[FROSTY:Me]

funny that dude--It seems lots thought like that. I had a Jap??? import XJ750 for ages--looked like the 650 and it wasn't a homebuilt special -it had the electric tach like the 750 but to look at it youda sworn it was the 650
OK now Im showing me age

[LB]

Think Neville was sadly killed in a race in South Africa. Dont think they were ever sold elsewhere, but some did end up getting bought up and sent to Japan along with CB1100R etc.
PS the early "black pipers" were same shape as this.

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Neville was killed racing at Kyalami in Sth Africa. I think it was in about 1983?
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Neville was killed racing at Kyalami in Sth Africa. I think it was in about 1983?
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T'were exactly 1983.

[pete376403]

The aluminium monocoque Suzuki mentioned at the beginning of this thread was sitting (if it's still not there) in Maidstone Yamahas (Upper Hutt) showroom not that long ago. I was told the owner was looking for a set of genuine Yoshimura pistons to get it going again, after some bodge work had caused big time grief in the motor. I understand that the alloy bike wasn't as fast as the plastic one that came later, but lordy it was pretty - stunning workmanship.

[FROSTY:Me]

pete--Um the owner is "big mac" um sorta a relly of mine
Theres a bit more to that story than meets the eye

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Out with it, Frosty - stop being a tease...