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Below is a picture of the bike being transported. It's useful to know you can get a GT250 into a Touran by just taking the handlebars off.

Finally got it home!


Looks like I'm going to have to clear some space in the garage!
I'm sure there's some work surface under there!


A quick assembly of the crankcase and cylinders, just for show. Got to stand it on the bin until I clear some space.


A search on the internet had identified the frame as a GT250M from 1975 with the engine being a GT250B from 1977/78.

My original bike was a silver 1976 GT250A and sice there are quite a few appropriate parts it seems sensible to rebuild it as an "A".

Need to work out some sort of plan but this weekend should see an inventory of all parts and hopefully a test rebuild of the engine to see what might be missing and perhaps a little bit of cleaning of the carnkcasecovers wouldn't do any harm. WSB at Donnington on Sunday so time will be a bit limited.

Beast in Car!

I received an MMS from my dad yesterday saying that he managed to get the 'beast' into the back of his VW Touran. Luckily all he had to remove were the handlebars.


The bike'll stay in the back of the car now until he get's home on Thursday night. Then the real fun will begin!

And so it begins...

After many, many, many....many years of searching my mam and I have finally found the same motorbike my dad had as a teenager, a Suzuki GT250. What's even better is there is loads to be done as the engine basically comes as a box of bits!


My dad will be picking up the bike tomorrow from Bristol, so early start for him but the sheer excitement should keep him going!

Hopefully, through encouragement ;-), I'll get my dad to keep this blog up to date with photos and news of the bikes development.