Katana Owners Club U.K.

Just a heads up to say that the November issue of classic motorcycle mechanics magazine on sale on the 16th October is a Katana special, there's a head to head between the original bike and the 2019 remix and lots of other Katana related articles. P.s I have no connection with the publication, just noticed it when I was looking through this months issue at the supermarket (admit it ,we all do that)

CMM seem to be a little behind on this. PSPB did something similar and have a NuKat that they are modding/upgrading. But I’ll buy it anyway.....

i'll pick one up at stafford next week and have a look.

Shame they couldn't mention the actual UK Katana Owners club or at least a link, I thought CMM were trying to be a bit more proactive with clubs? After all we do cover ALL Kats whether air cooled or water cooled (or oil boilers in a special) and even the new one has a place.

They might get a letter from "the Teapot"...

considering the help we gave their former editor with his own katana build a few years back, a mention might have been nice. but, there you go, thats th media for you.

As I may have mentioned before I believe we are persona non grata as far a CMM go, for years we did articles for them gave them info attended their shows , but when ever they phoned me to get us to pay £100's to have a page advertisement for our club I would decline their " offer" .
What would it have achieved, people who read CMM are generally those who don't join clubs unless it is VJMC ...just to get the discounts .

CMM is the only mag I buy every month but it has in my opinion taken a dive since the previous editor the late Rob Gibson passed away. It was I think his Katana mentioned previously ? I know the “classic” thing is a rolling collection but I draw a limit on including R1’s GSXR1000’s and Ducati Panigali’s. It’s saving grace is through writers like Steve Cooper and a couple of others who’s name I can’t recall. One guy bought a Kawa H2 triple and slated it as slow and didn’t handle, his other bike is a Busa I believe!

yep, rod gibson was a nice guy, i had a lot of contact with him when he built the kat. if you find one of the articles, take a look in the little box where he credited his helpers, we were in it every month! cmm wasnt the same after he passed away.

Letter (well email) sent to CMM explaining the error of their ways...

Well CMM came through and my email / letter with link to the club are in this months edition, so thanks to them for that.

Kryten - scruffy kat gets a look in, all be it in a fairly small image.

UB