Katana Owners Club U.K.

Well, another project arrived:
I now have two GT200 X5s, so I should have enough parts (and a crucial V5) to make one good one.

The garage is full so something had to give:
I promised Nicola that the TS would be out of the dining room as soon as the X5 is finished! Or summer comes and I can put it in my leaky shed.

My wife would kill me.

I used to do that pre Cassidy now the only wrenching I can do indoor is putting together crap from Wafair.

Yeah the same here, I can have as many bikes as I want so long as no part of them enters the house... fair enough I suppose.

I had an X5 from 2013 to 2016. I bought it from a dealer (ouch) who said it was fully restored including full engine rebuild, but after it wouldn't start, I took it a apart and found the engine hadn't been touched internally (way to much carbon on the pistons etc plus they were a pattern one side and Suzuki the other) and the issue was the centre oil seal. Anyway I got some money back but not enough as it turned out to cover the rebore and crank rebuild. Nice little bike but the RD200DX I had back in the 80's was better!

How is the TS185? It looks mint, so good work there.
As I've sold my TZR250 I have a gap in the garage and some cash burning a hole in my pocket!!! I sort of fancy a TS185 or TS250 (prefer earlier type rather if possible - keep meaning to have a 70's trial bike everytime I watch "On Any Sunday"!)) keeping it Suzuki and also a couple of my moped mates this way already have a Kawasaki F7 and early Yamaha DT250.
So if anyone knows someone thinking of selling one maybe let me know.

Thanks

UB

The TS is great fun. Obviously, I spent far too much time and money on it, but it is a keeper.

I think the 250 is a fair bit heavier, which may negate any power increase. But the pre-ER 185/250 models are good lookers in my eyes.

my mrs doesnt mind me having a bike in the house, my bsa is on the sideboard and my side table is a kat engine, theres a couple outside, her suzuki, my beemer and an ancint honda twin festering away behind the shed, then theres the small shed with an old bsa and a yam v twin plus pushbikes, and the big shed with all the kats and other brit iron. one day im hoping to have a kat hung on the lounge wall but its probably going to cost me a kitchen to get permission....

I built my TR500 race bike in the back bedroom which at the time also held my lathe, milling machine and all my tools
All are now housed in my workshop

I built my Benelli 750 Sei in my sisters bedroom. She had left home 6 years before, but fate decided that she returned as the bike was nearing completion.
Understandably, she told me to get it out of her bedroom ASAP.
I told her I couldn't move it before the exhausts (all six of them) had been fitted. And I couldn't afford them at the present time.
So I took her to Speedscene in Huddersfield (then a Benelli importer / dealer) and she purchased a full set of used pipes for me.
She got her bedroom back, and I didn't have to fit the 6-1 system that I already had in the garage.............

I have a two car garage and my car is tiny (for America) and Wifie parks on the street, so I have quite a bit of room for my cycles, down to two now, gave two away. Sharings caring.

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Sun Dec 13, 2020 10:05 pm

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.......Speedscene in Huddersfield (then a Benelli importer / dealer).............

That takes me back! Was a student at Huddersfield Poly in the early ‘80’s. Riding my Ducati 450MkIII and later the Plastic Maggot.

We used to pop into Speedscene to drool over the Benelli 6’s

Kryten, is that the Benelli Sei?