Into... Me... AS50 and GS500

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joolstacho
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Suzuki 2-Strokes: AS50, GS500, GT500, ex GSXR750 slabbie
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Into... Me... AS50 and GS500

Post by joolstacho »

Just a little 'wotcha' from me. My daily rider is a GS500, (under-rated, pretty damn good bike) -brought back from a grave of tangled valves and rattle-can-black, gorilla-fisted PO's (Aaarrgh!!!)
Velocette Clubman, Super Rocket RGS-ish, CX Eurosport also in the workshop. Just sold my Ducati 450 R/T to keep my head above water, ooh that hurt, but at least it's gone to a good ol' mate.
Here's my little AS50. Too cute eh? I'm going to need some encouragement to restore this little trick. It's 100% original, it runs. I'm thinking of trying to get hold of a 100cc motor for it, would be a more realistic riding proposition eh?
Most of that rust is surface, -cleaned off now and it looks a lot better, but the cost of re-chroming scares me a bit. Paint and mechanical I can do, chroming cost is the killer eh?
Also I know of a complete original good running unrestored T350 too, d'ya reckon I should put the hard word on my mate to sell it to me? -He paid $1200 for it I think.

Mmmm, food for thought.
-Jools

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