Kork Ballington and his KR500

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Craig380
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Kork Ballington and his KR500

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Lovely clip here of Kork Ballington describing and personally demonstrating some of the features of his factory KR500, then taking it for a little test run. What a beast of a bike :twisted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojeq3iu4 ... re=related" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Kork Ballington and his KR500

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great clip. :up:
thanks for posting. :clap:
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Re: Kork Ballington and his KR500

Post by pjmcburney »

I caught this on youtube a while back myself.


The scenery in the background looked familiar, as it should.
Kork lives in Australia these days, in Queensland , in Brisbane... in fact he lives less than 10 km from my place!

Great video of a great rider and bike.


Cheers
Paul
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