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    THE KATANA in detail

    Nov 18, 2018 3 minutes
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    BODYWORK

    The bike has a custom fuel tank with original Katana panel modified and remoulded. The whole of the seat area came in for quite a bit of work being shortened by 50mm and raised higher than on the stock bike.

    SWINGARM

    This has been made by Sweet Fabrications to TCS’s spec. It’s been built to look very similar to the original’s extruded style used by Suzuki in the 1980s. TCS has future-proofed this retro-lookalike and ensured that the design can take a 200

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