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    WIN BRIDGESTONE TYRES

    Mar 18, 2019 3 minutes

    GT185 memories

    andering through a motorway services, your magazine caught my eye with the super Suzuki GT185 on the cover, so I had to buy it, and oh what memories! Yes I had one, 1974, one of the first batch with drum front brakes. Here’s a pic of me with it. I bought it new from a Suzuki dealer in West Bromwich. I think it cost £345. I didn’t quite have enough money for the GT250 which, if memory serves, was about £399, but I was only on £10 a week and

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