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Project Kawasaki ZXR750J Classic TT racer part 1 Vac-packed!

seems to me that the constant urge to buy more and more motorbikes is like an incurable disease, and it doesn’t get any better with age. And I’m too poor to have a garage so every time I buy a new bike they end up in my old man’s workshop, which is getting more and more bunged up with bikes as we speak. Between him and I, there is a bike in there for every occasion (he is just as adept as me as far as motorcycle acquisition goes), all in varying states of repair (or disrepair, as the case may be), so it was much to my father’s disapproval when I turned up with my latest project. The Kawasaki anoraks amongst you will

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