G'DAY WITH GEOFF SEDDON
"Luckily a few more manufacturers have jumped on Triumph’s retro-British bandwagon"
IT’S been like 1989 all over again for this retired motorcycle road tester, with not one but two new bikes sharing space in the shed with my old dungers. Thirty years ago it was the norm.
Not that I, then Australia’s leading bike magazine, I was usually the first to ride all the new stuff so it was important to test the bikes to their limits, which you could do in the 1980s and early 1990s. Many of those bikes are classics today in their own right, like the Kawasaki GPz900R, the slab-sided Suzuki GSX-R750 and GSX-R1100, the Ducati F1 and 851 Tricolore, and the first Honda Fireblade. I had a ride on a Ducati Panigale 1299 R a little while ago and was blown off my feet! How anyone short of an A-grade road racer could test something like that has me stuffed.
