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    Fab four finished!

    Dec 14, 2020 4 minutes
    WORDS AND PICS: JOHN VASSALLO

    Hello readers and welcome to my final foray with the Z550F!

    Firstly, I hope you all have kept busy like me, during this second lockdown. Reading bike magazines helps. Or it has me, so that’s good!

    Last time out, I wrote that the bike was pretty much ready for its first test ride. I’d gone over everything, the engine was running sweetly, but I still had no idea how it rode. So it was exciting stuff, taking a big (well, middleweight) four-cylinder bike for its first run in 17 years.

    With the tank empty, I added a gallon of fresh fuel from a can. After starting it up the choke soon came

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