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1998 Suzuki Inazuma 750

Asking: £300

Anyone looking for the base of a cool retro special could do worse than have a gander at this, spotted on Marketplace. In the UK, the bike was called the GSX750 and was only sold for a few years before deletion. We were mad for Bandits at the time and quite a few made it over here as the Inazuma, as alternatives to Kawasaki’s Zephyr retros. The engine’s yet another iteration of the venerable 1980s SACS GSX-R750 lump, and they’re pretty much bulletproof, so I suspect it’s saveable. It’s missing the fuel tank, clocks and headlight though, amongst other bits, so I’d see that as an excuse to mix

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