The History Man":2j8defj0 said:
Robmac suggested I share on here.
Picked this up last week. 1984 12k only done 200 miles since 2012. New clutch MOT and service and off we go!
Spent a very pleasant few hours fettling and now she's as pretty as a bag full of pretty things. Not for the knee down brigade but for a tour and a pootle.
BITD I spent a year caning around London (and all points N, E, S and W) on these as a courier. It's hard to believe there are some low mileage ones left! A couple of other chaps I knew had GTs with over 300,000 miles on the engine and they were still going strong, if slightly rattly. (And the motorbike engines were holding out too! Badoom tish etc) GTs are complete tanks with a nice low CoG and surprisingly easy to wheelie in 2nd, but not my bike of choice as I'm slightly built and found them hard work hustling through traffic (mainly due to the large, heavy Comstar type front wheel which has a high moment of inertia) BUT with a Micron fork brace on the front end, the handling improves markedly, i.e., you're in knee-down territory