MISSION IMPROBABLE!
Oct 14, 2019
5 minutes
WORDS: MIKE BOOTH
PICS: NICK WHEELER, GARY HARRISON, MARTYN PARNELL
It seemed like a good idea when I was sat in the pub with five or so pints sloshing round my belly: to throw bits at assorted rust buckets to race at the Classic TT.
What I didn’t realise was just how wretched the bike I had bought – a 1992 Kawasaki ZXR750 J2 – was going to be. From the off it wouldn’t start, it was filthy and smelt worse than a rat catcher’s dog. With only four weeks to go until the event (and one of those weeks was spent at the Ulster GP racing the modern race bike) we really had our work cut out if we were going to have it looking anything like a race bike at the Classic TT.
This wasn’t just a race conversion: everything on the bike needed attention. The
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