I had a pleasant surprsie yesterday

[T.C]

Last night I was the guest speaker at the Harrogate Advanced riders group.

Although I live in Reading, Harrogate and Pately Bridge are my family home towns (on my mothers side) and so I used the opportunity to call in and see my aunt and cousin as I have not seen her since my uncle died about 10 years ago.

Anyway, we had a pleasant lunch, at which point my aunt said "have a look in the garage, you may be interested in what is in there!"

I thought there may be a couple of trains as my uncle was an engineer and built the large scale loco's that you can ride on and which were worth a lot of money.

Anyway, I opened up the garage and sat inside was a Suzuki X7 250 on a W plate in immaculate original condition with just over 1,000 miles on the clock, and in front was a V reg Suzuki GS1000 with around 2,000 miles on the clock also in original immaculate condition.

The X7 belongs to my aunts brother who purchased the bike new but only did a 20 mile trip once a year and he is no longer able to ride as he has terminal cancer, and the GS belongs to my cousin who also brought his bike new but was involved in a serious crash on his Yamaha 750 leaving him with a brain injury meaning he is no longer able to ride.

I cannot recall the last time I saw 2 bikes of these vintage just sat there as if it was time warp, it certainly brought back memories for me.

So, now, I have got to speak t some friends in the trade and get some ideas of value as it s criminal (IMO) having them just sat there rotting
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[N cee thirty]

hope you got some pics, x7's very sort after now.
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[Pete.]

Nice bikes, and classics too each in their own right.

I think you might have to review your figgerin' though, coz 1000 miles at 20 miles a year would make the x7 50yrs old before it was laid up
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[map]

Always good to have a pleasant surprise.
I suspect there are some memories in those machines.

Interestingly while looking for other stuff found parts for Suzuki X7 available from the likes of WEMoto (as here). Suspect the GS1000 will be there too.


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[Benno]

You live in Reading? What do you normally ride/what colour is it?

I may have seen you around!
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[Mr.Everready]

Your aunts brother ? So your uncle then ?
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[krarkol]

I think he's saying he's related to his aunt through marriage, so her brother would be his "uncle-in-law"
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[WannaBeDude]

Sure Evo offa here has a x7, small bike with skinny tryes, and hes like 7 ft, or seems it when your 5 ft odd
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