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hi all as some of you know i bourt my 86 model gpx750 back in june it had some issues that i finally over come i striped this baby back to a frame a then went right through it without going into sermantics with what i done as most of u would know if u have an old bike it finished up looking shit hot. so i took it to my first ride day last weekend at winton got through most of my seasons till my front wheel sleeped from under me on the strat sending me into the bechanam at a 110klm slidding the bike on one side then flipping it over to the other side to finish it off. meen while im still slidding on my side then on my ars working out where im going to get new plastics for the old girl as you can imagine it now needs them. cheers nick

Nooooo...Nick, Seems that you are Ok though...

Plastics are hard to come by, I know. There is a place that sells replacements but not painted http://www.handcraftfibreglass.com/

Bugger. Are you zen enough to post pics of the damage yet?

Damn man! not good but glad you're ok.

thanks all ya im ok bit sore in shoulder blade i will try to add some pic latter so keep watching some of thease are beauties befor and afters ill also try to post part of video it was court on cheers to all nick

Bugga Nick, hopefully you can sort it out with minimal effort

nickprilly wrote:hi all as some of you know i bourt my 86 model gpx750 back in june it had some issues that i finally over come i striped this baby back to a frame a then went right through it without going into sermantics with what i done as most of u would know if u have an old bike it finished up looking shit hot. so i took it to my first ride day last weekend at winton got through most of my seasons till my front wheel sleeped from under me on the strat sending me into the bechanam at a 110klm slidding the bike on one side then flipping it over to the other side to finish it off. meen while im still slidding on my side then on my ars working out where im going to get new plastics for the old girl as you can imagine it now needs them. cheers nick

curious about how the front end went away .....coz the GeePeeXers had awesome front ends
I have torn up a number of front tyres at PI over the years but it still stuck

take it to bike Magic
they fixed my old Gpx7fiddy...after it went down the Westgate Freeway without me at 90kmh
having chucked me off courtesy of a lump of metal in the middle of the lane

Damn that mate, sorry fo your DNF.

damn dude.

This is getting ridiculous!
Who killed the Chinaman?

Glad your ok nick

Smitty wrote:

nickprilly wrote:hi all as some of you know i bourt my 86 model gpx750 back in june it had some issues that i finally over come i striped this baby back to a frame a then went right through it without going into sermantics with what i done as most of u would know if u have an old bike it finished up looking shit hot. so i took it to my first ride day last weekend at winton got through most of my seasons till my front wheel sleeped from under me on the strat sending me into the bechanam at a 110klm slidding the bike on one side then flipping it over to the other side to finish it off. meen while im still slidding on my side then on my ars working out where im going to get new plastics for the old girl as you can imagine it now needs them. cheers nick

curious about how the front end went away .....coz the GeePeeXers had awesome front ends
I have torn up a number of front tyres at PI over the years but it still stuck

take it to bike Magic
they fixed my old Gpx7fiddy...after it went down the Westgate Freeway without me at 90kmh
having chucked me off courtesy of a lump of metal in the middle of the lane

Not entirely sure you could call a 16" front wheel stable smitty mine had some work done on the front including removing the stupid anti dive set up and going back to conventional damping and it was just OK in the front end i'm not saying they don;t steer as they do but i'm not sure you could classify them as stable in any way the last track day I did on mine was at mallala and i had the front tyre snowplowing through turn one lap after lap sure it never actually sat me on my arse but it was sliding through turn one every lap a good mate switched to a 17" wheel on his and this sorted the front end in terms of stability i used to find the biggest challenge was suspension on the old gpx's the standard stuff is less than average and after two laps it would turn to mush but with some spring and damping mods they certainly do improve dramatically I also hope that this small paragraph without punctuation marks has made it's point too

nick asked me to show a few pic's for him of our day at the track

im in the middle of re building a gpx 750

Bugger, just saw your thread Nick.

Hope you're not damaged, and you get her going again soon.

well just looking at the pics and the bike dont look to bad hope your ok mate ??


i mite be able to help you with parts if you need them mate