1969 Build a Kawasaki Super-Bike - 3-Page Vintage Motorcycle Article

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1969 Build a Kawasaki Super-Bike - 3-Page Vintage Motorcycle Article
Original, vintage magazine article
Page Size: Approx. 8" x 11" (21 cm x 28 cm) each page
Condition: Good
BUILD A KAWASAKI
'SUPER-BIKE’
THE G-3TR HAD NOTHING ON CINDERELLA. THE motorCYCLIST
STAFF TELLS YOU HOW TO BUILD ONE OF THE HOTTEST
SMALL DISPLACEMENT MACHINES AROUND.
WE’VE BEEN DONE in by Kawasaki! If you think we’re
kidding, look at the test of the Kawasaki Centurion
in the October issue of motorCYCLIST. We think
they copied our motorcycle. All kidding aside, though, we
couldn’t believe just how close the bike we built from a 90
G-3TR came to the new Centurion. All we can say is someone,
somewhere along the way had a bunch of good ideas, and
followed thru on them.
If you read our test of the G-3TR, in the August issue, you’ll
remember that we didn’t order it as stock. One of the members
of the staff had plans of racing it in the trailbike class out in
the desert, so Kawasaki equipped the machine with front forks
and rear shocks from the bigger Kawasaki Bushwacker 175.
The Bushwacker weighs in at 260 pounds, and the G-3TR,
complete with all the extra goodies, that we later stripped off,
weighed 175 pounds. This means that the Bushwacker sus-
pension. mounted on the miniscule G-3TR is more than
capable of doing its job, under any conditions.
All of the staff liked the G-3TR for one reason or another.
The price, less tax and license, runs right around 9, and
that’s cheap, even for a mini-bike. At first glance, you’d say...
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