Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Pops: we’re not worthy!

When Suzuki teamed up with Pops to campaign the GS1000, initially in the US and at the Suzuka 8-Hour race, the other Japanese manufacturers almost fell off their collective perches. How they wished they’d had the bottle to grab him first!

The British race operation naturally aspired to repeat Pop’s amazing successes, but there was a bit of a problem, because up to that time the UK race shop had dealt (effectively) with TR500s, TR750s and various

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