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Colin Oldroyd’s 1982 Kawasaki GPZ550H

This was bought in 1988 in a very rough condition, then tidied up and ridden for 10 years before being resprayed in 1997 in RAF fire engine red colour. I then sold it in 2007 after a motorbike accident on another bike and regretted selling it. I then tried for 10 years to buy it back, gave up and bought another bike (same model) to do up. Later in 2017 I found my old one on Facebook just months after buying the other bike, and it had only done

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