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GT550

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I couldn’t pass this running $600 2 stroke Bike up, eventho I had to drive 14 hours round trip to Albuquerque to get it, started this project in November and rolled it outside yesterday, hopefully riding it soon
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Sweet! Quite a transformation. Enjoy the ride!
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Nice. Beautiful bike, great job!
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Very nice job Moto Nut. It is worth more now :crosso dancr
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That's a sweet job, very nice.
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Yep! What they all said. Looks like a fun ride.
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wow...what a transformation..
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Yes, wow! You do nice work, great to see old bikes saved from the scrap pile. A friend bought the GT550 new and my brother had the GT380, both were very smooth and good running. Enjoy riding it.
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I had a GT185 once, kept holing a piston.
Got rid of it.

A few years later, I see it riding through my neighborhood.
Introduced myself, and we end up becoming good friends to this day!

and, he holed a piston too!
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Awesome. Now you need to lay down a trail of blue smoke.
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As always, beautiful work! I know mine won’t look that good when it is done.
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Thanks all, the guy i got it from saved it from becoming a gt550 powered go cart
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:oldies Beautiful!
Although I never had a chance to ride a 2 wheeled motorcycle, I was always intrigued by the styling and power of the late 60s and 70s 2 stroke road bikes.

What year is this GT550?
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It’s a 1975, and thanks
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Those things irritate me every time I see them. I was one of the last of the British hold outs. I was still riding my Bonneville when the guys I hung out with started down the UJM path. (Path I eventually took too, I confess).

But why do they irritate me? Because my beloved Bonneville 650 got regularly trounced by one of those that a friend of mine picked up. The smell of two-stroke smoke reminds me of that lesson from long ago.

You did a really good job on that thing. I was at a show last weekend, and there were more two strokes in attendance than I have seen in a vintage motorcycle show in a long time. Looks like they are enjoying a bit of a Renaissance. Your timing is good.
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