G'DAY WITH GEOFF SEDDON
PUTTING the feature together on Bob Prior’s Suzuki GT750 on page 28 brought the memories flooding back. My first road bike was a GT750 that I bought secondhand in 1977. It was nothing like Bob’s in appearance or performance, far from it, but it was the bike that changed my life. A dirt-bike hobby became a road-bike lifestyle that I have lived, eaten and breathed uninterrupted to this day. I didn’t know much about motorbikes when I bought it. I thought the Suzuki was a handsome thing and I liked the idea of it being a two-stroke, as that was what I knew from my dirt-bike days. It had had a hard life, evidenced by missing side-covers and a universal tyre on the back, which was the real reason I…