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Project Suzuki RM80X part 1 Later, skater!

G’day. With the RG500 finished and under a sheet for winter, I finally have time to hopefully complete my 1980 RM80X, a bike that is very dear to my heart and that I have been putting off since I acquired it in 2012. Not because I am not interested, but because it needs so much work and dedication to get it to the level I would like it to be…

As you can see in the images, there really isn’t much of it there and I’m desperate to find a donor bike for parts. So, why an RM80X? Well, I’ll just grab a glass of red (it’s winter here, sorry Malc Paul – check out this month’s Letter’s page) and tell you the yarn. It’s a good one.

When I was a kid I

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