'98 GPz500S-based Bananaskin (2009)
This is the August 2009 Bananaskin re-build based on a later 'R' registration 1998 Kawasaki GPz500S; lightly damaged but only 18,000 miles instead of 34,000 miles, and raring to go to France next month (I hope), mainly because it is my only bike on the road this year!
This one has nice shiny discs unlike the previous one which had a cast iron rear disc which never got clean because the caliper never really came back fully to life. And on this one the front discs are being gripped equally due to the new pads fitted to the calipers which I spent hours scraping the oxide out of the rubber seal grooves before fitting new seals and pistons. BW
Photo: Bob Wreford (August 2009)