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Yamaha XTZ750 Based Adventure Touring Overland Bike in Halesworth, Suffolk for sale

Yamaha XTZ750 Based Adventure Touring Overland Bike

I bought this bike with a blown engine 15yrs ago. I rebuilt the engine with a big bore and Kent cams etc to a high spec, spending hours on the dyno to get the carbs to run just right. The result is aa bike that pulls 2 extra teeth on the g/box sprocket with ease. Giving it the ability to sit at 90-100mph all day long and do 60+mpg at the same time. It has done 25k miles since built and never missed a beat. Using the bike only for travelling, I have modified the chassis over the years to fit my ideal. The front end is early Triumph Tiger, 19" wheel (new gold ali rim) and bigger discs. The rear wheel has a wider Excel rim. Both are laced up with stainless spokes. The forks contain Hagon uprated springs and the rear is suspended on a custom built Hagon shock, heavier spring and damping for carrying luggage. The rear subframe has been cut and remade to permanent mount a pair of 46ltr Givi panniers. They are forward and inboard of usual, to give a better CofG and enable filtering as they are the same width as the bars. The quiet, stainless, Laser pipe has been lowered and the side panels cut to accommodate. The seat is cut down to single and upholstered with a gel pad. A custom made ali tool box, with a Givi top box mount, sits where a pillion would have. A big MF battery is fitted to give starting power on demand. Stainless brake lines all round. The rear tyre, front discs and pads are virtually new. It runs on the best synthetic oil and was fully serviced, shims and all, after my last trip a couple of years ago. It has sat on SORN for the last 18 months, being run up and round the yard monthly to keep it good. This bike has always been maintained to death and would go round the world tomorrow. The frame is powder coated and the bodywork painted satin black, with gloss black decals. DOWNSIDES - this bike is 25yrs old and has led a life, which shows here and there. Pristine it isn't. There are some stainless nuts and bolts and some tatty originals. The paint is rubbed (why does gloss go dull, but satin go shiny when rubbed...?) and chipped here and there. It is very tall and can be top heavy with a full (28ltr) tank, I have some lowering links, but even so. The gearing is very tall, ideal for the winding highway but a bit of a pain round town, I have a smaller sprocket too. Too much town clutchwork can make the uprated TRX clutch a bit snatchy. Easily avoided with a less lazy riding style. Why am I selling a thing I have put my heart and gold into building ? For 40yrs bikes were my life. I now live a different life and find I have no need of a bike. It pains me that it just sits there unused, when it is such a good tool for the job. It is priced at a fraction of cost to encourage you to think. The last picture was taken on the Estonia/Latvia border during a "Lap of the Baltic". Ferry to Denmark then over the bridge to Sweden. Ferry to Estonia then down thru Latvia, Lithuania across Poland and Germany into Holland and ferry back to the UK. We did 2900 miles, in 10days, of mostly A and B roads, sticking 'ish' to speed limits. The bike carried camping gear and supplies and returned 72mpg for the trip. The picture in the mountains was in the Picos in Northern Spain. I rode with a couple of mates on 1150GS BMWs down thru France, did a couple of Tour Cols in the Pyrenees and then across Northern Spain, travelling on A/B roads (even some gravel in the Picos) at a spirited pace. They had to put in a gallon more fuel every 200m than me and I passed them both when flat out on the only bit of motorway we did (in Spain @ 125+). Somebody should take advantage of it, you can take it anywhere without a care and even chuck it on it's side, without losing money. No complicated electrononsense to go wrong in the middle of nowhere, nothing you can't fix with a basic toolkit that will fit in the neat little box. Go on, think outside the box. It is quite possible you could have a proper adventure for virtually no money.