| Russell wrote: |
Early in our family life my wife and I were without bikes for about a year or so when the first baby arrived and we thought we couldn't afford a car and a motorbike on one wage.
I got hold of a couple of TC125 Suzuki's both of which had been 'written off' by insurance companies when their farmer owners had ridden over the front ends with tractors.In both cases the only real damage was to fork stanchions and mudguards. The stanchions straightened up for no cost in an engineer friends press,and plastic after-market front guards were cheap. Both well used TC's were thrashed around flat-out for two years or so before our money supply began to improve. They were both sold at a profit. Now they fill a place in memory as tough little machines that coped with everything we threw at them and kept us in motorcycling when times were hard. |
