Show Us Yours: Paul Williams’ 1980 Suzuki GSX750ET
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Bertie Simmonds
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In this edition of Show Us Yours, take a look at Paul Williams’ 1980 Suzuki GSX750ET. Want to see your pride and joy in our magazine, on our website and on our social media pages? If so, fill in the form here>>
Hi CMM! I thought I’d send a few pictures of my 1980 Suzuki GSX750ET. It has done 18,000 miles. I have a few restoration jobs to complete that will leave it in showroom condition. Hope you like it.
As a child Bertie (well, Robert back then… blame his sister for the nickname) was exposed to motorcycles thanks to his uncles. They would show up at his house with a lovely lady as pillion throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
After a naughty time on field bikes (it’s what we did back then) Bertie passed his test in the early 1990s and became a reporter for MCN in 1995, moving to the sports desk and covering World Superbikes in 1996.
With a change to Bike Magazine in 1997, he stayed until 2000 as news, features and road test editor. Moving into PR with Cosworth, Bert was bored with cars and returned to bikes in 2001 with Two Wheels Only, becoming editor in 2002 and leaving to be freelance at the end of 2004.
With almost a decade freelancing, Bertie joined Mortons in 2013 and became editor of Classic Motorcycle Mechanics, a post he’s desperately clung to, to this day. And no, he’s never had a pretty girl on the back of his bike.
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