Bridgestone Motorcycles Not Tyres!

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Mon 26 Apr 2010 14:20
Bridgestone Motorcycles Not Tyres! - RaineMan

I was wondering if anybody in this forum has/had/remebers the Bridgestone 350 GTR? I saw a s/h one many moons ago (well around 1974/5) in a dealers. He suggested it was nearly as fast as a as the Bonneville of the same era. I cannot recall seeing one since. A few years ago I did see a 175 single at a classic vehicle show. They were attractive bikes and it seems a pity they gave up manufacturering them to focus on tyres!

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Thu 29 Apr 2010 17:11
Bridgestone Motorcycles Not Tyres! - Glaikit Wee Scunner {P}

Very rare and only ever saw one at the Stafford Classic show.

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Thu 29 Apr 2010 17:46
Bridgestone Motorcycles Not Tyres! - nortones2

There was a very good test of this bike in Motorcycle Sport by MRW (I believe) who was a Don at Oxford, and unusually, well able to buy what he liked! Sadly, I got rid of my 20+ years copies of MS in a fit of tidying:( I can't get to another description at the moment, but I recal it was a rotary intake-valve two-stroke, and rather well specified.

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Sat 1 May 2010 17:53
Bridgestone Motorcycles Not Tyres! - JohnM{P}

If you look at the Wikipedia entry for Bridgestone, there is a link at the very bottom to an American Motorcycle Classics article on the GTR. Very few were sold in the UK

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Wed 5 May 2010 11:15
Bridgestone Motorcycles Not Tyres! - nortones2

Good link! New site to me.

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