Sam Cook, of Cooks Workshop in Felixstowe over there on the bit o’ land that points towards Holland, picked up the bike that was to become the subtle, but very clever… well, would you call it a café racer? I don’t think I would; I’d call it a streetfighter, in the style of the magazine of the (almost the) same name - an older bike tricked up for both looks and performance. There is, as you can plainly see, no sign of a brown seat here…
Anyway, nomenclature aside, what it is is a 1976 GT250 Suzuki two-stroke twin… well, parts of it were anyway. He got it as part of a deal for some work he’d done for a friend, and decided, after giving it, as our Cilla’d say,…
