I've owned my GT750 since April 1984 and in the intervening 20 23 years I have managed to add around 70000 miles to the odometer! Most of it attending different motorcycling events up and down the UK, and also in Europe, as well a holiday trips.

Some years, like 1999, the bike did nearly 10000 miles, and then again, like 2001/02 MOT year, it did a mere 343! And since... not a single mile of road has passed under the wheels.

Why?  The bike needs a bit of work doing to it and I started to get things together, the goal was the T & GT Club Rally in Holland in 2003...  er... I missed that one. See Kettle Shrine Background for the full story/timeline. Some of the problems that arose were things that had not been noticed and subsequently not fixed after the accident a couple of years before and they then came up to bite me on the arse!

August 21st 2007

Sadly, I have neglected the Kettle very badly for a number of years. In fact, this page was updated just over two years ago, on August 11th 2005!

But now I have decided to do something about it. I've spent too much time with my BMW R1150GS, another cult bike, that I have left the Kettle languishing in the back of the garage!

With the help of John Storrie, this will end!

A bit of history.

The bike was also used for six months in the mid-90's as a despatch bike and although its 40mpg fuel consumption wasn't amazingly good, it completed several long journeys on time and I made a few pounds in the process.

It's also been to the Czech Republic as my main transport (for a year 1993/94!) when it towed a trailer, and on visits to Hungary (1994) and another trip to Austria, the Italian Alps and Venice in 1999.

The bike also featured in the BMF's "Motorcycle Rider" magazine as I wrote a tongue in cheek "economy" article and they used it. When I can find my archived copy I'll see if I can get some scans done. I provided the colour pics and the Editor at the time took some b&w pics at the BMF Rally.

You can use a GT750 for more than a few short runs. Keeping it maintained needs time and effort, but it's worth it to ride a classic bike; no need to keep it in cotton-wool or cart it around on a trailer....

The Website.

I have had this website since the summer of 1996 and although it's seen a few upgrades it's been on the web that long without fail or at least mostly without fail! Even though the hit counter crawls up steadily Geocities keep emailing to say that I have exceeded my bandwidth for the month.

In the Photo Galleries there are pictures from my ownership of the bike and places I have been. The  "Other Kettle" buttons are pictures of other people's Kettles I have taken or that have been sent in.

The background to these pages, and one that over time will be used on all Kettle Shrine pages, is mine.  It's derived from a monochrome picture I took of my own bike in 1994. A version of it appears in Gallery 1.

I've also spent some time sorting out the galleries whilst I was at it to get them in a proper order, and sequentially numbered!

If you want to email me, then please feel free to do so! Link button at the foot of the left window pane.  Click on the mugshot!  I'll try and get back to you, although Yahoo! play silly b*ggers form time to time and lock my email and I have to get it restarted!

There are some marvellous resources on the web for the GT owner, when I started this page there were very few.

Page last updated on 21 August 2007 00:33