Anyone one here the previous owner or soon to be new owner?

[Y7 JMM]

Saw this yesterday at the Woolaston Northampton dealer, paint work was very good and I wondered who did it?

 

[Deleted account 190920001]

Quite like that although it is limited in its appeal.

 

[oblertone]

While I appreciate the 'homage' it does rather look like it has suffered a side impact

 

[WindyChuffer]

Why the heck anyone would want a bike looking like a fag packet is beyond me.

 

[Deleted account 190920001]

Why the heck anyone would want a bike looking like a fag packet is beyond me.

Maybe because it's a historical competition sponsor colour scheme.

That's why I said it was limited appeal. Lots of people like me remember the days when the best competition machines on the planet were all that paint scheme.

 

[oddshapedballs]

That's been wrapped right?

 

[tanneman]

Wollaston does it, don't know who actually does the paint job. There is 2 in that colour scheme they did. One belongs to a friend. If that is a new bike then it will be the 3rd one painted like that. It looks much better when seen in the flesh.

 

[Y7 JMM]

That's been wrapped right?

No, it is painted, the plastic parts being very well coated.

It is a used bike awaiting a new owner, people of a certain age will remember most motor sport vehicles being painted like a fag packet!

Now all the money is in energy drinks!

 

[wessie]

Hondas were often painted in Rothmans colours back in the 1990s - sometimes to cover up a slide down the road...

 

[Nutty]

Why the heck anyone would want a bike looking like a fag packet is beyond me.

 

[FabioFr]

If it wasn't for bikes and cars looking like packets of fags I don't think the Motorsport industry would not be where it is today. They spent a lot on advertising!


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[bod]

Hondas were often painted in Rothmans colours back in the 1990s - sometimes to cover up a slide down the road...

Lucky Strike for Suzuki and of course the JPS Nortons.

If it wasn't for bikes and cars looking like packets of fags I don't think the Motorsport industry would not be where it is today. They spent a lot on advertising!




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And have struggled since the advertising ban!

I have no doubt I was influenced by the glamorous fag sponsorship as a nipper, but as soon as I left school packed the habit in for good.

I think motorsport is a poorer place for it's absence. A racing team sponsored by Vimto, Cadburys Boost or Wrigleys Airwaves seems a bit play school in a big boys sport.

.... Love the paint job by the way!

 

[FabioFr]

Lucky Strike for Suzuki and of course the JPS Nortons.



And have struggled since the advertising ban!

I have no doubt I was influenced by the glamorous fag sponsorship as a nipper, but as soon as I left school packed the habit in for good.

I think motorsport is a poorer place for it's absence. A racing team sponsored by Vimto, Cadburys Boost or Wrigleys Airwaves seems a bit play school in a big boys sport.

.... Love the paint job by the way!

Far from it, they make plenty from sponsorship now. But I stand by my statement in a time where other companies didn't want to sponsor or pay up the cigarette companies did. They didn't have a monopoly so other companies were more than welcome to sponsor teams but yet it was mainly cigarette companies.

I'm not saying if the ban was right or wrong all I'm saying is I don't think motorsport would be as popular today if it was not for the money it received in the past and the past is history and that bike is a tribute to the GS's past and history. Would I buy one? Nope, it's nice but the colours are not for me.


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[newboy]

I like the colour scheme - not so much the bike