1985 SUZUKI GSX-R750 SUPERSTOCK
RACER TEST
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which had come unscrewed;
we had to wrap a jubilee clip
around it to stop that happening.
The first batch of customer
streetbikes all over the world had
to be rectified like that until they
produced new cases with a finer
thread to stop that happening."
"By the time I'd won my fourth
race, rumors were flying about
that the engine wasn't standard,"
continues Mick. "But it truthfully
was, except for the ignition box
we fitted, which allowed another
500 revs before the limiter
kicked in, just to hold a gear
between turns and save a pair of
gearchanges, like at Snetterton
between the Esses and Bomb
Hole. So at Donington, I asked
Rod Scyvyer, the chief ACU
scrutineer, to let us strip the
engine down in front of everyone
after the race and get him to
check it, which he did, and of
course it was okay. That stopped
the muttering. After that it was
just fine—a very faithful friend of a
bike that's still fun to ride today."
Indeed so, because after
retiring from racing at the end of
1985, his October ride to a title-
clinching seventh place on the
Gixxer in the final Superstock
round at Brands Hatch was
Mick's final UK race (followed
by his victorious last-ever outing
in the Macau GP a month later
on the RG500), Grant obtained
his title-winning GSX-R750
from Heron at the end of the
following season, in which Kiwi
