Found this on Visordown

[curseboy]

James Whitham reminiscing on his career. Here's him racing a Pre-Kat



He had this to say about it:

"Scarborough hairpin 1988 British Seniorstock round. The bike is a GSX600F, or ‘teapot’ as it was known in the trade. Old-fashioned even then the teapot was never really at home on the racetrack. It was however the most crashable bike I ever rode. They were so solid you could always pick ‘em up and get going again in the event of a smash. The best way to put one out of action was to set it on fire I reckon."

[Nero]

That's awesome. Cool writeup! Teapot, eh?

[Drinknthink]

Nice. Built like a tank.

[Omnivore]

Too funny, "the most crashable bike I ever rode"

[curseboy]

Too funny, "the most crashable bike I ever rode"

If there'd been a kat riders bbs at the time, I wonder if he'd be asking about which mirrors to fit after every shunt

[kazahara]

I've been in an accident with my kat and after about 200$ in repairs she runs better than before. When i purchased the bike it showed signs of being downed at least once before so yea these bikes have some tank qualities.