Craig Turner SUZUKI 7/11 TURBO

Former Royal Engineer uses vast array of skills to create ludicrously powerful Bandit-engined beast from all manner of disparate parts

Craig Turner makes no excuses about being a fair-weather rider. “Apart from the nightmare of cleaning it, it breaks traction in the first three gears, so the roads have to be good before I can properly ride it,” he says. “It’s a waste of time if it’s not bone dry.” An Aprilia Mille is his everyday hack. With an estimated 300bhp on tap, this 7/11 with a blown 1286cc Bandit engine is at the furthest extreme on the nuts scale. “I’m continually smiling when I’m riding it,” he says. He was smiling when he built it too. You can’t walk past the lid-entombed projector headlight arrangement without a chuckle. “I wanted a respirator type front-end, but I wanted to go to another level. So I cut the back off a Craft…

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Practical Sportsbikes (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2018

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