Amanda Zito—also known as As the Magpie Flies on YouTube and Blindthistle elsewhere on the internet—is best known for her motorcycle travel videos. For the last several years, she’s been traveling around the U.S., and taking us all along for the ride via her YouTube channel. While many of her travels have been on board her trusty Honda CB500X, she’s also done some Africa Twin travels in more recent time.
We’re not here to talk about the Africa Twin today, though, or even the CB500X. See, long before either of those bikes entered Zito’s life, she had her first bike—a 1980 Suzuki GS 850GL that she named Lazarus. Here in 2023, she still has her first bike but it hasn’t run in about three years. So, the question is, can she get it to run again? She still wants to ride it, because it’s just what riders generally tend to want to do.
