My Suzuki two stroke addiction...

[steve murdoch]

Hooligan!
Nice way to finish off the season.

[Guest]

https://youtu.be/Cm-PgYcm6ZE

[exdirtbiker]

Was that an horse-drawn carriage @ 1:34 ?

[srsupertrap]

Thanks guys. Nothing but corn fields in my area of the world....unless I head a little north into Michigan.
More lakes and curves to go around them up there...
Racks are full now, and the move is done, so now I can get back to bikes again.

What a wonderful collection!

[busa1300]

Thanks guys and Happy Holidays to you all

Horse drawn carriage.....yea, I'm in the corn fields of Amish country....
That's why I had to start letting off....

[dorkburger]

https://longisland.craigslist.org/mcy/d/1986-suzuki-rg250-gamma-rare/6412922542.html

Cool video, and happy holidays to you as well.
I saw the above listing and thought of you.

[busa1300]

Damn...I looked at pic before seeing what it was listed as and thought.....it's a RG500...!!! I'm buying it...
And then took a second look and it is a 250....but yes, it is a very cool little bike and it uses Suzuki's very first aluminum production frame (83/87)
Values on nearly anything two stroke have been moving up at a good rate.

[bobgroger]

Just saw this:
209 Lbs 70 HP
http://www.cyclenews.com/2017/12/art...ike-back-baby/
It meets Euro4, so potentially could come to the US.

[busa1300]

I've seen a few write ups on that bike....would be cool if it became reality, but $30,000 is a lot of money...
Although the new Suter MMX500 is way more $$$ It is real and it is bad ass

https://youtu.be/cH4bRMtm7E4

[steve murdoch]

So you need to raise some cash you say.
Hmmmmm, i'll take the Kat, the CBX.....and a kidney. How much?

[busa1300]

So you need to raise some cash you say.
Hmmmmm, i'll take the Kat, the CBX.....and a kidney. How much?

I just drained the account again....
But I did get a V4 2 stroke.....far from new.....a dreambike I have let torment me for the last time.
Aluminum frame RZV500....did not want a steel frame RZ or RD version
Japan was the only place to go for it.

Hope to have it in the garage and plated before spring.

[exdirtbiker]

per your signature... you now own 18 bikes?

[steve murdoch]

Congrats, Randy.
Doing a bit of reading it says the engine was slightly detuned for the Japanese market.
Is that easily solved or is that considered sacrilegious for such a rare model?

http://www.rzrd500.com/rzstory.html

Some pics of the frame welding when you get it would be great.

[busa1300]

per your signature... you now own 18 bikes?

Well one of the GT750's is gone....sold and living in the UK now.
But my KD80 and RGV250 VJ23T are not on the list....and the RZV is yet to be available for an actual head count.

[busa1300]

Congrats, Randy.
Doing a bit of reading it says the engine was slightly detuned for the Japanese market.
Is that easily solved or is that considered sacrilegious for such a rare model?

http://www.rzrd500.com/rzstory.html

Some pics of the frame welding when you get it would be great.

I'll definitely get pics.... I love pics
The detuning was done by putting a sleeve in the head pipes necking them down, and smaller main jets/different needles/pilots....
Cut the welds on the pipes and have all the sleeves out in 20 minutes, then rejet....still looks 100% but runs like it was designed to run.
Ignition boxes were the same in all of them, so no change there.