Wheels

[Rob S.]

Fire Roads?

Come live in NY City!

Fire Roads? I read about them in books once.

[GregT]

I used to use my Triumph T100 on fire roads and it is up there in weight. Sometimes it is how the weight sits. I always felt comfortable standing on the pegs when needed but I stayed mostly to graded gravel roads.

I have thought about making a scrambler inspired GS but it might just be for show. The gearing and engine doesnt have the same gruntiness that the Bonny had which made it a bit more suitable on loose stuff or climbing over small berms

Lot of back country dirt roads around here. Back in the 90's I built a RM/GS trail bike. RM370 motocrosser chassis with a GS400 twin engine. Nice suspension - for the era - quite light and I'd tweaked the 400 a bit so it went well. I'd owned a Honda SL350 and liked the response of a twin on smooth fast dirt roads.
Suzuki could have built a nice fourstroke twin trail bike without much effort but of course were doing well selling two strokes and the DR series.