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alanstott21
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PostPosted: 12:56 - 28 Apr 2016    Post subject: ? Suzuki Reply with quote
Can anyone identify the bike - I know theres not much of it on show

photo circa late 70's
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Pjay
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PostPosted: 13:01 - 28 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Something along the lines of a GT
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PostPosted: 13:20 - 28 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Possibly a GT380.
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PostPosted: 13:27 - 28 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
yeh 70's suzuki 2T so GT of some capacity nprolly 185 or 250





https://www.ozebook.com/compendium/suzi/1976GT250A.jpg
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PostPosted: 14:00 - 28 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm going for GT 250.
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PostPosted: 14:17 - 28 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Definitely a GT something-or-other. It's hard to tell if it's a twin or a triple, but the absence of ram air suggests a twin (think I'm right in saying the triples only ever came with it), so probably either a GT250 or 500. To my eyes the tank doesn't look quite bulky enough to be a 500, so I'd guess a 250 but am not totally sure.
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PostPosted: 14:35 - 28 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
.Chris. wrote:
Definitely a GT something-or-other. It's hard to tell if it's a twin or a triple, but the absence of ram air suggests a twin (think I'm right in saying the triples only ever came with it), so probably either a GT250 or 500. To my eyes the tank doesn't look quite bulky enough to be a 500, so I'd guess a 250 but am not totally sure.


I'm sure they all eventually had the ram air (mates had the 125 and the 185, I briefly (before the X7 the GT250)

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6a/79/2a/6a792a1d3bf1dc4974e35567fbb20b86.jpg

https://www.vintagebike.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/1973-suzuki-gt185-image-632x570.jpg


edited to add:-
looks like it may have been the earlier model that had the RamAir

suzukicycles.org wrote:
Just a quick bit of info on the differences that between the Ram Air J-K-L-M (1973—1975) models and the later A-B-C (1976—1978) variants: Ram Air motors are quite closeley related to earlier T250's and share the three main bearing crankshaft arrangement, and the carbs are bolted directly to the barrels. A-B-C variants have a revised crankshaft using four main bearings and different lubrication arrangements, also the barrels are different in construction using different stud spacing, and rubber inlet stubs which mount the carbs.


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alanstott21
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PostPosted: 14:36 - 28 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks Guys

Its my uncle & me - he would have riden up from the liverpool area to aberdeen on it
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Raffles
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PostPosted: 14:38 - 28 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
.Chris. wrote:
...the absence of ram air suggests a twin (think I'm right in saying the triples only ever came with it)...

I think you're not.
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PostPosted: 15:25 - 28 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
GT500 didn't have ram air.

Not a GT500, cooling fins are too square

https://www.bikesrestored.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/suzukigt500-1978-8-1024x576.jpg
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PostPosted: 15:55 - 28 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
GT250 old type with 3 bearing crank (so J,K,L model).
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PostPosted: 16:15 - 28 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
GT 250 for sure Thumbs Up
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.Chris.
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PostPosted: 17:39 - 28 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Raffles wrote:
.Chris. wrote:
...the absence of ram air suggests a twin (think I'm right in saying the triples only ever came with it)...

I think you're not.


Do explain. I've never seen a GT380 or 550 without it, and cannot find any pictures of one in a halfway original state without it. The 250s on the other hand, came both with and without it.
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PostPosted: 17:42 - 28 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
.Chris. wrote:
The 250s on the other hand, came both with and without it.


I can confirm this ^ as I have had both in the past.
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PostPosted: 23:16 - 28 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
.Chris. wrote:
Do explain. I've never seen a GT380 or 550 without it, and cannot find any pictures of one in a halfway original state without it. The 250s on the other hand, came both with and without it.

Chris, I owe you an apology.
I misread your post. I thought you were saying that it was just the triples that had Ram Air.

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PostPosted: 03:10 - 29 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
GT250. Not a K model, that had ramair. Tank badge is not "A" model.
Earlier GT's (up to "K") had R/A, longer stroke and narrower bore compared to "A" onwards.
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PostPosted: 09:01 - 29 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Major Doss wrote:
GT250. Not a K model, that had ramair. Tank badge is not "A" model.
Earlier GT's (up to "K") had R/A, longer stroke and narrower bore compared to "A" onwards.


Ignore me, I was sure the fugly tank was early model. No ram air and chrome headlight shell points to a late model bike (they went back to a metal chrome headlight shell for some reason.
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PostPosted: 09:25 - 29 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Polarbear wrote:


a GT500

https://www.bikesrestored.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/suzukigt500-1978-8-1024x576.jpg



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