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PostPosted: 22:17 - 15 Nov 2021    Post subject: Very interesting garage find. Reply with quote

Unregistered RG500 Gamma with 2 miles on the clock to go for auction. It will be interesting to see what this goes for.
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-10061653/Late-eighties-Suzuki-RG500-Gamma-two-push-miles-sold.html
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PostPosted: 23:16 - 15 Nov 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

I never knew Barry Sheen thought 4 strokes were 'muck spreaders' Laughing

That's despite the Briton - who made his career racing two-stroke machines - making his dislike for four-stroke racing bikes well known. He previously referred to them as 'muck-spreaders'.
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PostPosted: 14:30 - 17 Nov 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Trouble with an example like that is it deserves to be preserved as a mint museum piece, but if there was ever a bike that needed a good thrashing, this is it! But I think of them as a bike that you thrash, it gets tired, you throw it away - you couldn't at the kind of price that's likely to command though. That's why Yam LC 250s and 350s were really a better bet in their day, not so expensive. Everyone needs a chance to try out one of these though. Frantic to the nth degree.
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PostPosted: 14:42 - 17 Nov 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

After 35 years I wonder what has deteriorated even if kept in ideal conditions (dark, low humidity, cool temperature?)
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PostPosted: 14:47 - 17 Nov 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

doggone wrote:
After 35 years I wonder what has deteriorated even if kept in ideal conditions (dark, low humidity, cool temperature?)


Every bit of rubber I'd think inc engine seals. You could probably get it to run without a rebuild - but how well?
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PostPosted: 14:52 - 17 Nov 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

doggone wrote:
After 35 years I wonder what has deteriorated even if kept in ideal conditions (dark, low humidity, cool temperature?)


Probably everything that isn't metal, and some parts that are.
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PostPosted: 15:06 - 17 Nov 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

The quality of the bodywork wasn't very good either, so I wonder if plastics might have become brittle too. All depends on how it's been treated, even in storage I suppose.
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PostPosted: 15:19 - 17 Nov 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

As much as I'd love to try it, the best place for that is Beaulieu or the National Motorcycle museum.
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PostPosted: 15:26 - 17 Nov 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Polarbear wrote:
As much as I'd love to try it, the best place for that is Beaulieu or the National Motorcycle museum.


To my consternation they only have British bikes there..
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PostPosted: 16:09 - 17 Nov 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd love to see a proper museum of Japanese bikes in this country. Maybe Italian stuff too.
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PostPosted: 17:02 - 17 Nov 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

chickenstrip wrote:
I'd love to see a proper museum of Japanese bikes in this country. Maybe Italian stuff too.


You mean like the Sammy Miller museum?

https://sammymiller.co.uk/
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PostPosted: 17:09 - 17 Nov 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

MarJay wrote:
chickenstrip wrote:
I'd love to see a proper museum of Japanese bikes in this country. Maybe Italian stuff too.


You mean like the Sammy Miller museum?

https://sammymiller.co.uk/


Not even remotely. Have you been there? I'd love to see a proper museum of Japanese bikes in this country. Maybe Italian stuff too.
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PostPosted: 18:17 - 17 Nov 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

I haven't. It's bad?
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PostPosted: 18:30 - 17 Nov 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Zen Dog wrote:
I haven't. It's bad?


Bad? No, I wouldn't say that, if it's what you're into. It just isn't what I'd describe as a museum of Japanese motorcycles. Seemed to me it was more old Brit iron. A few Jap race bikes perhaps, but certainly not Jap themed.
What I'd like is a museum of the bikes so many in this country grew up with after the era of British domination, late 60s through the 90s say.
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