Suzuki GS500E (1989-1997) [7/221] Introduction

Suzuki GS500E (1989-1997) [7/221] Introduction
0-6 Introduction
The fearsome beast could top 140 mph and
only weighed 340 Ib - the other alleged GP
replicas were pussy cats compared to the
Gamma's man-eating tiger.
The RG only lasted a few years and is
already firmly in the category of collector's
it«n; its four-stroke equivalent, the GSX-R, Is
stili with us and looks like being so for
many years. You have to look back to
1985 and its launch to reallse just what
a revolutionary step the GSX-R750
was: quite simply it was the first
race replica. Not a bike dressed up
to look like a race bike, but a
genuine racer with lights on, a
bike that could be taken straight
to the track and win.
The first GSX-R, the 750, had a
completely new motor cooled by
011 rather than water and an l
aluminium cradle frame. It was
sparse, a tittle twitchy and very, very 1
fast. This time Suzuki got the looks
,
right, blue and white bodywork based ,
on the factory's racing colours and \
endurance-racer lookalike twin \.
headlights. And tt1en came the 11 00 - the
big GSX-R got progressively more brutal
as it chased the Yamaha EXUP for the
heavyweight championship.
And alongside all these mould-breaking
designs, Suzuki were also making the best
flm four~ke motorcycle
looking custom bikes to come out of Japan,
the Intruders; the first race replica trail bike,
the DR350: the sharpest 250 Supersports, the
RGV250; and a bargain-basement 600, the
Bandit. The Bandit proved so popular they
went on to build 1200 and 750 cc
versions of it. I suppose that's predictable, a
range of four-stroke fours just like the GS and
GSXs. It's just like the
company really,
sometimes
predictable,
admittedly - but
never boring.
The GSX-R750 of 1985

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