SUZUKI RG B 500 MK7 RACE GP BIKE

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SUZUKI RG B 500 MK7 RACE GP BIKE

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Re: SUZUKI RG B 500 MK7 RACE GP BIKE

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£37K is a lot for a back markers bike
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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Wed Apr 07, 2021 8:59 am £37K is a lot for a back markers bike

Aye, it does seem a lot but bike prices seem to have gone nuts in general recently and theres a lot less interesting bikes selling for silly money as well.
I'd be interested to see the full spec as the advert doesn't give much away.

Those wheels are Dymags aren't they?
The only thing I've ever seen Dymags on was John Robinsons CR500 hillclimb bike and even that was in a magazine so I'm not positive.
Think PB did an article on making Dymag wheels as well.
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Re: SUZUKI RG B 500 MK7 RACE GP BIKE

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So it's not special enough... as in ridden by a well known racer, or a championship winner, to be a collectable display bike (imho).

That means you'd use it as a classic race/parade bike, which then asks the question, just how much maintenance/money would it cost to keep it running?
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KungFooBob wrote: Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:02 pm So it's not special enough... as in ridden by a well known racer, or a championship winner, to be a collectable display bike (imho).

That means you'd use it as a classic race/parade bike, which then asks the question, just how much maintenance/money would it cost to keep it running?
Aye, just put it in the massive heap of other RG 500 racebikes you see every day... ;)
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I'm pretty sure I know that bike, I think Jimmy Brown won a race on it at Darley Moor a long time ago.

Lovely thing to own if you have the money/space but it would be one of those things that you'd look at mostly and ride once every few years.
Although there is a Scottish lad racing one regularly, I know his dad.
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demographic wrote: Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:10 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:02 pm So it's not special enough... as in ridden by a well known racer, or a championship winner, to be a collectable display bike (imho).

That means you'd use it as a classic race/parade bike, which then asks the question, just how much maintenance/money would it cost to keep it running?
Aye, just put it in the massive heap of other RG 500 racebikes you see every day... ;)
could be one that been put together from a few bikes, there are so many that are like that, from a distance they look proper but when up close not 100%, plus your right who rode it ???

Maintenance is ok, if you know what your doing and only parading it.

Go to Goodwood they usually have a few RG's
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That looks plain and dull. But I've ridden one, and completely insane.
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It should have a full strip and rebuild after an hours use.
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MCN speed checked the one I rode.

195 !!!!!