Suzuki RG500: How Suzuki saved the Senior
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 98 – first published in 2022. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Peter Jones, Rob Lewis, Gary Reid, Damian Cook, John Ford, Karel Zegers. After years of domination by […]
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Suzuki TR750: A Flexi-Flyer flies again
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 87 – first published in 2020. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Rick Benson, Gordon MacDonald, Peter Davies and OBA archives. In the brutal days when the world was discovering […]
Suzuki RG500 Gamma: Gimme a Gamma!
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 74 – first published in 2018. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Sue Scaysbrook When two-strokes still ruled the race tracks, it was every young punter’s hope to get […]
Aprilia RS250 – Smokin’ into history
Story: Rennie Scaysbrook • Photography: Jim Scaysbrook, Dave Aquilina, Keith Muir The Aprilia RS250 represents the pinnacle of grand prix motorcycles for the street and is a throwback to the days of premix, expansion chambers and […]
Suzuki GSX1100: Four-valve flyer
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Sue Scaysbrook “The fastest standard motorcycle in the world”. That’s not a bad opener in any sales pitch, and it came at a time when motorcycling was all about speed, power […]
Katana – The Suzuki born in Bavaria
The boom in big-capacity motorcycles that began in the late 1960s continued unabated a decade later, and the annual end-of-year shows, in Milan and Cologne (which rotated year about) and Tokyo always contained a few […]
