Suzuki GS850G magazine adverts

I have put some Suzuki GS 850 G magazine advert scans on this page. I would be grateful of any contributions — sales brochures, magazine ads, magazine articles, pictures, specs, facts, corrections etc. Please scan the material in JPEG format (large enough that all the details are visible) and send them to me. Please tell me the source and the publication date if possible. If you send me pictures of your own bike, please follow these instructions.

1978 Suzuki year code: C

1978 Suzuki GS850G magazine advert from Germany (single page). Click to enlarge. ”Vollblut-Streckenpferd” (Thoroughbred track horse). The magazine ad was published in the West-German Motorrad magazine, in October 1978.

1978 Suzuki GS850G magazine advert from Germany (single page). Click to enlarge. ”Vollblut-Streckenpferd” (Thoroughbred track horse). The magazine ad was published in the West-German bike magazine called PS.

1979 Suzuki year code: N

1979 Suzuki GS850G magazine adverts from USA (4 pages). Click to enlarge. The pages are shown here in different order. In the magazine, the page with only the text ”Suzuki unchains a beautiful beast...” was first. When you turned the page you saw the two-page picture of the motorcycle (”The New GS-850 Shaft”) and the specs were on the last page of the ad.

1979 GS850G magazine ad from USA (originally 2 pages). Click to enlarge. The magazine ad was originally published at Cycle 4/1979. The scan was sent to me by Michael, the owner of the German website Michael's GS Classic.

1979 Suzuki GS850G magazine advert from USA (single page). Click to enlarge. The left one was found and scanned to me by Jeff Wilson. The ad was published in Playboy magazine, March '79. The ad on the right, ”The Chain Shaftie?”, was published in the Swedish Allt om MC magazine, '79 January and February.

1979 Suzuki GS850G magazine advert from Sweden (single page). Click to enlarge. ”Kedjekardan?” (Chain shaft?). The ad says that with the GS850G Suzuki has managed to combine the desired qualities of both the chain and shaft driven motorcycles and the bike doesn't squat when accelerating. This ad was published in the Swedish Allt om MC magazine in 1980, in both January and February issues.

1979 Suzuki GS850G magazine ads. Click to enlarge. The Heron Suzuki GS850G magazine ad on the left was published in some magazine in UK (date and issue unknown), the German ad on the right was published in Motorrad 10/1979. These scans were sent to me by Michael, the owner of the German website Michael's GS Classic.

1980 Suzuki year code: T

1980 Suzuki GS850G and GS1000G magazine advert from USA (single page). Click to enlarge. ”Twelve-month limited mileage warranty”. This magazine ad were published in Cycle World magazine, USA, in March 1980. I shows the US specifications of the bikes.

1980 Suzuki GS850G magazine ads from Germany. Click to enlarge. These magazine ads were published in the following West-German magazines (clockwise): PS 2/1990, Motorrad 3/1980, PS 9/1980. These scans were sent to me by Michael, the owner of the German website Michael's GS Classic.

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Sources: Michael's GS Classic, Allt om MC (Sweden) etc.

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