Suzuki TM400 magazine adverts

I have tried to find some Suzuki TM 400 magazine adverts to show 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.

1971 Suzuki year code: R

1971 TM-400 Cyclone magazine ad from USA (detail). Click for full image. The rider getting a trophy from a girl in a bikini, is Jim Odom.  He was a dirttrack racer in southern California in the 60's and 70's. (Thanks for the research, Scott Andersen!

1971 TS250R and TM400R magazine ad from Sweden (MC-Nytt 8/1971). Click to enlarge. There was an interesting article in the same magazine of the Suzuki history (1909-1971), from the '71 point of view. Naturally the magazine author couldn't predict the introduction of Suzuki's four-stroke macines a few years later, and he couldn't think it was possible for Suzuki to keep up expanding and making better and better motorcycles in the same furious rate that it had been doing for the past 20 years. He also predicted that Suzuki and Kawasaki could join their forces, he wasn't sure if there were market enough for four big Japanese motorcycle manufacturerors in the future. Today, over 30 years later, we know that Suzuki, as well as Kawasaki, Yamaha and Honda has survived and kept on making better motorcycles and kept on growing.

1972 Suzuki year code: J

1972 Suzuki TM-400 magazine ad from USA (single page). Click to enlarge. The ad shows a group of five riders, all on different bikes.  The Suzuki rider is John DeSoto, the Flyin Hawaiian.  Check ot the pineapples in the stripe on his leathers.  The Maico rider is Jim Hart and The CZ rider is Jim Connley. (Thanks for the research, Scott Andersen!)

1973 Suzuki year code: K

1973 Suzuki magazine ad from USA: TM-125, TM-250, TM-400 (2 pages). Click to enlarge. The rider on the left in the right side ad page is Suzuki factory rider Richard Thorwaldson. Thanks to Scott Andersen, Texas.

1974 Suzuki year code: L

1974 magazine ad: TM motocross lineup (2 pages). Click to enlarge.

1975 Suzuki year code: M

1975 Suzuki magazine ad from USA: TM-100, TM125, TM-250, TM-400 (2 pages). Click to enlarge.

More: 1971 TM400 Cycle Magazine test

More: Suzuki TM series

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Sources: Crooks Suzuki, Markku Nissilä etc.

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