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1975 T500 Titan. My first one back in 1976. 
 
1971 T500 Titan, dressed as a 1968 T500 Cobra. I
bought this for $25.00 in 1980 as salvage and added a side
car and paint along with a little work (see the picture
below). I still have this one and it is ready for a redo. Here's another picture. 



1968 T500 Cobra. I put this one together after
it sat apart for over ten years and the day after it was
running we went to the drag races. It did pretty good considering.
I stayed in for three time trials and four runs before being
eliminated. Here's another picture. 

1969 T500 Titan. This one was in a junk yard.
I first saw it three years earlier then I finally bought
it for $45.00. It had been there a total of seven years
and after putting in new gas, oil and a battery it started
on the third kick. Here's another picture. 
 

1971 T500 Titan. Here's another picture. 
 The yellow one is a 1975 that was like my first Titan
I bought new in 1975 for $1085.00. I sold that one and regretted
it. I bought another one a few years later but it was never
the same.


A picture of Tim while he was a Deputy,
a D.A.R.E. officer and a School Resource Officer at a highschool  |
1975 Suzuki T 500 Titan

1971 Suzuki T 500 Titan

1968 Suzuki T 500 Cobra

1969 Suzuki T 500 Titan

1971 Suzuki T 500 Titan

1975 Suzuki T 500 Titan

Owner: Tim Woodsome, Springfield Missouri USA

Retired Deputy Sheriff from Jefferson County Colorado after
13 years.
Currently I am a School Police Officer for the Springfield
Public Schools (but not for too much longer, the job sucks).

I bought my first new motorcycle in 1975 while in college
and I did not have any credit and little cash. The Titan was
a bargain and the guy at the dealership said" if you want
a bike that will run all day long and never let you down then
the Titan is your choice". He showed me the 750 Buffalo
which was too expensive and the GT 550 and GT 380 which were
both nice but he said the Titan would run 80 mph all day with
two people and never break. He was right. I put a lot of miles
on that first Suzi and traveled across the USA with it.

In high school I had a friend and we watched the TV series Then
Came Bronson every week. It was about a guy that traveled on
a buddie's bike across the country and got into all kinds of
adventures. I guess I was sort of influenced to do the same
thing but I never had a Harley.

I traveled mostly when school was out and I rode year round
in Indiana when school was in. I logged 23,000 miles in a year
and a half while working full time and going to college full
time. I met my wife in '76 and our first outing together was
on that bike.

My longest ride was 1800 miles in two days from San Diego California
to Hot Spring Arkansas. The first day I rode to El Paso Texas
which was about 800 miles then I rode the diagonal of the state
to Arkansas which was 1060 miles the second day. I did it in
August which was the hottest part of our summers and I did it
at around 80 mph for most of the trip.
I guess Two Strokes can do the job!

We got married that same month and moved to California. I sold
the bike in a moment of weakness a year or so later. I regretted
it immediately.

I bought another '75 in 1980 and although it was never quite
the same bike, I embarked on a mission of rescuing Titans when
ever I found one that was being neglected. Aside from the last
'75, which I decided to paint '77 Corvette yellow, all the rest
have been in pretty bad shape when I got them. Often the paint
was so bad from exposure I would have to repaint them. The rest
of the bike always seems to work if you give it new gas, oil
and a battery. For a while finding spare parts was easy but
it is getting harder to get the good stuff now.

I have three Titans presently. The Red one which is dressed
as a Cobra with the chrome side panels on the tank. However,
it is actually a '71 with 13,000 miles. It pulled my side car
for several years. The side car is off now and in need of a
repaint so I am going to restore the spare '68 Cobra which I
have in the shed and hang the hack on it. The '68 is the one
which came home in the back of my car and went to the races
as soon as I got it started.

That was a project I did to show some teenagers that you can
go racing and do pretty well with out spending a fortune. I
would have won that day if I had not inadvertantly put the rear
sprocket from a GT550 on the bike by mistake and I did not have
enough top end. I ran the quarter mile that day at 17 seconds.
My red bike with the side car ran it in 17 seconds with the
standard 33 tooth sprocket. (That is at 5000 feet in Denver
Colorado.)

My third Titan is a '72 basket case I traded an old JLO snow
mobile for. It is going to be a racer.

I have also enjoyed a host of other bikes and am presently riding
a '96 Honda Pacific Coast. Nice bike but I miss the two stroke
raciness of the motor. I have a '75 Honda GL1000 that I rescued
last year. It was all bogged down with bags and faring and in
need of attention. It is now is naked and beautiful but it needs
a new home. I have a '74 Honda CT-90 Trail bike in good shape.

But if I could go down and buy a brand new 1975 Titan tomorrow,
I would be first in line. That bike was the best!
Here's pictures of Tim's other bikes.

Here's another Tim's Titan picture.

Here's another one.

Here's more Suzuki T500 info.
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Updated May 21, 2003
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