Pictures of visitors' Suzuki motorcycles
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Here are some motorcycle pictures the visitors of this site have sent to me. Send a picture of your bike here. Use JPEG format. Please tell us your name, hometown and country, purchase date and your personal comments of your Suzuki. Don't forget to tell the model name and model year of your bike. Click on the images to view them in a larger format. There's more links to visitors' motorcycles at the bottom of this page!

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Model specific pages and other brands Visitors' Suzuki GSX1400, Page 1 Visitors' Suzuki GSX1400, Page 2 Visitors' Suzuki GSX1400, Page 3 Visitors' Suzuki GSX1400, Page 4 Visitors' Suzuki GSX1400, Page 5 Visitors' Suzuki GSX1400, Page 6 Visitors' Suzuki GSX1400, Page 7 Visitors' Suzuki GS750T, Page 1 Visitors' Other Bikes, Page 1 Visitors' Other Bikes, Page 2 Visitors' Other Bikes, Page 3 Visitors' Other Bikes, Page 4

”After 24 years without a bike I bought a '55 BSA B33 in 1999. After that I have owned several bikes. Here's the '71 T350R I bought four years ago and later sold to my sister Minna. ” ”I own three bikes now: a '74 Kawasaki Z1 900, a'88 Kawasaki GTR1000 and a '76 Suzuki GT750 (above). I also own a dismantled GT750L that I hopefully can put together some day.” ”Problems? The comfort of the co-driver because of its uncomfortable back seat.” A motorcycle older than 30 years can be registered as a veteran bike in Finland. The bike has to be original or renovated to original. The bike has to be examined by an authorized inspector from the Finnish Veteran Motorcycle Club (VMPK, Veteraanimoottoripyöräklubi) or the Finnish Automobile History Club (SAH, Suomen Autohistoriallinen Seura). The bike insurance goes down to only about 30 EURO for a year, that is one of the big benefits of the veteran bike registration. The downside is that you are only allowed to use the bike for 30 days a year. The VMPK publish a magazine (Huimapyörä) for their 6150 members, six issues a year and a special publication with a list of their members and their veteran bikes every three years.	1971 Suzuki T 350 1976 Suzuki GT 750 1982 Suzuki GS 1100 G Owners: Minna Nissinen, Joensuu, Finland Arto Liimatta, Klaukkala, Finland Erkki Liimatta, Tuupovaara, Finland Comments (by Arto Liimatta): ”My sister’s ’71 T350R. I bought it in 2000. It had been imported from California, USA, with 33,000 miles on it. It is all original and now veteran bike registered in Finland. It is the only T350 I have ever seen in Finland. None of he Finnish Veteran Bike Club's members have one either. I rode one summer with it but then sold it to my sister Minna when I bought myself a '74 Z1 900. The T350 is a fine bike with awesome acceleration.” Here's more Suzuki T350 info. ”My own ’76 GT750A. I bought it in the beginning of last year. It is original Finnish import, and has had about ten owners before me. I renovated it during the last spring and later in the summer it was ready to be inspected for registration as a veteran bike. It had 61,000 km on the meter but the odometer has been broken and I have been told that it should be about 10,000 km more. It’s a fine piece of machinery. It accelerates and runs well. It leaves a small cloud of blue smoke behind it but two-strokes do that... let them behind your smoke, you know! It is rather easy to handle compared to the Z1 900. The bike is original. It has Shoei hard bags from the seventies, painted in the bike's colours.” Here's more Suzuki GT750 info. ”My brother’s ’82 GS1100G. My brother Erkki was looking for a big bike. In spring 2001 I noticed the classified ad of this Suzuki GS1100G. It was an Italian import. The dealer e-mailed some pictures to us, and some time later we drove 500 km to have a look for it. Just in case we had a trailer with us.... The bike looked good, the engine ran well and the transmission seemed to be working. As there was still a lot of snow, we couldn’t test the bike on the road. So my brother bought it without riding it and it turned out to be a good buy. The machine is really marvellous and runs with very little fuel. Last summer we made a longer trip together, Erkki rode his GS1100G and I rode my GTR1000. The fuel consumption for his Suzuki was only 3,87 l/100km! Incredible high mileage for such a large engine! My GTR1000 drank about 5 l/100km, not that bad either.” Here's more Suzuki GS1100G info. Here's Arto's home page.
”Photos were not important in those days. I am happy that one picture of my GSX, my first love, survived. She was a beautiful and eye-catching lady. But when I saw the new Katana, my GSX suddenly looked like an old wife...” Here's more Suzuki GSX750E info.	1981 Suzuki GSX 750 E Owner: Erich Walitsch, Vienna, Austria Comments: ”I tried to find ’my old’ Suzie and I found her on your webside. In 1981 I bought my very first bike when I was in the age of 22. It was the red GSX 750 (E2). I rode the bike three seasons and sold it in the winter 83/84 because of profession, family and all these usual blabla in life... The enclosed picture shows the bike shortly after I bought it. Than I did some changes on the dampers (red Marzocchis!), put on a white Giuliari seat and painted the wheels Gold. All in all the bike looked great and I was very happy with. Unfortunately I have no picture of it after the modifications. But then I saw the very new GSX750S Katana I got very unhappy. My own bike looked suddenly like an old wife... But at those days the Katana was much too expensive for me. Later I sold my Suzie I did not own a bike until 2001 when I bought a BMW R850R that I ride ever since. I haven't had any technical problems with it, even after 90,000 km on the saddle. It's a good and solid bike but it does not satisfy me completely. Now I try to make my old dream come true, I want to buy a Katana, either 750 or 1100. But I won't forget my GSX750E, my first bike. You will never forget your first love!”
”This is one of six GSX-R1100J 1988 models I have owned. It is fitted with Yoshimura Cams, K and N Pod FIlters, 4 into1 pipe system by Pipeline, STage Three Dynajet Kit, 48 Rear Sprocket, 13 Front and frankly does exceedingly well against bikes 17 years its junior.” The same bike. ”I spent the first several weeks of ownership tearing this machine to pieces. It was an unloved bike with 72,000km on the clock. It was really in bad shape. To my amazement however, my daughter Danica who is 11years old, has taken an interest in bikes - love thoses buns! I found it delightful to be explaining to her the basic fundamentals of motorcycling. Her keen eye for detail has enlightened me in a way I thought not possible. She and I together have cleaned up this machine and returned it to its former glory. with a few minor engine changes it is once more a force to reckon with.” Another machine. ”The green colour combination had an unusal effect against the Gold and Black. I could not resist it.” The Kermit (Ian gave it the name because of the green color) was the fifth GSX-R1100J he had owned! Here's more Suzuki GSX-R1100 info.	1988 Suzuki GSX-R 1100 Owner: Ian Stary, Perth, Western Australia Comments: ”First I bought the last of the black Limited edition "J" models from a company known as Mortlock Suzuki which was based right here in Perth in late 1988. It was the second new bike I had ever owned. Mortlocks used to get all of the deliveries to Australia before Sydney did, which for all purposes was a good thing. Having done much reading on the previous models, I figured that this one could only be better than the others at it was deemed to be the "first" true Slingshot model, unlike the advertising campaign might suggest that the 1989 750K model was. Once purchased, I went thru the run in period and then booked it in for a modest exhaust system and better tyres. The original Dunlop K701 although manufactured for the bike specifically and one of the first radials next to the Pirelli MP7, I found them to be shall we say, unforgiving. They gave you no notice if they were going to let go. After a rejetting exercise to enhance the value of the Megacycle exhaust system, the bike delivered as I expected. Needless to say, I have found this particular model to be the best balanced bike I have had the privelege of owning. At a dry weight of 197kg, and a wheelbase of 1460mm as you already know - I discovered that there was no end to the possibilties with this bike. The more you pushed it, the better it spoke to you. Having the 18" rims although these days finding good quality is hard in 18"s, I found that they are more forgiving to the rider if you make an error of judgement in a corner. For instance, you can brake into the corner, correct and accelerate out of trouble. Earlier models I have owned in the form of the GPZ1000RX Kawasaki which ran a front and rear 16" - were not so forgiving and once commited to a line, you had to follow through. Unfortunately the love affair with the bike lasted merely one year to the following August, were for financial reasons I was forced to sell. This was 1989. The recipient of the bike was most grateful for a well look after machine. I sold the bike with less than 5,000km on the clock. In 1992 I had the ocassion to be a friend to a Police Officer who took a sudden fancy to bikes. He recollected the GSX-R1100J I had in 1989 and a broke a rule or two and tracked down the the current owner through vehicle registration. Strange as it sounds, the bike in as many years had only travelled another 2,500km! - He had changed the tyres to Michelin's at the time of purchase, and the bike then proceeded to sit in his garage from 1989 to 1992! When we got to it - the tyres had perished. The then owner agreed to sell the bike as they were already starting to become scarce for a princely some of $7,000 Aus. Like before once a thorough cleanup had been done, plugs, oil, filters etc, the bike delivered as did before - Superbly. This then led to a bike finding exercise. My Police Officer friend you see bought the bike, I did not. So I had to have another one once I saw how tenacious this bike really was. I began at the local bike shops and found two of the GSX-R1100J Black and Gold models, I bought them both! Next my then partner, decided she too wanted to ride. As she was a beginner, I felt the bigger bikes were always easier to ride, and so we found her a GSX-R1100 "G" Tri colour model for good and honest money, $5,000 Aus. So now we have three, plus one previously owned, makes four. Finally, a friend of mine told me about this really unusal bike at a place called Bike World in a suburb called Belmont in Perth. The way he decribed the bike was strange. I couldn't help myself I went to look. I named him Kermit - I could not resist - and again I bought this bike too. The green colour combination had an unusal effect against the Gold and Black - I liked it - I bought it - there it is - and now we have five! That was in 1992/93. Each of the bikes had different tyres - Kermit had Michelins as you can see in the A59 M59 combination. Another one had Laser pipes stainless 4-2-1 race setup - the power developed very quickly and seeing stars from as slow as 15km was very, very possible. You could say, that I had a variety of test bikes shod with varying tyres and pipes for testing purposes, but the truth is, I just loved the bike - All of them. As the years went on from 1988, many models had come and gone. The GSX-R became fatter and more cumbersome although claims of land speed records were spoken of. They did not have a glimmer in my opinion of the J model and its predessors the GSX-R750G and H which took the world by storm - Schwantz proved this on the XR52 in 1988. The rules and regulations on bikes for racing had also changed. In the summer of 1988/89 because the infamous GSX-R1100 took out the first thirteen places at the Isle of Man with the 1986 model, the bike and all of the brands to follow over and above 1000cc were outlawed from racing. There inlies another story, but overall, pure cubic capacity in a Japanese bike could not be beaten. The latter years saw the development of the 600cc, 750cc and the 900cc bikes filling the sales floors. But what of the bikes that blazed the trail into the history books?? It wasn't long before someone in there wisdom took it to the drawing board - for many years talk prevailed about the return of the Legendary GSX-R - one day anyway - The 750T hit them right in the face - Slim, slender and above all the style and grace of yester year - Yeah Baby! So with the introduction of such a bike, the thought of the 1000 GSX-R wasn't far away was it??? I kept telling myself that I would buy one, I would buy one, I would buy one. Unfortunately life kept getting in the way - Work commitments, family, children and so on. In 2000 the first of the GSX-R1000's were introduced onto the public - a long time coming since the CBR1000 Fireblade began production back in 1992 - what a killer that was. I enjoyed the bike so much I bought my former partner a 1995 model in Maroon and Black - a superb machine - another well balanced bike good handling, and light weight - especially for a woman. Smaller 600cc and 750cc were fatter at 200 and 207kg respectively, a different centre of gravitiy once ridden - they just didnt ride as good as the Fireblade and at 185kg - who was gonna argue? Back to the story - I had the ocassion to view a GSX-R1000 in 2001 after the first models weeded out the problems - By God! They were beautiful - I test rode a demo model from a local bike store - the sales rep had known of me for some years and let me take it for the better part of 3 hours if I wanted to - I wanted to for sure. After the "GSX-R" and I acquainted ourselves - (it had been sometime since I had rode a bike - 4 years infact - I sold all my bikes before summer 1998 - I was then turning 39) I had to find out how good this one is and me tto for that matter. You could feel the power lurking through the handle bars - through the seat, your toes, basically everywhere - all it wanted to do was perform for me. Once a few short kilometeres had been clocked up - I decided to clean up my act and give it some. I was comfortably sitting astride the traffic lines, three or four cars back from the signals - the lights changed, the traffic began to move and we had action. Moving to slowly for my liking, I cracked the throttle for the very first time and it was the most beautiful feeling in the world to see the front wheel clawing into the air like a graceful elephant trunk saluting the world - the balance of this bike once more resembled that of the GSX-R1100J I once had. My heart began to race, pulse up to around 150 by now - and I dialled on some more - again the change from 1st to 2nd gear was almost silenced by the deafening of the overwhelming joy - again the bike rose higher and higher - oh what a feeling to have such command of the road once more - the traffic that I dispised so much was now wallowing in my wake - a shameless feeling I might ad! As quickly as this bike erupted, it calmed to a stop - grabbing a hand full of front six pistons - felt like a race bike to me. I followed through a sizeable round-about and dialled on once more - fearing that I could not excite myself yet again. Bullshit - it just came up again clawing at the air - paws in full flight - What a wonderful wonderful machine. The down side to this of course was - now at the ripe age of 39 - I had to decide between kids and family or a bike of my dreams - what a dilemma this was to be. I rode the bike back to the shop - I had been gone more than 45 minutes I suspect. I quickly got off the bike and handed the keys back to Craig - You could not wipe the smile off my face with a sledge hammer I was so happy. I asked him to drop over the house later to talk about this firey monster with the teped nature at a stationery position. He laughed with a joyess bellow and said - for sure I will come over. After much considersation and the responsibilties I had toward family, I later gave good thought to not buying such a machine - I would have easily forgotten my place in this world and set aside my subsided feelings of freedom. I did not buy this bike, nor one like it - until 2004. The bike in the pictures above (the one with Black wheels) is the one I have most recently purchased - yet another GSX-R1100J - that my friend makes six! I hope that you and your readers finds some understanding in this article - I have and I found myself once more I am buying the same bike.”

Updated: May 2, 2004


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