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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.

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'73 TS-125 TS125K
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1973 Suzuki TS 125

Owner: Tim Coughlin, Holly, Michigan, USA

Comments: ”I am sending you a picture of my 1973 TS125. It was bought by my father back in '74 and has 720 original miles, the bike is 100% original. I also have the owners manual in mint condition.”

>Here's more Suzuki TS125 info.
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'75 TS-75 TS 75

'75 TS-75 TS 75
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1975 Suzuki TS 75 Colt

Owner: John Metoknow, USA

Comments: ” My lil Suzuki is a TS75 Colt. It says 1974 on the neck but according to all the books they were made from 1975-1977 only.

I found it in an old barn in this condition — perfect — minus the signal lights that is. Took it home and it cleaned up just as you see it. It started on the 3rd kick also and runs perfect to this day.

I was told that this lil bike is Super rare and there are not alot of these left in the world. If anyone can tell me more about the #'s of these made etc. I would appreciate it!”

>Here's more Suzuki TS info.
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'80 GS 550 E GS-550E

”Considering the fact that I let it set in a shed for a year I am surprised it still runs.  All it needed was new gas and the battery to be charged.  The first week I rode it on the road I got a speeding ticket so you have to judge your speed well with it.,” Michael writes.

Here's more Suzuki GS550E info.
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1980 Suzuki GS 550 E

Owner: Name: Michael ???, West Virginia, USA

Comments: ”I bought the bike a couple of years ago in Kentucky. It is stock, nothing has been changed on it.

It still looks fairly good. The carbs have leaked a little bit of gas down on the motor and that's the coloration you see down it.  I have cleaned most of it off as of now.  I let it set for a year or so and that's why it did that.

Once you get it on the road it's instant power and speed.  From the start I can beat most bikes.  For something to be this old it still runs great. 

The carbs are a little clogged so I have problems when I am taking off it tends to bog down.  Once it's on the road though it doesn't do that.

The only things bad about the bike is that it's only electric start and you can't turn the gas off.”
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'81 GSX250EX
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1981 Suzuki GSX 250 E

Owner: Paul Rose, UK

Comments: ”I own a Suzuki GSX 250 EX with 12,000 miles on it. This is the first bike I have ever owned. I bought it at the age of 18, I'm 41 now!

I am now moving from the UK and have to sell it but no one is interested. I restored it 14 years ago.”

Here's more Suzuki GSX250E info.
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'89 GSX 600 F

Here's more Suzuki GSX600F info.
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1989 Suzuki GSX 600 F Katana

Owner: Sean Malay, ???

Comments: ”I have a challenge for anyone interested. I have attached a photo in which I painted in what my first Katana look like. But I have never seen a actually photo of this bike and the unique color spectrum. It was bought in 1989 as a Katana 600, Black with Laser Blue accents.

Can you tell me where I can find a picture (original) of this bike and in the rarest of chances how to find it again to buy it. Mine was a match made in heaven until I crashed it and my insurance company auctioned off as totaled.”
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'01 SV 650 K1

”P.S. I'm 60 years old and still like to ride the winds of change!” Russell writes.

Here's more Suzuki SV650 info.
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2001 Suzuki SV 650

Owner: Russell, ???

Comments: ”I have had her for about two months and put about 450 miles on the clock so far. I have found it to be one of the best bike I have owned.

It's light, quick, positive round corners, a a little bit twitchy on uneven roads and not enough suspension adjustments to play with but still a great bike. Better than my CBR600 or my GSX750S, although I must admit that both bikes were 12 years old.”
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'82 GSX 750 S Katana

'82 GSX 750 S Katana

'82 GSX 750 S Katana

'82 GSX 750 S Katana

”In February I wrote a small ad in a German Katana forum that I'm looking for a Katana. It was June before anybody responded. A man in my hometown Vienna offered me his Katana in original condition. He had bought it in 1982 and ridden it eversince. I loved the bike but didn't have the money he was asking for it,” Erich writes.

”Two weeks later the gearbox of my BMW broke down during a weekend in the Austrian Alps. It would have been horrible expensive to repair it so i sold the BMW and got much more money for as I expected. I contacted the Katana owner and made a deal with him. Now I have her, a Katana, my old dream, and gave her the name: «The Horny Beast».”

Here's more GSX750S Katana info.
1982 Suzuki GSX 750 S Katana

Owner: Erich Walitsch, Vienna, Austria

Comments: ”The bike is not repainted, it is in original red. Most of the 750's Katana were sold in red in Austria ; just the 1100's were painted in silver. The steel braided brake lines at front are the only part on the bike which is not original. It was pure luck to get a Katana in such a great original condition.

It was my dream as a young man in an age of 21, to ride a Katana, but I had a massive shortage of money at those days so it always stayed as my dreamlike somewhere in my brain. I can not tell you exactly why, maybe it was the reason that I found your website on the Internet in January 2003, suddenly I was like hit by a lightening, if you know what I mean. The feeling I had many years ago when I saw the Katana for my first time in my life came back to me.

I started looking for a Katana in several sources like newspaper classifieds and eBay. I also wrote a comment in a German Internet forum that I'm looking for a Katana in original shape that was the prevailing condition.

The first Katanas I found had been really catastrophes. I was offered unloved wreckages and rubbish, it was disappointing. In April I found a nice Katana in Germany and tried to import it to Austria . The deal was already done when I realized that it wasn't possible to register it in Austria — another disappointment. Germany would have been the country where many of these bikes were available but there was no way to ride it legally in Austria . Therefore I gave up searching.

Suddenly I was offered a Katana via e-mail. Somebody from my hometown Vienna had seen my entry in the German Katana forum. I saw the bike on the following day and, to my surprise, it was a beautiful red one. I could not believe my luck. I was thrilled by the bike and the owner could see it. When he mentioned the price he wanted for, it nearly bent my knees... I had to say him that I was sorry but that's too much money, for time being. So he tended to keep it for another year and promised me that whenever I wanted it, it was reserved for me.

Only two weeks after our meeting the gearbox of my BMW R850R broke down. Reparation would have cost me too much so I sold the BMW via eBay. I got paid that much for it that I could buy the Katana. The same day and at the same hour the BMW was picked up by the eBay-buyer and the Katana came to my front door. The money changed from BMW buyer's to Katana seller's hand.

On the following day I got my new number plate and started the Katana and rode it for the very first time. I was a haunting moment for me, as you can imagine.

I have now ridden the bike a few more times, approx. 2,000 km. She is easy to ride but she wants to be Ridden, if you know what I mean. The Katana is no good in the city; she reacts very loathly like a donkey. But the fun starts the moment you leave the city.

The engine is still powerful like a turbine; the chassis is very stiff and uncomfortable when ridden slowly. You can feel every bump. The faster you ride it the more comfortable she gets. Your body lies on an air-pillow and becomes lighter; there is less weight on your forearms. All in all a Katana wants to be ridden actively and shifting of your weight. From the moment on you realize how to ride a Katana you get rewarded by the feedback of the bike!

Conclusion: modern bikes of today with all the "schnickschnack" to stabilize them in every situation, using big sticky rubber on the wheels (the rear wheel of a Katana is as wide than the front rubber on a modern street bike) is good for sure, but not essential. And last but not least, does not the Katana looks good and frivolously? Compare!”


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Updated: October 20, 2004



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