Thread: Bike Porn - Regardless of the motor, Show off your "two wheeled" beasties

Came across this old photo of my RZ250 today. I do miss my two strokes.

Originally Posted by Shearer

Came across this old photo of my RZ250 today. I do miss my two strokes.
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I too miss the sound of my Suzi GT500 ram air with aftermarket expansion chambers. Lost a good 30kgs of unneccessary heavy silencers, and woke her up sufficiently so that my Olds could hear me coming home from about 2km away

Originally Posted by XR500

I too miss the sound of my Suzi GT500 ram air with aftermarket expansion chambers. Lost a good 30kgs of unneccessary heavy silencers, and woke her up sufficiently so that my Olds could hear me coming home from about 2km away

Those big twin Suzukis' with expansion chambers sounded dangerous alright. The '84 RZ500 I bought new, sounded like a washing machine. Knocking a steel rod down the exhaust centres helped it sound two strokish at 7000rpm plus, but still not like a twin or triple. All Hail the two stroke...

Originally Posted by XR500

I too miss the sound of my Suzi GT500 ram air with aftermarket expansion chambers...my Olds could hear me coming home from about 2km away

Brings back memories. Had a 500 twin at uni and my engineer flatmate used to design and make expansion chambers from scratch. The ones he was doing for the Titan had only reached the stage where the megas were done and I couldn't resist whacking them on and having a ride. Talk about LOUD. As for performance, the power band was super narrow but when she came on song, it'd lift the front wheel with no persuasion. Anyone who has every owned a Titan knows this is impossible normally as the very long wheelbase made wheelies very difficult. Anyway, the noise level pissed off a few people down the street and Mr Copper made a little visit..

Originally Posted by 6x47

Brings back memories. Had a 500 twin at uni and my engineer flatmate used to design and make expansion chambers from scratch. The ones he was doing for the Titan had only reached the stage where the megas were done and I couldn't resist whacking them on and having a ride. Talk about LOUD. As for performance, the power band was super narrow but when she came on song, it'd lift the front wheel with no persuasion. Anyone who has every owned a Titan knows this is impossible normally as the very long wheelbase made wheelies very difficult. Anyway, the noise level pissed off a few people down the street and Mr Copper made a little visit..

Long wheel base alright. I only ever saw 180kmh on mine, sandwiches would blow clean of the tank mounted sandwich holder...