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I production raced a Suzuki T500 for a couple of full seasons finishing third in the series despite missing 3 rounds due to deployment with the Army. Mine was very carefully race tuned by the late & great Terry Beckett in Nottingham.
I have to say from my personal experience in production racing trim the KH500s were never a real problem or threat to deal with there greater straight line speed was always nullified by there total lack of high speed cornering ability absolutely frightened to be behind they seemed to have a hinge in the middle of the frame?Watch one go around the full circuit at Scarborough in production trim and you would turn white.The Yamaha 350 YR5 & RD350 on the other hand were my main adversary both Lighter and faster on exceleration than the Suzuki 500 top speed was about the same on all 3 well tuned.The later RD400 well that was unbeatable towards the end of my production racing in the 500 class with a good rider aboard.The biggest asset for the T500 was it’s long wheelbase great in a straight line and excellent around corners the road holding at speed was fabulous shrugging off the bumps where as the lighter bikes jumped and weaved all over the place Suzuki was always rock solid at speed when set up right I also had a good few duels with the Triumph Daytonas in the 500cc class a good one was always hard to beat on the small twisty club circuits like Cadwell and Snetterton. Here’s my tourer in its last Production Racing Guise Trim Custom Alloy Tank + front/rear alloy rims AM4 brakes Heads and Barrels/Porting done by Terry, Dykes Racing Pistons to suit.Top speed on this gearing & spec was is about 118 mph at Cadwell on a good day not too shabby for an old twin I still own this war horse and it can still hold its own on the road and track days
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A vote from me, for Post (non-airgun) of the Year!
had a 400/4 yellow supersport chopped that in for a z650
people say you cant smell a pictureCame across a pic of one in the same colour as mine. Mine had the standard pipes. Suzuki got the styling of their bikes so right in the late 70s.
i used to run a hoover pipe from the middle carb out to the side of the engine with a sb filter on cured a bit of the mid cylinder depression and rich running seem to remember my baccy tin always full of jets
premix 2 stroke fuel castrol r40
Rickster
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Mate that`s a beautiful old gal, total respect to you for keeping it looking so good .I production raced a Suzuki T500 for a couple of full seasons finishing third in the series despite missing 3 rounds due to deployment with the Army. Mine was very carefully race tuned by the late & great Terry Beckett in Nottingham.
I have to say from my personal experience in production racing trim the KH500s were never a real problem or threat to deal with there greater straight line speed was always nullified by there total lack of high speed cornering ability absolutely frightened to be behind they seemed to have a hinge in the middle of the frame?Watch one go around the full circuit at Scarborough in production trim and you would turn white.The Yamaha 350 YR5 & RD350 on the other hand were my main adversary both Lighter and faster on exceleration than the Suzuki 500 top speed was about the same on all 3 well tuned.The later RD400 well that was unbeatable towards the end of my production racing in the 500 class with a good rider aboard.The biggest asset for the T500 was it’s long wheelbase great in a straight line and excellent around corners the road holding at speed was fabulous shrugging off the bumps where as the lighter bikes jumped and weaved all over the place Suzuki was always rock solid at speed when set up right I also had a good few duels with the Triumph Daytonas in the 500cc class a good one was always hard to beat on the small twisty club circuits like Cadwell and Snetterton. Here’s my tourer in its last Production Racing Guise Trim Custom Alloy Tank + front/rear alloy rims AM4 brakes Heads and Barrels/Porting done by Terry, Dykes Racing Pistons to suit.Top speed on this gearing & spec was is about 118 mph at Cadwell on a good day not too shabby for an old twin I still own this war horse and it can still hold its own on the road and track days
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I agree with your quotes and i think that is why the old school race series of the 70s was so much more fun and unpredictable than todays equivalent .
I have Jerrycans all over the farm, so I have to paint what’s in it, otherwise my staff fill it up with anything! Strange how you cannot tell between diesel in the can which used to have petrol in it, compared to petrol in one, which used to have diesel!
Got to love a bit of R40!
Rickster
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At the time i was riding my Fs1e dx (yellow Kenny Roberts) couldn`t afford Castrol R so used to put in a couple of caps full of mums corn oil .......it smelt exactly the same and the chips were always good so seemed like the thing to do
They are transformed now by modern carb parts, Ivans is yer man, makes a huge difference, was not convinced till I fitted a kit to the old triple, wow!......total transformation!
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i had a dx 1976 with pedals my mate got a beeman tuning kit so i copied it cut the timing disc etc etc but used a standard peashooter expansion and nylon rear sprocket remember pinning it down knights hill and getting pulled over by the police allegro reported speed 61mph asked him to put it on the ticket for provenanceAt the time i was riding my Fs1e dx (yellow Kenny Roberts) couldn`t afford Castrol R so used to put in a couple of caps full of mums corn oil .......it smelt exactly the same and the chips were always good so seemed like the thing to do
interesting site would have led the field back in the day
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What 660 is this Paul? MT-03 pwrhaps?
Rickster
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Well spotted mate (i didn`t like to correct him as he was having such a warm fuzzy feeling)(Adopts nasal tone...) I think you'll find that's an RD250F rather than the DX model.
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It’s the Aprillia Pegaso Trail which uses the Yamaha engine.
TD_boy
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Well spotted mate (i didn`t like to correct him as he was having such a warm fuzzy feeling)
I had the same model, same colour scheme, same Allspeeds only difference is mine had red wheels
.Previous to that I also had a silver DX with polished cases and fins and a silver AGV to match...all very David Essex
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Been trying to buy back my Dads old Greeves Scottish that he rebuilt 20 years ago.
Ended up giving up as the seller was really taking the p*** price wise I ve just bought this instead A little SL175 one owner bike from Colorado USA 1,700 miles from new for a lot less than the Greeves This will make a cracking little enduro bike 5 speed twin carbs electric start Carbs off & clean, new battery,couple of tyres and a chain pair of side panels and a bit of TLC and it should be good to go.I have to say I have more fun on these little off roaders than I do with my road bikes for a lot less money
Ended up giving up as the seller was really taking the p*** price wise I ve just bought this instead A little SL175 one owner bike from Colorado USA 1,700 miles from new for a lot less than the Greeves This will make a cracking little enduro bike 5 speed twin carbs electric start Carbs off & clean, new battery,couple of tyres and a chain pair of side panels and a bit of TLC and it should be good to go.I have to say I have more fun on these little off roaders than I do with my road bikes for a lot less money