Suzuki T500 Owner’s Gallery

Like minded 500 Suzuki fans share pictures of their bikes. Where the owner is not named could you please contact me and I’ll place your name and any details you’d like on the webpage.

Don Planalp’s immaculate 1973 T500K – (USA)

A beautiful custom 500 which sadly was stolen soon after completion. Eric Kalamaja
A nice looking T500III

Giampiero Vassalli is from Atina in Italy and he is just starting to restore his Titan

Hello Murray,
Firstly, great 500 site, between your site and Erics, you really do our chosen bike proud, loads of useful information and contacts, just goes to show how popular the 500 still is around the world. I ‘ve sent you a couple of photo’s of my bikes for you to maybe post on the readers wivesxx…. er I mean readers writes, (wrong site !!) section. First one is my 1977 GT500 A. Restored by me from scrap, I know its history from new, so I’ve sort of got a soft spot for this one, just completed  rebuild with reconned crank, already had rebore and new 4th and fifth gears, so hopefully it will stay in one piece for a good few years to come. Second is my ‘rat’ bike, used for going to work on in the winter and when it rains (frequently !), its made up mainly of bits left over from donor bikes , used in the restoration of the other 500. GT380 tank, GS shox, unknown seat, 2 into 1 and ram jet filters, sounds evil !!

Cheers
Trevor Marsh
England

Here is my bike. I am racing it in Colorado in the brand new Vintage Class of
MRA. Still working on it to make it faster and better in handling. Andi Seiler – May 2000

Maurizio from Switzerland

1971 T500R – Maurizio ( Switzerland )

Maurizio’s favourite stretch of road, where the T500 really shines! – Swiss Alps Grimsel Pass 2,450m

Clive Wadsworth’s 1975 T500M

I thought you might like a picture of my newly restored 1975 T500M.  I acquired the bike last year as a basket case which it had been for 19 years! It was taken off the road in 1980 for frame refurbishment. It survived 4 house moves and a brief swap for a basket case T10 almost 100% complete although many parts proved to be unusable or unserviceable. The bike was rebuilt using as many of the original parts as possible except for the engine which was rebuilt using mainly new parts. Best regards, Clive Wadsworth,  Marston, York,  United Kingdom.

More pics of a T500M…..

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Phil Cantwell sent the following pics of his project bike and his mate’s bike:

The red bike belongs to me and the unpainted one belongs to my mate, Adam. The bodywork for both comes from Moto Tumbi, aka Classic Motorcycle Fibreglass.  The red tank is a Norton replica I think and the white one is a Ducati replica.  It was a simpler fit onto the frame as it has anti vibration mounts fitted on the underside of the tank.  Both seats are the same and are TR replicas.

The exhausts come from Andersen Engineering in Ringwood, Melbourne.  He does a lot of work on T500’s including a complete new frame and swingarm.  The footpesgs on both bikes are Honda items where the levers pivot on the footpeg mount.  I like this system as I think its easy to mount and the position of the lever relative to your foot doesn’t change as it rotates. Neither bike has run for many years and both required a full rebuild.  It remains to be seen how they perform.

Phil Cantwell.

Paul Crowhurst from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia is restoring his 1971 T500R, using some GT500 components

Dale Fancey from Whitby in Canada sent us this pic of his 1973 T500K special

Maurizio shared this strange picture with us of Dracula misusing a Suzuki T500R

Tristan Newsome

Chris Newsome

Tristan at MacPhillamy Park, Mount Gambier, South Australia