Some old shots of Muzza’s Titan racers Muzza Titan 500 No. 189 to the left, away in a cloud of Silkolene Genuine CR750 Honda alloy tank (worth a mint) and a Bromlech 2 into 1 pipe with a Femsa racing ignition, went well and was great to ride. Pulled like a train. Brain Ferguson …
Getting a head (or two) by Glen Morgan from New Zealand The stock T500 head is actually a good design for its purpose, but it is a compromise between production costs and performance. The stock head is a shallow section of a hemisphere on top of a low perpendicular wall. Its advantages are that it …
Eric Kalamaja’s Suzuki 500 Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 From: “Eric F. Kalamaja” <sundialm@iag.net> Reply-To: sundialm@iag.net Organization: Sundial Moto Sports Subject: Another T500 Photo</sundialm@iag.net> Hello Murray, Here is one from Daytona 96 3 days after I crashed it at Roebling Road, Savannah, Georgia at 110 miles an hour in practice after one of the british bikes blew …
SUZUKI 500 FANATICS Chris Bradley builds a T500 racer Chris Bradley built a race 500 from a heap of T500 parts. His experience was published in Classic Motorcycle Mechanics in their February 1999 issue. Chris is still living off the proceeds from writing that article and plans a trip into the heart of …
Andrew Holley’s Suzuki 500 Early History: The bike was bought new by my brother in 1971 as a T500J, after losing his drivers licence for the usual teenage stupidity, he sold it and then I bought it back in Jan 1975. Straight away it gained expansion chambers and clip ons plus home made rearsets. In …
Kiwi Glen Morgan has subjected the process of building expansion chambers for the 500 Suzuki to close scrutiny. Read on …. By Glen Morgan In the process of working on my own T500 project I’ve met a few others with similar intentions. The exhaust system seems to have presented a problem for a few people. …
Flexi Flyer: T-500 Vintage Roadracer Project – text by Kris Bernstein Applying state of the art technology to new equipment results in varying degrees of improvement. Applying similar technology to old equipment gives it a new’lease on life. Such is the case in preparing a vintage roadracer, as in this example the Suzuki T-500 Titan. …
T500 Suzuki racing tips courtesy Allan Greening 1. Don’t grind transfer ports. Just work out how much you want to raise the port and machine that amount off the top of: the barrel and add a spacer under the barrel the same amount. You now find that the exhaust port does not need so much …
T500 Suzuki racing tips courtesy Rob Greenhill (in response to Chris Bradley sending Rob the race prep tips from this web site) Dear Chris Many thanks for the paperwork, it’s very interesting, especially the info, on the factory racers, which extends our knowledge a bit. Mr.Barnard’s ideas on race preparation generally agree with what we …
THE 500 SUZUKI PICTURE GALLERY Updated 23 Feb 97 A Suzuki Italy special model. They also did a limited edition called the Vallelunga based on the GT750, ten to full TR750 works spec. and a hundred less potent look-alikes. Suzuki GB did a special based on the GT500, with rearsets, alloy wheels and fairing which …
Crooks Suzuki 500 Piet Hogervorst and his Crooks Suzuki T500 in 1973. Piet rode this machine in long distance races such as the Barcelona 24 hours and the Thruxton 500.
Frank Whiteway and the 1970 Production TT Frank very kindly shares his experiences on TR250s and the T500 from 1967-70 1970 Production TT winner Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 Subject: Crooks-Suzuki Frank Whiteway, Barrow-in-Furness. Dear Murray !967 Manx TR250 I regret to say that my recollection of specific machine details is a bit …
Chris is building a T500 based road racer….here is his story… This is the ’76 GT500 I started out with. I bought it off Ebay in ’07. It needed a top end rebuild, carb kits, sprockets and chain and some rust removal and shinning to get her road worthy. I road the bike all summer …
Getting into racing a Suzuki 500 The start of something big TITAN RACING – POST CLASSIC ON A BUDGET The Suzuki 500 twin in its various guises as a Cobra, Titan or GT500 serves as a useful basis for the construction of a very competitive post classic road racing machine. The classic and post-classic racing …
SUZUKI 500 FANATICS The factory racers – the TR500 – Air-cooled and water-cooled 1971 Daytona TR500The TR500 found its origins in… Boulogne, France. Pierre Bonnet was the French Suzuki distributor and the works team indeed was based there for their first serious onslaught on the Grand Prix world in 1962. By 1967 Jacques Roca, a …
Ralph Hudson’s TR500 The late Geoff Perry helped me put this bike together back in ’72 to campaign in the states on the AMA circuit. The advent of the TZ700 made the 500 uncompetitive on a national level, so it was retired at the end of ’73. I just took it out of the garage …
Rob Greenhill’s tuning tips and service Rob Greenhill’s “Cobra Racing” was a small and friendly engineering and race development shop specializing in classic racers particularly the Suzuki T 500. They dealt with classic car parts that are no longer available or need reconditioning. They machined parts from billet alloy, brass, bronze, and stainless steel etc …
Hi-Tac’s Suzuki 500 In 1972 Peter Inchley, ex-Norvil chief, went his own way with the Hi-Tac organisation. Hi-Tac produced kits for several two-stroke machines including the T500. Peter Inchley saw the need to stabilise two-stroke engine performance by water-cooling the engines. He made no porting modifications to increase performance but sought to control the temperature …
South African TR500 HISTORY OF SUZUKI TR500 ENGINE NO. TR10028 This SUZUKI racing motorcycle was one of (2) two bikes supplied to sponsored riders in South Africa in 1972 and arrived by ship at Durban harbour on the 19 th of December. The sponsored riders who were allocated the bikes were Jon Ekerold and Les van Breda, …
Sukidookie has supplied some pics of his great T500 based racer….. Here are some pictures and info on my bike. Here’s my story: I picked the bike up for free from someone that just had it rusting away in the backyard. They actually had it next to the fence so the dogs could stand on …
My name is Gerard Kampen and I live in Holland, I am a great Barry Sheen fan, I have raced motorbikes here in Holland from 1977 until 1982. At this moment I am building a Suzuki TR500 replica and I am going to race it here in classic events. In complete Sheene style, with replica …
T500 racebike seen at the Australian National Historic Racing Championships in 2008 held at Wanneroo western Australia
Seeley framed T500 Suzuki racebikes seen at Wanneroo Western Australia Seeley framed T500 – Jack Coyle Seeley Framed T500 – Martin Pearson
Vincent BENOIT from France had fashioned a neat looking race replica out of a T500 and added a neat front 4ls drum brake.
DRESDA SUZUKI 500 RACER Spike Livingstone shared this pic with us….of his rare Dresda race framed Suzuki 500 Hi Muzza, bought chassis from TGA racing at the end of `04 and put what should have been a very quick (according to seller) tr500 lump with a standard gearbox…. Finished build in time for first outing …
Captain Bellybuster Captain Bellybuster, otherwise known as Paul Crowhurst is a fine chap who lives in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The captain has built 2 Suzi 500s, one for the road and one for the track. Good on ya mate….. Captain’s civilised alternative bike
Suzuki TR500 and XR05 This is Les van Breda multiple South African Motorcycle Champion. The Blue bike is my XR05 (ready to run at last!), and the wine red bike you have featured before is Phil de Gruchy’s air cooled TR500. Les won South African championships on both of these bikes. He says the watercooled …
Noël Soudant – Netherlands Noël Soudant’s racing T500, excellent looking bike Tech stuff year: 1970 weight: 128 kg power: about 70 bhp top speed: about 235 kph (145 mph) frame: home made by Erik Kerkhof and myself ignition: PVL magneto Tank and seat: custom tank and design ceriani frontfork grimeca 4 leading shoe drum brake fairing: …