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Category: Cobra
Suzuki sweeps the field in 1968 12 Hour Endurance Race – Willow Springs
Ron Grant won the 500cc Class on a Cobra T500, Willie Hardin won the 100cc Class on a Suzuki
Suzuki T500 Cobra Road Test – Cycle Guide – January 1968 – Short wheelbase prototype
Note: short wheelbase
T500 Cobra Road test – Two Wheels Australia – Feb 1970
Already replaced by the T500II by the time this report was published…..
Cobra T500 at the Reynolds-Alberta Museum
Tony Jarvis wrote: “Down the road from me here in a place called Wetaskawin is a Transportation Museum called the Reynolds-Alberta Museum. Starting on May 14th this year they opened a two year display called “Life and Times of the Motorcycle” All together there are 150 motorcycles of all years and makes on display. I […]
SUZUKI COBRA (T500-1), Cycle World test, 1967
SUZUKI COBRA (T500-1) INTRODUCTION FALL, 1967 Just think….it’s Fall, 1967….a time before a lot of you were born. The world was a lot different then than now, wasn’t it ?? Well….kind of. Canada was celebrating its centennial as a country, the US was getting more deeply involved in Vietnam and the hippies’ “summer of love” […]
T500 Cobra pics
T500/5 or Cobra (has later oil tank but otherwise looks good, even down to road grime).
TWIN LEADING SHOE BRAKES: A step by step guide to a super stopper.
TWIN LEADING SHOE BRAKES A step by step guide to a super stopper. 1. Assemble all new parts likely to be needed before doing anything – usually shoes and cable. 2. Remove wheel and note relationship of cams, levers and springs before stripping back plate completely. If cam ends are not stamped with an alignment […]
T500 2LS brake set-up
It is imperative that the leading edge of each brake shoe comes into contact with the brake drum simultaneously, if maximum braking efficiency is to be achieved. Check by detaching the clevis pin from the eye of one end of the threaded rod, so that the brake operating arms can be applied independently. Operate each […]
