Suzuki Snapshots William Hardin William (Willie) Hardin worked for U.S. Suzuki Motor Corp. from 1969-74 and has shared the following photos with us. Above photo is from the early 70’s. It was taken at Orange County Raceway in Sth’n California. Ron Grant and Art Bauman had competed on a couple of new TR500s before the […]
Category: TR500
Dunstall Suzuki T500
A Dunstall Suzuki T500 from South Africa by Philip de Gruchy Thought you might like to see my Dunstall Cafe Racer , it used to be my classic race bike , which I raced for about 5 years in South Africa but it became uncompetative . I bought this bike and 3 others as basket […]
TR500 found in a New Zealand shed.
Found in a New Zealand shed. Hi Suzuki fans, here’s a pic of a couple of TR replicas I recently picked up with the plan of racing them in NZ’s classic scene. Built by a craftsman named John Anderson they are reasonable replicas of the mighty TR 500 and TR 250, the porting is supposed […]
Steve Wheatman;s TR500
Suzuki TR500 Steve Wheatman has picked up a factory TR500 Daytona which was imported into Australia for racing. This bike’s engine number is T500-24895 – The original owner was Kijima engineering from Japan & the bike was bought to Australia in 1973 by Grant McRichie & other Australian owners have been Martin Hone, Steve Trinder, […]
South African Legends
In Feb this year the owners of the Zwartkop Raceway, in Pretoria, South Africa, hosted a classic racie bike day, where the feature event was ”SA Legends“ As many South African Champions as possible were contacted to take part, and the result was an amazing collection of over 35 past South African motorcycle champions, many […]
TR500 MkIII Barrels
TR500III Suzuki DiamondJ has shared some pics of a TR500 MkIII watercooled barrel with us….nikalsil liners rather than steel sleeves on these guys, plus the transfer ports have been re-arranged.
Ken Rick’s Suzuki TR500 MkII
Ken claimed this machine was raced to victory in the 1973/74 Marlboro Series in New Zealand by Dale Wylie, but that claim is disputed. Ken’s seat is not standard.The standard seat can be seen below in the shot of Jack Findlay’s TR500II pictured in 1973. (Picture borrowed from Ray Battersby’s book Team Suzuki)
Ralph Hudson’s TR500
Hello, I have a TR500 with a Steve Roberts frame that I got from Geoff Perry in 1972. I was able to get some parts out the back door at Suzuki when they got the TR750’s and sent the 500 parts to the crusher. I’ve been racing in AHRMA with it for about 4 yrs, […]
Robin McKenzie’s Suzuki TR500
Robin McKenzie‘s Suzuki TR500 Back in 1980, while living in Christchurch NZ I found a TR500 in a guys shed, back in the good ol days when old race bikes were worth nothing. Anyway I bought this old TR500, for the princely sum of $500 I think it was, got it going and raced it […]
Ralph Hudson’s TR500
Suzuki Snapshots Ralph Hudson’s TR500 2003 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 […]
Dieterman watercooled TR500 MkIII
Th This pic is by Skimmer from Thumpertalk – 1971 Suzuki TR500 in a Dieterman frame at Snetterton
TR500 MkIII
TR500 Watercooled MkIII – 1975 Bore and Stroke: 70 x 64 Carbs: 2 x 38mm Mikuni VM38SS Compression: 7.4:1 Max HP: 80 @ 8900rpm Max speed: 160 mph Dry weight: 140kg
Ex Pat Hennan TR500-III
Following 2 photos show Pat Hennan on the TR500III at Laverton, Victoria, Australia in 1976. Photos by John Dayhew
Tony Marasco – racing Suzuki
Tony raced with the Historic Motorcycle Racing Association, Victoria, Australia in the 1990s.
Dave Maskell’s Seeley TR500
Pictures and technical info on a water-cooled Seeley TR500 from the UK by David Maskell I bought new Seeley Suzuki at the start of the 72 season from Eddie Crooks, complete rolling chassis £350, new std T500 engine £250 with racing parts in exchange for std road parts returned – that’s some of the help […]
Philip de Gruchy’s TR500
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, […]
Les van Breda – TR500 & XR500 (TR500 MkII)
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 XR05 had a great […]
Tragic loss of Cal Rayborn
Some discussion online: There was an element of trying to get any chance he could to get on a Suzuki and get cracking. I felt that his supposed signing for Suzuki indicated that he intended to specialise in roadracing rather than pursuing the Grand National AMA series, so there was no longer any need to […]
