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Marque Remarks => Suzuki => Topic started by: oldfart on February 23, 2012, 06:49:15 pm

Title: Rh 250 1975
Post by: oldfart on February 23, 2012, 06:49:15 pm
Love the reo bar bracing
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1975-Suzuki-RH250-RH75-Very-Rare-/200716299278?pt=US_motorcycles&hash=item2ebb9fac0e
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: TM BILL on February 23, 2012, 08:24:33 pm
Thats a badly modified 74 model , look at the swinging arm pivot , waisted forks and tank stickers

Apart from that very original and complete .be a good buy at 7 K  ;)
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: VMX247 on February 23, 2012, 08:35:36 pm
for 900.000 yen its big dollars and then there's frieght :P
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: motomaniac on February 23, 2012, 08:57:47 pm
I just got an idea about what to do with those old lengths of 12mm rebar in the shed!
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: xel93 on February 23, 2012, 09:05:36 pm
I confess - I have bid on that japanese princess ! 
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: Davey Crocket on February 23, 2012, 11:11:16 pm
I've been told Mr Saki Nuts san wants 10k Aussie for it....then shipping, taxes.....bla, bla....then a full resto....plenty of parts at Cash Converters  ;D
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: JohnnyO on February 23, 2012, 11:31:59 pm
It's pretty much all there but needs someone pretty handy at fabricating and welding to put the frame and swingarm back to '74 specs.
Could be made into a nice bike but at a price...
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: TM BILL on February 24, 2012, 06:02:10 am
Steve Roberts in Wanganui still has the jig he used to alter the 74 models to 75 spec in the day for Colemans .

He has reversed a couple of 74 LTR conversions here . Does a fantasic job but it ain't a cheap exercise  ;D
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: vmx42 on February 24, 2012, 07:34:24 am
Give a butcher a welder and... man that is a truly crap job!!!
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: lukeb1961 on February 24, 2012, 08:06:45 am
there is no rebar shown in this brochure?

(https://public.bay.livefilestore.com/y1peowaWtDWCUlrnflOGVp964ZDyEKQjrO9yPz1rNHgfVL7DJI4d64UeGwR52CunMjQHRX1-UUAL7_VGXUfglrFdw/74RH250.jpg)
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: vmx42 on February 24, 2012, 09:42:18 am
It was a Factory option Luke.

Only available to a select few [thank goodness].
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: bazza on February 24, 2012, 02:26:40 pm
thought technical institute would by in a second,what a wonderfull speciman of welding and concrete steel
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: John Orchard on February 24, 2012, 02:38:15 pm
I've never seen a brochure for an RH (or RA or RN for that matter) before.
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: Freakshow on February 24, 2012, 03:33:25 pm
That gap in the seat always does my head in.. its like the bikes long as a chopper..  and shorter..... its not a good look in my opinion
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: Lozza on February 24, 2012, 04:18:58 pm
might be reo bar but it's Japanese reo made to withstand earthquakes and tsunami's (but not amperage)
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: albrid-3 on February 24, 2012, 04:48:32 pm
Some bikes of the 70`s had a cap between the seat and the Tank, Husky have it my bsa B50 Mx has it. Freaky your a young buck you should know these thing as you race pre75 bikes. Jap bikes later had the seat moved up onto the tank, that was to save your nuts getting crushed and for the rider to move his body closer to the front. 70`s era bikes look much cooler than 1980 plus model bikes.
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: Freakshow on February 24, 2012, 04:52:01 pm
Still looks shit on that bike.... just saying
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: albrid-3 on February 24, 2012, 04:57:13 pm
Sorry Freaky, if you saw the bike in the flesh you would have a different opinion. Come to geelong and have a look at Gary Adams RN 400. great bike.
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: John Orchard on February 24, 2012, 05:30:35 pm
I remember as a kid watching Calder Rallycross on channel O, Gary on the Suz up against the crappy CZ's of Morlang & Ryan; had a TM125 at the time, I was rootin for Gaz  :-)

But since meeting Karl & Bernie in later life, I now change my mind  :-)
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: oldfart on February 26, 2012, 07:30:09 pm
Sold for $11,600-00 usd
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: VMX247 on February 26, 2012, 09:17:04 pm
Sold for $11,600-00 usd

mmmmm they are setting the bench mark for rare pre78 bikes  :P
ccm now at 16,500
http://ozvmx.com/community/index.php?topic=22938.0
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: Husky500evo on February 26, 2012, 09:28:03 pm
mmm they are setting the bench mark for rare pre78 bikes  :P
ccm now at 16,500
http://ozvmx.com/community/index.php?topic=22938.0
I think that a twin carb Puch will set the bench mark price for rare pre '78 bikes, if you were to ever see one on Ebay.
http://motocrossactionmag.com/Main/News/CLASSIC-MOTOCROSS-IRON-1976-PUCH-MC250-TWIN-CARB-8110.aspx (http://motocrossactionmag.com/Main/News/CLASSIC-MOTOCROSS-IRON-1976-PUCH-MC250-TWIN-CARB-8110.aspx)
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: albrid-3 on February 26, 2012, 09:32:19 pm
Pre78 classes are being looked at, at the next weeks club meeting, which I feel will be excepted. There is a very nice complete running Rh 250 1975 here in Geelong that never is seen and used.
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: JohnnyO on February 26, 2012, 09:40:14 pm
Pre78 classes are being looked at, at the next weeks club meeting, which I feel will be excepted. There is a very nice complete running Rh 250 1975 here in Geelong that never is seen and used.
There is a nice '75 RH250 sitting in my garage that is never seen or used also...
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: 09.0 on February 26, 2012, 09:49:44 pm
I know of a 75 that will be hitting the track sooner rather than later.
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: KTMaico on February 26, 2012, 10:42:37 pm
I know where there one taking shape as well. We could start our own RH Club. Just a thought, what is the point of owning anything nice to just look at and admire. You would have to use (ride) it to really appreciate the item.

Kevin
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: KTMaico on February 26, 2012, 10:44:46 pm
A bit like having a model as a Trophy Wife, that you could not bed. What's the point?

Kevin
Title: Re: Rh 250 1975
Post by: VMX247 on February 26, 2012, 11:22:16 pm
I think that a twin carb Puch will set the bench mark price for rare pre '78 bikes, if you were to ever see one on Ebay.
http://motocrossactionmag.com/Main/News/CLASSIC-MOTOCROSS-IRON-1976-PUCH-MC250-TWIN-CARB-8110.aspx (http://motocrossactionmag.com/Main/News/CLASSIC-MOTOCROSS-IRON-1976-PUCH-MC250-TWIN-CARB-8110.aspx)

97 of them out there,somewhere  :P
How would you feel-they really where the days..
quote:It was no small feat for a new company to win the World Championship in its second year of competition.
havin a read through vmx #14 ,the 380 was in the 500 class using single carb produced 48 horse power...the new ktm 250 2stroke has 50 horsepower in 2012..they had it goin on back in 73  :P  ;D sweet as for Puch....