Mid 70's suzuki 250

[suzuki27]

Hi Chris, if you want a copy of the tech data and specs drop me a pm and I will send a copy down for you. Cheers,Bill.

[DR]

Johnny, I remember those RH's that Mayfairs were trying to flog off. I was almost a permanent fixture with Robbie at spares counter every saturday morning $799 would have seen you own a piece of history back. Sadly the RM250A was out and nobody wanted the outdated RH when compared side by side with the Gaston replica's

[crash n bern]

Off topic, Highway motorcycle.

My mates older brother use to tune our Z1900's for $10 a pop.  We didn't know it but all he did was set the point gap.   I was riding past Highway M/C in F.T.G. in the late '70's  the bike was farting and popping like crazy. (Just after I had it tuned mind you)
The whole shop was in the driveway watching me so I pulled in rather embarrassed and a young mechanic with sandy hair (I think) set the timing for me. probably didn't charge me more than $5 or $10 for it.  I watched what he did and took all the business away from my mates older brother tuning everyones bikes.

[JohnnyO]

Johnny, I remember those RH's that Mayfairs were trying to flog off. I was almost a permanent fixture with Robbie at spares counter every saturday morning $799 would have seen you own a piece of history back. Sadly the RM250A was out and nobody wanted the outdated RH when compared side by side with the Gaston replica's

Yeah Doc it's funny how no one wanted those RH's when they were a year old... if only we had a crystal ball

[chrisdespo]

Yep that would be right we were always ready to help, if the young bloke was real thin and tall it was probably me if shorter my brother and if much shorter would have been paul the apprentice. hell we used to see some funny things there. i remember one day, on the other corner from the shop was the gully COP shop, this young bloke i wont mention any names came barreling down the highway on a XL250 done as a cafe now you would call a motard i guess, and throws it into the left hander to go up station street and chucks it down the road, slides across the road over the gutter and hits the wall of the copshop smoko room we were laughing our guts out the young fellow in question sitting on his arse in a heap with the bike when one of the boys in blue opens the venetian blinds has a look and cant see down to where the pile of rider and bike sits . he just closes the blind and goes back to his cuppa probably. the bike and rider is rescued and did we have something to cack ourselves over but we never gave the poor fella a hard time over it. well not much anyway.

[SAABCOMBI]

There is a 1975 RH 250 here in Geelong. I have seen the bike.

[jerry]

Not many RN's around though!

[SAABCOMBI]

The ex Gary Adams  RN 400 suzuki is in Geelong.

[DR]

One of the lucky few who've ridden an RH250 and RN400 (the latter courtesy of D.Tanner ) Early RH's are really nice but the early RN's are even better and something I could easily live with if I could easily afford

[frostype400]

Where abouts in Geelong is it on display or private collection.

[SAABCOMBI]

A friend of mine races a ts tm 400 and he thinks it ants pants, every time l look at it and compare to the two TM, RH, l offen think that the tm or ts wouldn`t be a bad mount if it was sorted out properly. Any Caldacot liked his Tm, the RH where refined more and lighten, the main problem with the tm/ts is the frame.
Could someone tell me, would the ts 400 duplex frame be a better frame than the ts 400 single tubular frames.

[chrisdespo]

I think that the single down tube frames are fine there is not much weight difference but the head angle may be steeper on the TM . I used to ride a TS on road and fire trail stuff and it was a good bike , heavey but good it used to shake its head a bit out of turns but that may have been the trials universal tires fitted.

[DR]

Geometry is the same for the TS and TM400 and I have a strange feeling the later twin downtube could be heavier with no obvious added benefit. What surprised me when building my TS's was the shear weight of the rolling chassis without the engine they weigh a friggin' ton, (so do the TM250/400 for that matter but the 125's are fine ) wheels in particular go crazy and get this weight down however you can and it'd be an okay thing. Mine didn't suffer any head shake but it does have a little more trail due to the hattah forks and the axle placement I've used. The big killer for me is it's simply too heavy. Firko and Cyclone possibly have the answers in Mark's Boyd and Stelling and Ray's Cheney, both super light in comparison to a stocker.