Rahier works RA125

[bazza]

Does any one have some photos of the bike from when it was in sydney.We had gaston in Auckland at our club track and all photos have since disapeared.

[Stan S]

Does any one have some photos of the bike from when it was in sydney.We had gaston in Auckland at our club track and all photos have since disapeared.

bazza, this was in Tasmania 1975.

Stan.

[2T_vs_4T]

Here are some photos I took when Rahier was at Tivoli.

Rahier liked his bars way back and tape to stop the front brake catching on the top triple clamp.
Rahier and his mechanic.
The works pipe, the mechanic let me move the pipe around in the box of parts to get a better photo, it was very light.
The works alloy swingarm almost all fabricated.
Every thing under the Suzuki tent looks yellow in the photos.

A trick little spring loaded chain tensioner located between the sproket and swingarm pivot.
Works forks.
Works motor.

[oldyzman]

Was this 1976....

[JohnnyO]

I think most of those shots are '75 except Tivoli which is probably '76.

[firko]

The works alloy swingarm almost all fabricated.

Through a weird kind of deal I ended up owning that works swingarm on Rahiers bike. I did a deal with Mark Cotterill for a set of Fox Airshox and he fitted it to his RM125B featured in VMX issue #15.

[motomaniac]

The works alloy swingarm almost all fabricated.

Through a weird kind of deal I ended up owning that works swingarm on Rahiers bike. I did a deal with Mark Cotterill for a set of Fox Airshox and he fitted it to his RM125B featured in VMX issue #15.

Firko is back!

[Stan S]

Through a weird kind of deal I ended up owning that works swingarm on Rahiers bike. I did a deal with Mark Cotterill for a set of Fox Airshox and he fitted it to his RM125B featured in VMX issue #15.

 Mark, how did you end up with that swingarm, was the bike Rahier rode here a full works bike or something Suzuki Australia built up with some works parts on it?

Stan.

[firko]

Mark, how did you end up with that swingarm, was the bike Rahier rode here a full works bike or something Suzuki Australia built up with some works parts on it?

Stan, I bought a bunch of Maicos ('84 SC500, '81 MC490, '80 mc440 and '77 AW400) from Wollongong legend Karl Kremer and accompanying the Maicos came a huge swag of Maico (and other) parts which included the swingarm. I called Karl back to find out its story and he told me its Rahier history and that he'd got it along with some other Suzuki bits from Anthony Gunter.

Karl was also selling an RM500 he reckoned had been one of Anthony Gunters rides. It appeared to have a lot of tricky stuff like Fox Forx and even some works bibs and bobs according to old Karl. He offered me the Suzuki for $1000 but I had to politely decline as I'd spent all of my moolah on the Maicos. DOH!!!

[Stan S]

Stan, I bought a bunch of Maicos ('84 SC500, '81 MC490, '80 mc440 and '77 AW400) from Wollongong legend Karl Kremer and accompanying the Maicos came a huge swag of Maico (and other) parts which included the swingarm. I called Karl back to find out its story and he told me its Rahier history and that he'd got it along with some other Suzuki bits from Anthony Gunter.

Yeah Mark, that swing arm and AG's RM500 would have been very cool peices of Australian MX history to have kept.
I'm very curious as to what you thought of that 84 SC500 if you got ride it.

Stan.

[JohnnyO]

While on the subject of Gunter i think it's cool he got his original Mr Motocross winning RM400 back and is now using it at CD events.

[Davey Crocket]

Somebody else has got one of his bikes back to do up for the same JohnnyO.......it will be a good battle.

[oldfart]

Yeah but he has do more than 2 laps 

[firko]

I'm very curious as to what you thought of that 84 SC500 if you got ride it.

Stan there are two bikes I've owned over the years that I really regret selling, one was a Champion framed SC500 Yamaha flat tracker and the other was the Maico SC500 (It's a weird coincidence that they're both SC500's and that I sold 'em to the same bloke 15 years apart.)

The Maico was/is an absolute rocket, probably the best Maico I ever rode. I found it to be quite a different bike to ride to the '81 490 because of the different engine characteristics. The '81 models chain primary and the '84 models geared primary produce totally different engine dynamics to the point that even though they're both the same capacity Maicos, you'd swear they came from different factories. I reckon the '84 is an easier bike to ride despite a strong tendency to wheelie. The single shock rear end worked great as they'd fixed the linkage ratio problems that marred the '82 model. If Maico had released this bike in '82 it would have killed the opposition and Maico might not have gone to the wall.

This forums Slakewell had a guest ride on the '84 (Big Red as we named her) at the last Amaroo Park vintage meeting and he raved about the bike at the time. He was pissed at me for selling it . 

[VMX247]

We had gaston in Auckland at our club track and all photos have since disapeared.

 :'(  :'(