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Offline cemotobull

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1975 RM 250
« on: August 01, 2014, 08:03:53 pm »
Guru's......, Is the 1975 RM 250 (with the laydown rear shocks) Pre 75 legal?
What year was the first RM? Cheers.

Offline Ted

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Re: 1975 RM 250
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2014, 08:08:54 pm »
75, 76, 77 Pre 78

1975
81 YZ 465 H   77 RM 125 B

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Re: 1975 RM 250
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2014, 08:14:54 pm »
Sigh.
Really, have you EVER seen an RM in a pre-75 race ?
Nostalgia's not what it used to be....

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Re: 1975 RM 250
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2014, 08:23:34 pm »
Thanks ted, I do recall seeing them around in the 70's. nice bit of kit. An old mate was thinking of selling his.

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Re: 1975 RM 250
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2014, 08:51:46 pm »
The first RM250 was a 1976 model, the only RM in 1975 was the RM125M & RM125S.

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Re: 1975 RM 250
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2014, 07:23:07 am »
^^ that ^^

However, I have seen a few RH75 250s being called RM250.  Have also seen a couple TM250M that have laid down shocks and some twit has altered the frame & engine numbers.
Poke that bone back in and wrap it up tight sport - I am racing the second moto.

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Re: 1975 RM 250
« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2014, 08:23:45 am »
As someone has already said the only RM that was a 1975 model was the RM125M and S.

Suzuki brought out a limit number of "works bike" RH Suzukis in 1975 (RH is 250, RN 500 class and RA 125).

I had a RH in 1975 and a RM125S.

And Pre 75 means before 1975 so 1974 model down.
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Re: 1975 RM 250
« Reply #7 on: August 07, 2014, 10:09:48 am »
Love those Rm125S and 75 RH 250s Kev , they really capture the transition era  :)
Its only old bike racing FFS get over yourselves





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Re: 1975 RM 250
« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2014, 01:41:49 pm »
Yes the RH (no need to call it a 250) had a great motor.  I traded mine in on a RM 250 A in 1976.  Anyway I did the gearbox on it at a meeting early in 1976.  The guy who had the RH let me ride it at the meeting.  The motor was a lot better than to RM.  Anyway after that Mayfairs the Qld Suzuki importer, who I was working for, swapped the RM 250 for a RM 370.  That was a great bike.
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Re: 1975 RM 250
« Reply #9 on: August 07, 2014, 02:33:21 pm »
I hope the RM 370s are as good as they say - I see mine in 1 week  ;D
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Re: 1975 RM 250
« Reply #10 on: August 07, 2014, 06:04:13 pm »
Bet no one has an RA. J

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Re: 1975 RM 250
« Reply #11 on: August 07, 2014, 06:56:43 pm »
I think Allan Tomkins had one in Australia in the early eighties.
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Re: 1975 RM 250
« Reply #12 on: August 07, 2014, 07:43:57 pm »
Love to see some photos. J

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Re: 1975 RM 250
« Reply #13 on: August 07, 2014, 08:10:45 pm »
No one ever had an RA in Oz. Rahier left some parts here that someone had on a RM125B

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Re: 1975 RM 250
« Reply #14 on: August 07, 2014, 08:58:18 pm »


Suzuki RA 125 1979