Slab side 750
Make: Suzuki
Model: GSX-R
Displacement: 750cc
Location: Beaumont, CA
Mileage: 12,909 miles
Price: $18,500 OBO
Looking through our RSBFS archives we found one of these with only 682 miles was sold for $12,400 back in 2012.
Doug posted one in 2021 that had 25,300 miles and was asking $8,000… mileage matters.
Looking at the history of the GSX-R, it is cool to see the words of Hiroshi Fujiwara, who was in charge of the basic layout of the first model. In a Total Motorcycle article he vividly recalls the excitement of his team at the beginning of the project. “This pure Supersport model was our first 750cc bike featuring an aluminum frame of unprecedented light weight and superb torsional rigidity. We had no real competitors in the market, other than factory racing machines.”
Motorcycle Classics also covered the GSX-R750 for ’86 & ’87 giving us insights about the design, “Designer Etsuo Yokouchi was obsessed with minimizing mass, so he decided on air/oil cooling rather than adding water jackets, a radiator and a pump. By 1986, though, he was swimming against the tide. The Other Three had all switched their premium 750 sport bikes to liquid cooling. Yokouchi chose instead to rely on a high-volume, low-pressure pump to circulate up to 10 liters of oil per minute through the cylinder head, using fins and a king-size oil cooler to dissipate heat. Bottom end lubrication and piston-cooling oil jets were fed by a conventional high-pressure pump.”
Seller
A very rare 1987 GSXR 750, Maybe one of a few in the world like this… a non-restoration, did replace lots of parts with NOS just a few on the outside not replaced like the front fender the seat and the gas tank. Just about the rest on the outside is NOS.12,909 on the mileage vehicle is in So Cal , asking $18,500. Also comes with the original exhaust and original jetting. Also the bike has been ceramic coated as well.
We have a soft-spot for first generation Gixxers. Blue or red, take your pick. We love them!
