Located on the eastern outskirts of Tokyo in the Japanese prefecture of Chiba comes today’s ultra rare find: a Suzuki RGB500 race bike. Created by the factory to outfit privateer racers, the RGB500 was steadily improved over the years in the direction of – but always slightly behind – the full factory effort. Still, this…
8.28.2019: This bike has SOLD! Congratulations to buyer and seller! -dc In our efforts to bring you, the reader, the very best of the best, RSBFS humbly offers you an honest-to-god, fire-breathing privateer Suzuki RGB500 GP bike! This is no ordinary Gamma converted for track usage. This is a bespoke racer – originally offered by…
Suzuki’s RG500Γ “Gamma” didn’t actually use a detuned version of the racing RGB500’s engine, but at least shared that machine’s square four two-stroke configuration, so it looked and felt like it could have been developed from the real thing. The specifications were certainly unlike anything else on the road: twin cranks, disc valves, four cylinders…
This time of year, really interesting sportbikes can be a little thin on the ground, so our online searches naturally take us farther afield. In this case, all the way to Japan for a 1983 Suzuki RGB500 that was the Grand Prix racing inspiration for the two-stroke RG500Γ. This Mk8 version was highly-developed, although the…
This gorgeous Suzuki RGB500 is for sale in California and Tad wrote it up on our sister site, Classic SportBikes For Sale. Here is an excerpt: Ridden by such luminaries as Barry Sheene and Randy Mamola, the two-stroke Suzuki RGB500 was eventually developed into the dominant machine you see here, but it went through a…
A quick browse of the archives serves as a great reminder that this isn’t an “ordinary Suzuki RG500”, it’s a full on factory racebike, the RGB500. This example has a rather thin description but like many bikes on eBay it could be listed to see what interest may be out there and further investigation will…
“B” Is For Bitchin: 1983 RGB500 MK8 That “B” means a lot, this isn’t your buddy’s RG500. Not to take anything away from the street-going Gammas, but the RGB version of this bike is the true factory Grand Prix bike made available to well-heeled teams in very limited numbers. With no concessions to the EPA,…
Springtime And Square Fours: 1986 Suzuki RG500 Update 8.31.2011: Back on eBay with one day left. Good catch Mike! It looks like there will be one less two stroke marauding the hills of Kentucky this Spring. Your neighbors might disagree but these cool Spring mornings and evenings need to filled with the sound of rattling two…
