strokers

[Jockney Rebel]

got any pics of big strokers RG500 RD500 H2 GT750 that have been fightered ?:D[8D]

[Gix11]

The closest we have in the gallery is from France mate:

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/images/gallery/suz/french_rg500/500RGC1.jpg

You should recognise Suzuki's finest 2 stroke mental machine.

[alfiestorm]

I am trying like mad to get hold of a bloke in portsmouth who has a fightered gt550 done real nice with slingshot running gear,home made dash and it looks real minamalist?
If I can find him I will get him on hear or the very least a few pics or the bike

[Tone]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/15648358551075.jpg
Always liked this one.

[alfiestorm]

I bet that would sound fukin awesome. where's it from?

[Jockney Rebel]

quote:Originally posted by Tone

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/15648358551075.jpg
Always liked this one.
thsts the dogs bollox

[Jockney Rebel]

quote:Originally posted by Gix11

The closest we have in the gallery is from France mate:

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/images/gallery/suz/french_rg500/500RGC1.jpg

You should recognise Suzuki's finest 2 stroke mental machine.
yes indeed very nice i do like the fact that the engines so simple

Streetfightered waterbottle?

you are joking aren't ya frankie? That'd be like streetfightering a GL1000, or a beemer R series, ya could do it, but would ya tell ya mates? and neither of the last 2 sound like that fuckin frog.

[Jockney Rebel]

dunno chalkie surely a 750cc 2stroke triple can be made to scare some modern stuff?

A widow maker? sure, but not the water bottle mate, it was a fat slug


And there's enough of us riding streetfighters without actually making streefighters out of them :D

[Jockney Rebel]

were they really that bad? never rode one but based onthe 550 i used to hsve i thot they would be more of the same

[Jockney Rebel]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/15648483361975.jpg anyway this a guy in austria s rd vary cool wayne rainey rep

[Jockney Rebel]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/15648486936527.jpg and this is my idea of a neat H1[poxy colour tho]

[Tone]

http://kawasakitriplesworldwide.com/
This is the site Alfie,kwacktripcity!

[Tone]

quote:Originally posted by frankenbiker

were they really that bad? never rode one but based onthe 550 i used to hsve i thot they would be more of the same

A couple of guys I worked with had the 750 and 550 Suzukis and neither could live with the kwackas,not even my old S2 350...when it ran for more than 10 miles (that's 16 kilometres,oops,wrong thread) without fouling up the plugs.A bloke I know has an ace H2 and another in pieces,he won't sell it to me for anything and his neighbour is into the salt flat runs on a water bottle 750.I think he was in two wheels a coupla years ago.I'll see if I've still got the article.

quote:Originally posted by frankenbiker

were they really that bad? never rode one but based onthe 550 i used to hsve i thot they would be more of the same


Unforunately yes. They were basically another GL1000, a touring machine. Engine was tuned for torque, and the water cooling added HUGE amounts of weight.

[Hillsy]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/15648504538460.jpg

Apparrently they can be made to go fast

I think any engine in that, non original, running gear would go fast.

[Rocket]

I'd own a Suzuki GT750 in a heartbeat !

[pommie]

i had a 400 triple for 15 years, never fowled a plug, sad to sell it as i had it from when i was 17. still had the original pistons & rings, still have a one owner GT250 hustler, could fighter that. love the 2 strokes, had a RD500, now put that engine in a Gixer 750 frame & that would be something

[Hillsy]

I'd own this sucker, no problem....

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/15648504587642.jpg

[Hillsy]

Bloody Google.....I like this, too....

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/15648504559729.jpg

[megareg]

Having owned, as my first bike, a mach III Kawasaki then a Suzi GT750J and then a GT750L, I feel that I could have a small input here...

I learnt to ride on the Mach III, it was bloody fast, didn't handle that well, I used to put it on its back wheel around a corner... mainly due to the fact that when you wound the throttle on, nothing happened until around 3 revs later when you got into the powerband, the J model waterbottle I bought after the Mach III was a very smooth runner, yes it was heavy in comparison, it had more torque (used to eat my mates Hoonda 750 four), it was also the first bike I went drag racing on, I got a 14.7 on it, the L model had twin discs on the front, not 4 leading shoe drum, handled better, stopped better (obviously) and I had a Peter Allen 3 into 1 on it, it went well, my next bike was a GSX1100. Looking back on those bikes, the MachIII was wicked, but the Suzi's were civilised, as far as speed goes, there was nothing wrong with the Suzi's, all you have to do is ask the late, great, Barry Sheene how quick they were... 170 MPH crash at Daytona!
Now, getting back to comparing to a GL1000 for example... I was fortunate enough to be able to compare my J model to one, sure, I did not have as much power, but I was quicker around corners, in fact, there were not too many people that could keep up with me in the twisties (in our group anyway).
If I still had one of those bikes, I would be making a cafe racer of it, i feel that there was more development in the waterbottles rather than the Mach III.

Also, remember, this was the 70's, there was not much difference in the definition of a tourer or a sports bike, I always like to think that the Katana defined what a sports bike was supposed to do... but then I'm biased.

Cheers
Reg.

[Jockney Rebel]

wicked who said oil burners were dead and gone? right who wants to sell me a rg 500 in bits for a crate of beer............:}

[Jockney Rebel]

Most of my experience with strokers was in the 70's and early 80's when i was a teenager ive owned 8 air cooled RDs [I still reckon a decent tuned 350B was man enough to take on its peers and bikes twice its size] , 2 suzi triples, and 2 KH250s.
The 380 was the most civilised of the lot very smooth little bike but my RD would ve destroyed it
,the Gt550 was an ill tempered unreliablke but boy could it shift,
and last but not least the KHs ....i know the late 250s were fairly emasculated but they seemed to lack the urge of the X7. or the RD

I still miss the smell of burnt oil tho and sunday mornings cleaning ur plugs and de coking the baffles with caustic in the bath, mum threatening physical violence if i dont stop revving the bike outside with no baffles in ................

[Tone]

quote:Originally posted by pommie

i had a 400 triple for 15 years, never fowled a plug,

I also had an S3 pommie,different bike completely to the 350.Never missed a beat and compared to the other triples I had, handled reasonably well...ish!Wish I still had any of em.

There's a vid on the net somewhere that perfectly espouses what the water bottle was really like.

They turned it into a tea kettle :D

And it still sounded shit!

PS the 76' GS750 shat all over it, in all areas.

[nelpd96]

I know this is a little on the random side but has anyone considered fitting up a 2 stoke engine from a jet ski into something like a Slabby frame. I have a feeling that the bigger jetski engines push out around the 150hp mark from a 3 cly 750.

Cheers
Paul

[Booster]

Waterbottles were interesting to ride, big hinge in the middle of the frame and non folding footpegs, binned one on the Kew yarra bend park cos of those footpegs, but went well in a straight line.

Steve with the landspeed bottle has run 155mph but keeps burning pistons.

[Hillsy]

quote:Originally posted by nelpd96

I know this is a little on the random side but has anyone considered fitting up a 2 stoke engine from a jet ski into something like a Slabby frame. I have a feeling that the bigger jetski engines push out around the 150hp mark from a 3 cly 750.

Cheers
Paul


I hadn't thought about jet ski donks, but I was thinking about larger 2 stroke outboard donks - the bigger ones are V4's and they can get up to around 175 HP. They look pretty compact as well. Would certainly make an interesting powerplant for a bike.

[scotty mac]

we picked it up like this with 28k on the clock
.its an 83 model it had been sitting for about 8 years
in the back of a shed.

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/86003656077847.JPG

6 months later....

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/86003656073131.JPG

it took about 12 months to finish then it sat for another
3 years....

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/86003656042873.JPG

[Matt]

I would love an RZ500 one day...

[Jockney Rebel]

cant wait to see what voiod s 750 lc s like.... if its got power valves or not
what d y reckon ouput will be? considerin the 350 knocked out nigh on 50 hp

anyone come across any fightered rg500s radical ones ..is there big bore kits for them ?

[voivod]

there is a 6cyl rg 750 out there...will try to find a link...sounded awesome
Looks like am not gonna start the 750 till I get over....would hate to build it then have to dismantle to come over :(
It hasnt powervalves ...but am sure that wont matter ;)
There is a load of stroker forums u should look into....there are cheeta 450 kits for ypvs ...fuel injectin and turbos...( wish I was rich ;) )
Are rd500's available in Aus?...would like one of them :)

[Jockney Rebel]

quote:Originally posted by voivod

there is a 6cyl rg 750 out there...will try to find a link...sounded awesome
Looks like am not gonna start the 750 till I get over....would hate to build it then have to dismantle to come over :(
It hasnt powervalves ...but am sure that wont matter ;)
There is a load of stroker forums u should look into....there are cheeta 450 kits for ypvs ...fuel injectin and turbos...( wish I was rich ;) )
Are rd500's available in Aus?...would like one of them :)
yeah there called rz500s tho if u find that link for the 6pot rg id really like a look at it
so what dyu think ur bikes bhp will be like then ?

[mrgixxer]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/204192110132442.jpg

Have a pic of a Suzuki GT550

[Jockney Rebel]

a-fukn-mazin lov it would ve bin better with a kwak lump init tho but a lot of works gone into that :D

[Jockney Rebel]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/10602711199972.jpg
heres the first bike i ever tried to modify[pics from early 80's]notice its green? and as usual being green it blew up three times!!:D

[voivod]

here u are
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b15/reservoircogs/13-12-05048.jpg

sorry cannae find anymore pics they are off server

[Jockney Rebel]

jeez those pipes mustve took ages to make

[Jockney Rebel]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/524149362120659.jpg
thot this deserved a bit of a mention....

[Jockney Rebel]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/52414936276698.jpg
...this guy even made his own 6pot calipers....

[Jockney Rebel]

http://kawasakitriplesuk.com/ROGER-RAMMS-666-4-CYLINDER check this out

Ah the dying art of 2 cycle engines,everyone who's anyone will have precious memmories of this unpredictable vulgar display of power.Anyone got a spare 500cc 2 stroke air-cooled MX engine gathering dust in the shed? 465,480,490 will do but KX5 is what im really after.
cheers

[Jockney Rebel]

..just bin given a 1980 husky 250 dunno what its like yet [cos i aint seen it ] but anythings possible ...motard stylee

Apparently the Russians have an air-cooled V8 2-stroke, you could alwasy look at wrapping a bike frame around one of them.

Might wanna ride it through the Snowies in winter though, don't know how it would handle FNQ summers.

[DaveK5]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/97641749854149.jpg


Saw this on the net a while ago....It appears to be a 2 stroke,no chambers though guess,they wouldn't fit.

[cutcat]

Hey Davo, my mate has 8 KX500's from various years. I'll see if he has a spare donk.
I used to dragrace my RZ500 years ago. It was in perfect nick. I sold it to a friend and it hydraulicd on him and ruined the motor so he sold it to a wrecker, damn shame. Great handeling machine despite the bad wrap they got back then for twitchyness.
The RG500 was even faster, but all the bikes were snapped up and the motors ripped out for use in Formula 500 speedway carts. I can still get hold of complete RG500 rolling chassis's but motors are all history now, all blown up from over reving. And if you ever saw one in action you would know what I mean.
When I used to mess with my H2 750 triple motor I would talk to a drag racing guy in USA called Slipabes. He was getting over 200hp from his 750 triple..........yes you heard me over 200hp no nitrous! They were such a good motor, shame they are virtually just a part of history now.

[Jockney Rebel]

quote:Originally posted by chalk10

Apparently the Russians have an air-cooled V8 2-stroke, you could alwasy look at wrapping a bike frame around one of them.

Might wanna ride it through the Snowies in winter though, don't know how it would handle FNQ summers.
beleive it or not chalkie we had a couple of dump trucks with air cooled v8s[ dont know if they were 2Ts tho] in em from the ol USSR in our hire fleet apparently it gets so cold in siberia that normal anti freeze aint no good so liquid cooled engines present problems !

[Jockney Rebel]

quote:Originally posted by cutcat

Hey Davo, my mate has 8 KX500's from various years. I'll see if he has a spare donk.
I used to dragrace my RZ500 years ago. It was in perfect nick. I sold it to a friend and it hydraulicd on him and ruined the motor so he sold it to a wrecker, damn shame. Great handeling machine despite the bad wrap they got back then for twitchyness.
The RG500 was even faster, but all the bikes were snapped up and the motors ripped out for use in Formula 500 speedway carts. I can still get hold of complete RG500 rolling chassis's but motors are all history now, all blown up from over reving. And if you ever saw one in action you would know what I mean.
When I used to mess with my H2 750 triple motor I would talk to a drag racing guy in USA called Slipabes. He was getting over 200hp from his 750 triple..........yes you heard me over 200hp no nitrous! They were such a good motor, shame they are virtually just a part of history now.

i reckon u could make a nice cafe racer out of one of those KXs..and 200HP from a H2 is phenomenal:D

[cutcat]

Oh and I forgot to mention my friend put a 2 stroke, flat 4 out board motor into one of those speedway cars. He fuel injected it! It was very complex and he had heaps of reliability problems with the injection but when she was on song she was unbeatable. Far more torque than a motorcycle engine of the same size apparently.
The problem with running a jet ski motor is you don't have a gearbox.....bit of bummer!! Unless you want to run an old Norton box?

[scotty mac]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/95286935070849.jpg
it might not be fightered but she was quick for its time.my dad raced this back in the 70's.

[Jockney Rebel]

is that a n old t500

[scotty mac]

quote:Originally posted by frankenbiker

is that a n old t500
its an ol kwaka tripple 500.no wheelies bars back then.