my new (old bike)
 

bought it a few weeks ago. its already 15 years old :eek:

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Nice dude, congrats...... I loved having a bike....

I should buy another....

damn that is one clean bike for 15 yrs

Wait... is that a RG500 ? Where do you live? If in the US, you lucky bastard, considering 0 were officially imported! Cool ride!
Out of all vintage sportbikes, you may have purchased the coolest.

yeah i am just a little south of you (tennessee) :D
always wanted a rg 500 and this one was for sale in tennessee with a tennessee title. i could not resist.

Very clean, nice bike. :)

I burn with envy. Enjoy the glorious masterpiece of your square four two-stroking :D

PS: To those who have no idea why I'm so envious of his "15 year old bike "... the RG500 is the closest thing to a MotoGP bike ever released for the street, in terms of powerplant. 500cc of technological two-stroke wonder. Had an odd square 4 engine layout... two sets of two cylinders with 2 crankshafts. Suspension was far ahead of the day.

Granted , it is not as fast as a new GSXRs as they have pushed the edge of performance past sane, but it is the pinnacle of two-stroke streetbikes built. I'd say a mildly modified RG500 is comparable in speed to an oil cooled GSXR750 (<96') or a pre 2000 GSXR600.

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I am also very impressed. That bike is amazingly clean looking, not to mention rare, as Boo said. Very, very cool.

that is damn nice........congrats

thanks everyone for the kind words.
Boo i am really impressed that you know so much about this bike. most people in the usa have no idea what it is. do you own a bike? if yes what do you have?

I own a 1974 Suzuki TS400 dual-sport ( basically, all I could afford while paying for my own school ) that I'm currently trying to make a "vintage supermoto" out of. It has the same wheel sizes as an XR600L, so I can get decent tires for it. The engine is pretty good, and can make 40hp (more than a KLR650) with an ignition and cylinder head swap.

I like modern bikes too, but don't plan on buying one for a couple of years. I'll get my fill of vintage bikes while in college.