Team Classic Suzuki has unveiled its lockdown project build; a Katana inspired by the GSX-R1000 World Superbike racer.

Suzuki has announced a new finance offer across its V-twin models – including the retro-café racer styled the SV650X and the V-Strom 650 and 1050 ranges.

Take a closer look at some of the most desirable Suzuki motorcycles on the planet.

Classic Dirt Bike checks out a 1970 370RN Suzuki development model.

Effort and expertise transform a ‘so what’ 1980s streetbike into a ‘so wow!’ café custom WORDS & PHOTOS by Carl Bennett BARELY NOTICED BY anyone, Suzuki’s unassuming air-cooled GS450 parallel twin quietly served thousands of

I really liked Steve Cooper’s article on the TC range. As a bit of a side order I have owned RV 125cc sand bikes since 1974. They came in three sizes – 50cc, 90cc and

The Suzuki Hayabusa failed to raise many eyebrows when it was announced in 1998. When the bike hit the showrooms in 1999, however, everyone started talking.

Last month, Steve Cooper showed us that Suzuki’s TM400 dirt bike was something of a loose cannon and, ultimately, doomed to ignominy in the archives of motocross history. Now he tells us what happened next…

Was Suzuki’s big TM the final frontier? Steve Cooper goes where no man has gone before to reveal the truth. In late 1969 or early 1970 someone at Suzuki’s Hamamatsu HQ came up with the

Words and photographs: Phil Aynsley This month in our Iconic Metal series it’s the turn of the factory Suzuki XR88 to fall under Phil Aynsley’s lens. This was the motorcycle campaigned by both Nobuatsu Aoki

Words: Alan Cathcart Photos: Phil Aynsley Monocoque-framed bikes – in which the fuel is carried within the chassis, not in a separate tank – have been the next big thing for more than half a

It was the choice of a generation, and that generation happened to coincide with the golden era of two-stroke road bikes.

Although not strictly a race team inspired paint job, this Early-Stocks Suzuki GS1000 caught our eye.

We love receiving nostalgic snaps of you back in the day with your steed!

Something of an evolution of the official Suzuki square four it might have been, but the TSR did at least look to new avenues of frame design to keep competitive. The name was bond… Ciba-Geigy

“No self-respecting mechanic would attempt such guerrilla tactics, and rightly so, but these Jap singles rock!”

Certain bike-and-rider combinations seem made for each other, to the point where it’s hard to mention one without thinking of the other. Carl Fogarty and the Ducati 916; Mick Doohan and the Honda NSR500; Valentino

Check out Paul Farrell’s Suzuki DR650!

Since the May 2018 issue of CMM we’ve been following our Aussie mate Jeff Ware’s loving restoration of his great, late mate Helmut Phillip’s Suzuki RG500.

Suzuki GSX-R600 tested! Honda Firestorm! Kawasaki Tengai! This edition of Classic Motorcycle Mechanics has got it all!

Check out Ian McElroy’s Yamaha RZ350 and his 1990 Suzuki RGV250.

Scoop rides a bike he almost bought and comes away smiling: Suzuki’s GT250 Ram Air…

Tim Hart has sent us a photo of his ‘07 Suzuki 4 T500. “I thought I’d send Rod a picture of my latest project to help speed his recovery,” emails Tim Hart. How about this

Matthew Marling of Perth, Western Australia has sent us this picture of his 1985 Suzuki RG250 which he has been rebuilding for the last eight months. “I’m painting all the decals myself using masking tape

“Always the bridesmaid, never the bride”; If you’re into 1970s classics then that phrase may strike a chord with you when run alongside Suzuki’s GT550. For reasons that are as biased as they are inaccurate,

Back on the road and looking great in Candy Lavender is Mark McKinney’s 1971 Suzuki T500R that’s just been restored with parts sourced from New Zealand, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Singapore, Australia, Canada and the

Steve Durham of Richmond, North Yorks picked up this GS550 January of 2006 after it had been standing in a friends drive for six months. “As you can see, the bike is very original, even

With the new-for-2019 Suzuki Katana polarising opinions (we love it) perhaps this will change your mind?

Check out Paul Cole’s Suzuki Katana! 

What about Glenn Watkins’ Suzuki GSX-R1100? 

Take a look at CMM reader Martin Church’s 
1992 Suzuki RGV250N!

Check out Andy Gordon’s 
1971 Suzuki TT350!

The formula for any truly great sporting machine is an easy one to concoct, despite many trying and failing in the past.

We’ve dived into the archives for this one! In our April edition, 2007 Malcolm sent his Suzuki GT380! 

How does a bored-out GSX-R1000 K5 in Slabbie styling sound to you?

Check out Guy Taylor’s Suzuki GT250M!

Check out Neil Bell’s Katana!

The mid-80s was a good time for muscle bikes like the GSX1100. 

Throughout the 1950s Eddie Crooks was an outstanding motorcycle sport competitor, with highlights that included three international six-day trial gold medals, a second place finish in the 1953 Junior Clubman’s TT and a Senior Manx

This could be a reality tomorrow, would you want it?

Our very own wizened sages, Messrs Mark Haycock and Steve Cooper are here to answer all of your woes, be they mechanical or spiritual.

We rebooted the KR250 into a KR500 and realised we’d actually completed the set of 500s from the big four Japanese marques.

“It’s a sensible question especially since I’ve owned this particular one for 14 years.”

Take a look at Paul Water’s 1979 Suzuki TS250ER!

Check out Bleddyn Adams’ GSX-R600 SRAD and ZRX1200S.

Check out Mark Bett’s Suzuki GSX-R!

Check out longtime CMM reader Mat’s collection including Suzuki TL1000R and and GSXR 1100!

Take a look at Brett Ryan’s 1974 Suzuki GT250.

In this edition of Show Us Yours, here’s Javier’s including RD350 and RG250.

Our experts Mark Haycock and Steve Cooper are back with all the answers to your questions! 

In this edition of Show Us Yours, take a look at Rob Neal’s Suzuki RV90.

There’s an understandable beam of pride that comes from Tim Davies and Nathan Colombi when either of the two men talk about the Suzuki GB/Team Classic Suzuki Katana race bike – and it could be

Kevin Schwantz’s 1989 Pepsi Suzuki RGV500 was restored to full working order at the recent Motorcycle LIVE event. The iconic Grand Prix machine was completely stripped, before being carefully and meticulously restored by Team Classic

VISITORS to the upcoming Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show – October 14-15 – will have the opportunity to get up close to a variety of rare Suzukis, including the two RG500s which Barry Sheene

Advertisement feature Two of Barry Sheene’s iconic World Championship winning Suzuki RG500 motorcycles will be on display at the end of this month during the annual Cumbria Steam Gathering. Alongside Sheene’s machines, The Broke FMX

Our CMM expert Steve Cooper answers YOUR questions!

Q: I’m a reader of Classic Motorcycle Magazine  and a massive fan of motorbikes. I’ve just turned 16 and got my first bike – a Suzuki TS50X and want more power. I have looked for all the

Q: I discovered your mag last year and a have been a reader ever since. I’m hoping, with all your years of accumulated experience, you may be able to help. CMM has inspired me to

Q: My cruiser has recently developed an intermittent engine rattle, on tick-over the engine is okay, it seems to occur as I ride in top gear about 40-50mph, and as I lightly accelerate through the

Q: The headlamp bowl was rusty and my mate gave me a new chrome one. Foolisly, I accepted and removed the headlamp in order to replace it. As you may know, in the shell there

Q: I recently purchased a 1986 GSX R750G. It is a Jap import, but I have read in your magazine that these bike are restricted to 75bhp and it certainly does not feel as quick

Q: I am trying to find an aftermarket a 4-into-1 complete exhaust system for my 1100WT with no success. Could you tell me if any other models will bolt straight on, maybe a 1200 Bandit

Q: With a cold engine it doesn’t respond to quick throttle openings. There is a bit of a difference once the engine is warm-though from about 55mph upwards, when the throttle is open to accelerate,

Yet again I had to admit my negative judgement wasn’t just premature, but inappropriate too. After assessing bikes for not far short of a couple of decades now, you’d think I should know better. Being

Updated just twice during its 16-year lifetime, we’re not sure we can wait for the next Hayabusa so we conjured up our own. 1998 was a great year for Superbikes not only did Yamaha gift

If Suzuki built a big-bore two-stroke, it might just look like this. Welcome to our recreation of the awesome RG500 square four and the RGV250 V-twin… 1985 was the year Suzuki’s RG500 long-awaited answer to

Contributors to this fine publication Steve ‘Stavros’ Parrish and James Whitham join Team Classic Suzuki at this year’s Endurance Legends event at Donington Park. The event – backed by CMM – takes place over the

In this edition of Show Us Yours, take a look at Paul Williams’ 1980 Suzuki GSX750ET. Want to see your pride and joy in our magazine, on our website and on our social media pages?

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If a new V-twin sportsbike appeared via Japan, we can only hope it’ll come from Suzuki, as they created a monster back in the 1990s.

Q: My bike was involved in a crash and came down on the right hand (timing cover) side. All the electronic ignition pick-ups have been replaced by a previous owner with parts from a GS1000. I

Q: My new bike is a Suzuki RV90 running 6v magneto electrics. Needless to say the lights are feeble, the stop lamp glows dismally and indicators don’t. Apart from making sure all connectors and earth

Q: I have recently got my 1979 Suzuki GS850G fuel meter to work but the wiring is incorrect. I cannot as yet find the live feed from the meter to the tank gauge (due to

It arrived in 1980 in a background of gasps – the public didn’t quite know what to make of the fastest the Suzuki ever.

If you love Suzukis and are heading for the CMM Stafford Show this October, boy are you in for a treat. Over the weekend of October 15-16, the 23rd Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show

Steve Cooper fondly remembers Suzuki’s largest air-cooled two-stroke triple – the excellent but often overlooked GT550  

How do you turn a bland UJM into a genuine Japanese classic? You add style, of course. Rowena Hoseason has a thing about pop-up headlights...

Four-pot Japanese classics are over-complicated, tricky to maintain and expensive to run, right? Not quite. Steve Bergman has clocked up over 120,000 miles on the cut-rate Katana and reckons it has real classic cred...

Suzuki Motor Corporation has produced this short promotional video for its MotoGP return aboard the GSX-RR in 2015.

If you really fancy something a little different, something with a little extra bolted on, then try Suzuki's XN85 Turbo, arguably the best looking bike of the genre...

After sorting through the pile of bits last month I’m now ready to start reassembling Jason’s GS750 engine...

Twenty-five years ago, the young Rod Ker always thought the GS750 was a better bike than its 1000cc successor. So it’s with some reluctance that we have to report that this test has done nothing to change the churlish Mr. Ker’s mind...

Three of Suzuki’s top engineers will be joining Steve Wheatman’s Classic Suzuki Race Team at the Classic TT in August. Tadano Matsui, Masaru Iwasaki and Makoto Suzuki are flying in especially for the event...

The 900s were the class of the 1990s but the Suzuki RF900R was in a class of one: rapid, radical looks and ridiculously cheap...

There are occasions when common sense and practicality out-trump kudos and macho posturing. There are also times when you need a no nonsense, no frills machine that’ll do the job with the minimum of fuss and effort and at low cost...

Factory race bikes that fall into private hands are a rare enough thing. Finding out you may just own one by chance is even more so. But that is exactly what happened to Tony Salt when he bought a RG500 to parade. Malc Wheeler gets the lowdown...

Suzuki has announced the addition of the iconic GT750 Kettle to its popular Vintage Parts Programme revealing that it has more than 1100 genuine parts still available for the sought after two-stroke...

The early 80s was a hot-bed of motorcycle development where two-strokes took on four. Suzuki built both. The GSX-R750 and RG500 were about as hot as it got. 25 years on CMM stages a re-match...

Rod Ker is reminded of breezing along through a blue haze of burnt two stroke oil when he rides the smallest of Suzuki’s three-cylinder trio...

Suzuki’s GT185 two-stroke twin typified Japanese lightweights of the early 70s: conventionally styled but with generous and sporty detailing. But, as John Nutting recalls from when he tested it in 1973, the glitter concealed some peculiarities

Suzuki, like Kawasaki, adopted the two stroke triple engine in the seventies, but it offered a more rounded product than its performance rivals...

Following the success of the GSX series and Katanas, Suzuki upped the ante with the first GSXRs. A thinly disguised street legal race bike, the GSXR750 was an instant success...

The 125 that escaped Suzuki’s crusher. John Nutting describes how the exotic Suzuki RS68 125cc four, the last works racer of the 60s, was liberated from obscurity

Despite the total lack of logic to the basic arithmetic involved, certain machines just somehow conspire to be greater than the sum of their component parts...

At the time Suzuki’s GT550 was probably the ideal two-stroke triple but has somehow become one of the 70s most overlooked machines. We take another look...

Owners of RGV250s can benefit from a discounted parts rate for their machines, thanks to Suzuki’s Bike of the Month scheme...

Suzuki produced a wealth of lightweight off-road machines in the 60s and 70s and the TS250 proved to be one of the company’s most enduring model...

Rod Gibson had already dismantled the Suzuki GT750 down in his workshop and we start the online feature at the first stage of reassembly. With the engine to one side, Rod concentrated on the cycle parts, having already arranged for the metalwork to be powder coated...