Thursday, September 18, 2014

This Suzuki has a moving cover for the gauges, I've never seen that before!




1 comment:

  1. I think this is a 1975 model. They had a rotary engine and got rather poor gas mileage, a buddy of mine bought one and we used to tease him about having a bun warmer on his bike.

    Suzuki commissioned Italian industrial designer Giorgetto Giugiaro for the RE5 styling.[18][19] The "tin can" instrument cluster encompassed the usual lights and a low-fuel warning light, total loss oil tank light and digital gear indicator.[20] This tubular "can" motif was also used in the tail light, and spherical indicator lights finished off the "rotary" theme. The 1976 "A" model returned to more conventional styling. Suzuki expected its sales teams to promote the model alongside the 1977 model GS750,[21] but production had already ceased. The UK-based Rotary Owner's Club records the earliest serial number as 10049 and the highest 16291. From this total production, numbers of something more than 6,000 bikes for both models are indicated.[6]

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