1986 Suzuki RG 500, 498cc. Registration number C898 BOT. Fra...

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£7,000

1986 Suzuki RG 500, 498cc. Registration number C898 BOT. Frame number HM31A-104433. Engine number 105340.
It is sold with the V5 and a box of spares that came with the bike.
Derived from Suzuki’s 500cc RG Gamma XR45 factory Grand Prix racer, the Suzuki RG500 was a road-legal replica racer produced between 1985 and 1987.
Barry Sheene achieved back-to-back 500cc championship titles in 1976 and 1977 before the Gallina Suzuki team repeated the feat five years later with riders Marco Lucchinelli and Franco Uncini in 1981 and 1982.
To capitalize on their reputation Suzuki decided to develop a production version of its competition square-four machine based on the XR45’s race-bred 130 hp unit.
The engine produced 95 hp at 9,500rpm and 53ft-lbs of torque at 8,000rpm. Weighing in at just 340lbs dry, the RG500 offered a top speed of over 130mph and could achieve quarter-mile runs in 11-seconds. The engine had rotary valves and twin-cranks, it featured Mikuni 28mm flat-side carbs, an exhaust utilizing SAEC (Suzuki Automatic Exhaust Control), a six-speed cassette-style gearbox and thermostatically controlled liquid-cooling.
BOT was owned by Clive Boreham in 1991 and then by Ian Dickinson in 2000. Our vendor bought it from him but did not register that with DVLA. Is has been converted to a race bike and the engine is seized, although the gearbox appears to operate normally.
It is sold with the V5 and a box of spares that came with the bike.