RG 500 French hillclimb

[tigertim20]

fuuuuckn sick bro! cheers for posting that up.

oh what I would give to have a 500cc 2 stroke race rep thing.. iv seen ones built out of rg400 motors from road bikes and build them like motogp reps..

are there any bike 400/500cc 2 stroke road bikes in nz even?

I'v been on like the 500cc kawasaki h1 triple but that things never gonna be the right motor for a gp rep

there a 2 stroke 5 hundy down at MCR sometimes.
rick said its 'not for sale'
apparently test rides are out of the question too . . .

[tri boy]

I miss the 80's.
Living at the bottom of the Parapara, and all my mates owned stinky road bikes like Rz500/250/Rg500 or/FZ750/Vf750F..............
Few mates made the ultimate sacrifice though.

[HenryDorsetCase]

single sided swingarm? wassthat all about?

you're absolutely right: I looked at that but didnt SEE it. no idea. it does appear to have four pipes, implying 4 cylinders. retrofit honda one maybe? it looks kind of like an NC30 wheel

fascinating

[HenryDorsetCase]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/teamher...7623302220692/

this looks a bit special too.

[Kickaha]

totally different beast IMO. that video is of the RG500 production racebike (XR series): they have no parts in common with the RG400/500 Gamma road bikes they're more like the Yamaha TZ racebikes and the TZR roadbikes.

I lust after the road bikes as well. Allegedly there are a few XR69's floating about in NZ that come out to play occasionally.

XR series included the F1 diesel (XR69)as well as the two strokes, the two strokes were still called Rg500 Mk1 etc (or was that the "customer" bikes?), I've seen one at Ruapuna that came from Invercargill can't remember what version it was though


http://www.racing-motorcycles.co.uk/specials.php

[SMOKEU]

There's always this here if you want a 500cc 2 smoker that's road legal. Not quite the same as a race rep, but hooning around on a 2 stroke motard will sure be fun!

[Stylo]

Short & sweet. Just posted coz it sounds lurvaly, probably in the wrong place, though.

Cool Vid Mr Formby .....

[dragonz]

The bike featured in the video did in fact start life as a road bike. Tried to find some info on it on the gamma list, but haven't the time to dig back that far.
The swingarm is RC30 single sider as guessed by one of the posters however.
The bike from memory was putting 135hp on the ground.
There are a few out there in the 150hp range!
I'm currently rebuilding one of these motors to go into a supermodified quad :-)

[gammaguy]

fuuuuckn sick bro! cheers for posting that up.

oh what I would give to have a 500cc 2 stroke race rep thing.. iv seen ones built out of rg400 motors from road bikes and build them like motogp reps..

are there any bike 400/500cc 2 stroke road bikes in nz even?

I'v been on like the 500cc kawasaki h1 triple but that things never gonna be the right motor for a gp rep

***waves***

[Brian d marge]

Hopefully, the week after I do. We can race our helicopters round the place, and compete as to who can spend the most on Jack Daniels and hookers.

please import them otherwise that’s a disgusting dream ..eeeeuuuuwwwww

Stephen

[Bender]

Except it's not an RG500 unless they just happened to paint it blue and put Yamaha on the tank.

YZR500 maybe.

[george formby]

Except it's not an RG500 unless they just happened to paint it blue and put Yamaha on the tank.

YZR500 maybe.

If your going to be like that you can play with your own toys

Definitely has a mixed heritage.

I'm reading a book at the mo in which Kenny Roberts claims that Yamaha & Suzuki had the technology to make highly fuel efficient, clean 2t's back in the 80's. They were already experimenting with electronic engine management systems, fuel injection etc all that time ago.
If only......

[avgas]

Years ago saw one of these in a shop in Auckland. Have lusted for it ever since.

[Eddieb]

are there any bike 400/500cc 2 stroke road bikes in nz even?

I had a mildly worked RG400 years ago, not very good handling but it would wheelie off the throttle in 1st and 2nd.

[gammaguy]

I had a mildly worked RG400 years ago, not very good handling but it would wheelie off the throttle in 1st and 2nd.

cant have been very well set up then

mine handles super

and yes i have ridden all the latest stuff and it still compares very well

although mine is properly set up

as for first gear wheelies,the 400 has such a low first that it will climb lampposts in first