Suzuki SMX50 RMX50 owners

[bazbo]

Hey all, just wondering if there are any Suzuki SMX50 or RMX50 owners on here that might like to share tuning and riding experiences?
I have an SMX50 with 70cc athena, yasuni pipe, dellorto 21mm phbg carb, and she goes like stink. Love this bike.
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[Willdat?]

Hey all, just wondering if there are any Suzuki SMX50 or RMX50 owners on here that might like to share tuning and riding experiences?
I have an SMX50 with 70cc athena, yasuni pipe, dellorto 21mm phbg carb, and she goes like stink. Love this bike.
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I'm suspicious that I'm one of the few here that will have owned one - I've owned two infact - one SMX50 and one RMX50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYGf_N-ESsM here's the SMX.

The RMX was something I semi-convinced zeRax to ride the DB1K on, and then bought off him when he realised (IIRC) that it wasn't a sensible idea. Biggest ride I did was Nelson to Kaikoura and back the next day, seem to remember it taking about 4 hours - needed a tank every 100km as WOT all the time. Managed a top indicated speed of 110km/h.

[bazbo]

I'm suspicious that I'm one of the few here that will have owned one - I've owned two infact - one SMX50 and one RMX50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYGf_N-ESsM here's the SMX.

The RMX was something I semi-convinced zeRax to ride the DB1K on, and then bought off him when he realised (IIRC) that it wasn't a sensible idea. Biggest ride I did was Nelson to Kaikoura and back the next day, seem to remember it taking about 4 hours - needed a tank every 100km as WOT all the time. Managed a top indicated speed of 110km/h.

Awesome, was the RMX modded in anyway? I do wonder how many smx/rmx50's there are in the country, I read that Suzuki only brought in one container, but how many bikes is that? 20, 30?

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[bazbo]

and here is an oddity I have found with this bike.
I have just fitted an electronic tacho, and found that it need to be set to receive 2 sparks per revolution, otherwise it would read double the rpm.
Checked this with a little digital tachometer and confirmed that if the tachos are set to single cylinder 2 stroke settings (1 spark per revolution) then they read double.
So this indicates the the ignition is sparking twice per revolution, which is kinda odd. I have heard about 4 stroke wasted spark ignitions, but not 2 stroke.
Any ideas anyone? It's not an issue for me as my tacho can be set to 4stroke/4cylinder / 2 stroke 2 cylinder and then it reads correctly. I'd just like to know why!!!
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[Willdat?]

Awesome, was the RMX modded in anyway? I do wonder how many smx/rmx50's there are in the country, I read that Suzuki only brought in one container, but how many bikes is that? 20, 30?

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They were $5500 new at a time when you could buy an RG150 for $2995 or an FXR150 for $3495 so I can't imagine there were many. No idea if my RMX was modded, it did have "Not for highway use on the muffler" - only had 1700 odd km on the clock when I bought it and sold it to a collector

[bazbo]

[QUOTE=Willdat?;1130949188]They were $5500 new at a time when you could buy an RG150 for $2995 or an FXR150 for $3495 so I can't imagine there were many. No idea if my RMX was modded, it did have "Not for highway use on the muffler" - only had 1700 odd km on the clock when I bought it and sold it to a collector


$5050 new:

http://www.bikeforce.co.nz/brochure.htm