RSD Water Buffalo: Suzuki GT750
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2024
- It’s undeniable. Two strokes are and will always be insanely fun. The sound, the smell, the powerband, and the pure attitude are all unique to two-stroke power plants. And what makes a two-stroke sing is when you start adding cylinders, two and in the case of the Water Buffalo even 3.
Watch as Roland talks about this build and the adventures it has with Travis Pastrana at Daytona Speedway in this episode of SUPWIDATBIKE?
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Video shot/edited by Stone Hendrikx
The sound of 2-stroke triple is so cool!
Really really cool! Proper RSD work! Well done lads
Those 2 stroke multiple cylinder bikes are awesome like the rd350.
THAT IS MY FUCKING DREAM BIKE BADASS 2 STROKE RIPPER STREET TRACKER FRAME MOTOR TANK AN ME KICKIN GEARS YESSIRRRR LETSS GOO
I rebuilt one, and the crankshaft is a monstrously heavy beast 😂
fun fact, I owned one new, they were called water bottles in the day lol, water buffalo lol, they had the strongest bottom end, prone to crankshaft seals and majorly detuned, Refer to Rod Richards, speedway championship winner in the 80's, ported polished and chambered, produced more HP than TZ 750 RC engines, hard to believe but true
These were more of a touring bike, with tune and weight to show for it. The first bike I restored, a '74, and I loved it, but it drank gas like a wino, the porting kind of kept the bike more quick on the takeoff, but sort of hit a wall at high rpm. Bit they were solid bikes, sounded great, and had a long and decent racing history, especially in sidecar bikes. The engine, like many suzukis, could handle a lot more power than stock without worrying about the lower end or cases, unlike most other brands. Gary Nixon did well in the early 70's on his racer. Early Clymer manuals also had tuning information, showing porting instructions and some things to do with the chassis. Cool old bikes they were.
Oh god, 2stroke never dies 🤘🤘🤘
Incredibly cool bike.
I had a pink 72 GT750 for several years and loved it, but an offer I couldn't refuse leaves me thinking of another one now.
I still have one of those engines sitting under a shelf.
Had thought of getting rid of the rusted internals and building it as a decorative table.
But seeing this vid has me thinking of TR750 street racer again...
The real potential is in the motor…. I raised my back end back in the day, made it handle way better. Mine had a bridge-ported engine close to Sheene’s Daytona spec. 9 grand in top gear (1,000 RPM into redline) and it would go all day - in between stops for fuel…… 3 expansion chambers, Dunstall full fairing. I routinely had it to 9K in top 2-up (ex-wife on the back), 260-270kmh. All on those skinny Dunlop K81s of the time. Best I ever got was 16mpg :-( Sold it to a bloke who kept pressing me to sell it to him. It was a beast, and would mono in first 3 gears quite easily despite its weight. He was going up from a 500 Suzuki Titan twin. Killed himself on it after owning it for 10 days. :-(
Had a water buffalo in high school. Also had an El-Camino that could easily out run it. It was more like a buffalo chip.
What the hell ! So cool and so crazy ! 2 stroke power !
wow! An awesome bike there! Greetings from Europe ✌️
badass awesome five out of five
I hope you are going to show more footage of the thing in motion - maybe on a smoother track... would love to see and hear it flying by!
Even though it's a 750cc two stroke triple that's were the similarity with the Kawasaki H2 ends.
Is it competitive as a flat tracker?
That thing is bad ass!
I'm interested in the RSD work
Oh. Hells. Yes.
The H2 750 is the raining champ of all two strokes !
Stock, absolutely. Once you go chasing serious HP the middle cylinder cooling becomes an issue. Probably the best tuning team on K triples at the time was Neville Doyle’s team - Team Kawasaki Australia. The late Gregg Hansford showed their true potential, but as Doyle discovered, there wasn’t the reliability in the early air-cooled 750 triples, so they went water-cooled to keep pace with Yamaha TZ700/TZ750 models and Suzuki GB’s 750 the nearly killed Sheene at Daytona.
@@davidburne9477 Some redisuvering the H2 .I don't know how they are doing it but making 200hp out of the little motor that can.
@ Nah, I blew 'em away all day long in California's canyons on my '74 RD. It blew everything away -- Porsche's, Vettes, you name it.
@@HegelsOwl I could see it in the short twisters that the 400 might outshine the 750 but after riding one once the power band hit on the 750 there gone.
@ Alan Armstrong Had a friend with an H2. I rode it sometimes, and you're right about its fierceness. I really, really wanted one, but it was going to cost too much to get the handling where it had to be for that kind of power.
I always heard these were built as more of a cruiser 2 stroke bike, being pretty detuned for reliability. I've heard stories of people taking these cross country with no problems. That said it's cool to see someone modding the platform to see what kind of performance they put out. Really think an RD or RZ platform would've been better for that race Travis was in though lol.
I had one of these while I was in the Marines and I rode it from the east cost to the west coast and half way back. It was excellent on the highway, except not great fuel economy. I had put a set of Bassani expansion chambers on it that seemed to bump up the power by maybe 10%. At the time, it was faster than anything any of my friends owned. it didn't like to go fast though the corners, but int a straight line, it did 12.6 in the quarter mile. Now back then, this was faster than most cars and only a few motorcycles were faster. The Honda 750 was not as fast in the quarter mile.
What position did he finished at Daytona ?
Jeez, If anyone out there has got a set of Swarbrick 3 - into - 3 pipes, for said bike, a very reasonable amount of cash is waiting for you.
It would be so nice to see this run on a mile instead of a TT against the "so called" modern era stuff. Just to see wht it would do. Maybe next you may consider building an air cooled Kawasaki 2-stroke triple of either 500 or 750cc. You'd save a lot of weight. Maybe a Champion or Trackmaster frame? And just like back in 1975 nobody, even a factory team, could keep up with it. "Keep the tires ban the bike" just like Harley cried back then about Robert's TZ.
who made the ignition? any tips?
What in the hell did you do to that poor thing?
Monster.....
Annoying music
4 sale?
BEUT. ps Very early barrels without recess for Liguid Cooled logo.
I want to slide it the half mile .
would have been better if you could have let someone who could actually ride a bike have a go on it
Does nobody ever wear helmets anymore
Water buffalo? No ! it is called a Kettle
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My old man had an expression for a tall guy on a bike like that but I'll just say Not Good.
And I bet the gearbox is super clunky.
Sedang mencari komen2 para pembalap haram yg trsesat🤣
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Completely ruined a classic bike
That's what he does. And then adds shite music to cover up the wonderful noise, as well as sticking daft rsd logos on every flat surface. They suck.
Good engines crap bikes .
Glad to see something different from yet another restored boring gt750.
Good job some ppl like something other than same old same standard stuff.
Seen one see em all bikes.
What you actually did was take a very cool early model Suzuki Gt750 that are rare very desirable and worth a fortune ( in Europe anyway) and turned it into the dog you were speaking about .. . Shame in my opinion .. ...
Desirable to ppl who like another standard bike .
This is something different and very cool very much like Kenny Robert's ride in the 70s.
If we all had standard bikes the bike world would be very very boring.
Ha, you guys can duke it out, but I'm just riding mine. One is bone stock and not a museum piece, just a fun old beast. My other one has a little done to it like Higspeed pipes and taller Marzocchi shocks...it does handle better and goes like mad just a hell raiser. The stock one is a pleasure to go out to the local store and grab a six pack for later.