Keep the dreams alive these bikes is where it all started and the swedish husqavarnas the 1970s were a thing of precious beauty i would love to buy up every model and gently care for those bikes they would live in my bedroom the mustard yellow cr 125husky was a rare breed i loved them
Hey Now! You Guys are Doing a Fantastic Job. Keep it Going. Had a paper route/// mowing grass in1980, saved enough $$$ 450 dollars to buy this exact machine I think in 79/80 from a dealer, (Miere and Sons) at the age of 15 without my parents permission. What a Hoot! when I heard it on ur Great Video brought me back. Of course my dad made me take it back a couple months later, but I lived to tell the story> Cheers
Back then in 1974 1975 the Honda cr 250m taking over the Open class as there was no rule against running a 250 in the open and it got pretty obnoxious there was no open bikes anymore everybody's ridin cr250m ,whole open class everywhere you went so AMA stepped in and made the rULE well what we had learned the attractions in the midwest or not that long I say right out in the southwest in the desert and 250 is right at home on the shorter tracks and we'll just eat I opened by that from turn to turn is this that's all you do just turn and turn blast and turn and open visor hassle you got to stand on the throttle and stand on the brace you know where your ass out real quick so what's this rm370 was all about you got the bottom end crankshaft size and weight and stroke of a 250 with a huge big bore piston kind of like the same idea of them ripping;; was every bit of it ripping handle like a 250 in the woods .. crack the throttlel out on that mine road buzz up 100 mph... Then Honda came right back with more revenge with the Mugen 310 CC that was a modified 1978 CR250R but with the Mugen cylinder piston and radial fin head that was still legal under the new ama rules cuz they hadn't figured anybody would soup up 250 especially the factories doing it .. and I never thought about these intermediate cc bikes but all the real estate was it had to be over a 250cc bike to run in the opening class and tada example the RM370 that wasn't just a 250 with some big parts and it was a completely new biuild pbut it had the qualities in the specifications in the lower end of a 250 the ripper. With a big bore jug and piston !unstoppable p jump like a butterfly sting like a bee
had exact same bike as a kid blew it up stuck rings we were poor took cyl off embroy cloth n freed the rings back up emroy cloth the side skirt of piston n bottom of cyl it ran for yrs like that tough bike
I restored one in 2002 after picking it up for 50 dollars at a garage sale. It was a rolling chassis with a motor in pieces in a milk crate. I sold it for 3,500, but before I did I rode it. It is the only dirt bike that has ever scared the shit out of me lol👍🏼
I had one was flat tracking it on a 10 acres of grass it rained hard hours before. Out there 4 gear. I hit patch of water cranked over .Next thing I'm sliding next to the bike laughing my ass off. I'd go pick up the bike go around again. The best.
That idle was just perfect definitely a one of a kind sound out of the big bores beautiful bike and shit that sticker on the bar's WOW that thing surviving just remarkable
By the way just to let you know your channel on TH-cam will be my favorite of all if you wasn't trying to monopolize all the big boys year after all of them well good luck dude go ahead tear them up
My dirt bike dreams started with this very motorcycle. This has got to be the crown jewel of vintage dirt bikes.!!! Looks great and sounds awesome.. thanks for sharing..
One of Roger D's championship Suzukis Was in a Tucson car dealership for years. Don Mackey was a good friend of Decosters and he owned a Caddy dealership in Tucson and the bike was on display there. I never saw iit but my mom did . He would come to town from time to time to visit Don and the local Yamaha dealership Eastside Cycle would pull a Honda off the used bike line and prep it for him as he was a honda guy at the time . Then Rodger, Don , the owner of Eastside Jack and a friend of mine that was the KTM rep would go trail riding. It was all top secret and hush hush and you wouldn't here about it until afterwards.... .
Also to add. I've noticed Senior usually wears a wheel gun, I can't tell the model, looks like a K frame Smith? Also the Buck knife, maybe a 119? The Kaplan guys are neat. Within the next year I'm definitely coming to their museum.
Roger's bike was a full-on custom factory works bike and shared no parts with the production bikes (save maybe the gas tank). It might have looked like it did, but nope..
All Suzuki RM's here in Australia had that "sold as is " sticker affixed to the rear guard . It was a bit off putting to the bike as Yamaha offered 3 months warranty
I had a 78’ RM 125 as a kid, i grew in Madras Ore, we could literally fire up in the garage & ride on BLM land all day, never had to truck your bike anywhere, that was a long time ago.
Again the craziest bike I have ever ridden and love all the big bores back in the day wonderful old bike paint it red probably buy it just joking a great example from Suzuki D.h
Is it just me or do the old air cooled 2ts hit way harder. I have a 1980 rm 250 works bike (aluminum swingarm) and it's a wheel banger compared to my 02 yz 250.
Because I will tell you one thing else you can buy these motorcycles when you send your people around scouring through the countryside finding them and you buy them and you got places where you can buy parts cheap and then you want to sell them for a thousands of dollars more I used to buy a YZ 490 for $750 just not many years ago but now you're going to make one cost about two or $3,000 or four we can't do this no more because of you I know you want to stay in business and make money but by God man let us people that still love these old motorcycles be able to buy one
I love what you do my friend but I have to say this with all of my heart what you are doing I know you make a living selling motorcycles but we people that are just a few years older would like to find one of these and buy them but you are trying to corner the market on everything so we don't have to won't be able to buy one unless we pay thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars for one cuz you're trying to build the market up so they cost so much we can't afford one anymore we could buy one and rebuild it and have us a nice old bike like we used to ride when we were younger but we can't do that no more because you are running the market dude you are missing everything up you're buying every damn thing and missing it up for all the rest of us
By God my friend we all love these motorcycles I know when you're in the motorcycle business and you're trying to make money but quit sending people out kind of scouring the countryside trying to buy every damn one they can find let somebody else that used to ride these things when they were younger find one and restore it and have a a bite to ride again but you're doing that and you're selling them for thousands and thousands of dollars they can be bought cheap like you're buying them you're buying them for nothing and then you do a little bit of this and that you say you do this and you do that but to hell with that
Never be no more two strokes big bores anyway it was I'm talking about for people to buy on eBay or Craigslist or whatever because of you you're sucking them all up and you're wanting a premium price for all of them so I guess we're all screwed now ain't we it won't be that way for too long
My family has in the automotive business and the motorcycle business all of our lives but I'll tell you what you have the facilities of the resources to buy all of these things up and send people out there to buy them for nothing you have a scouring the country buying all of these 500 CC two strokes there's not many left and there won't be many left when you get through that's for sure how could I ever find one and buy it and restore it if I found one you would have it and you wouldn't want six or seven thousand dollars for it probably oh maybe that's too cheap just a few years ago I bought a YZ 490 for $50 but I bet I can't do that no more cuz you're sucking them up like candy
I'm 54 years old and I grew up on these machines they're what I want to buy but I can't find them anymore because you're sucking up everyone you can find and then you stick some brakes on them and go through the carburetor and do this and that and then you want about 10 times more than what you could buy one for you ruining it for everybody dude
Should not be a hater lot of old bikes out there just look 62 yrs old kept my old race bikes all run but don't knock this man's vision keep our past moving if you can't keep up get out of the game quit batching and get one of these gems D.h
I see how you always really these machines up and down the driveway won't go ahead buy some more for about 500 or $750 a piece and then try to sell them to me for 10 grand then I won't be able to do that leave it alone dude save some for some other people okay make your business on parts and other things
This is the last coming I will make I sound like a damned fool of course you're going to do this you're in it for the bucks you like these big boars so do I and you're going to monopolize off of them every chance you get so bye everyone you can for $500 a piece put a little bit of work in there for your mechanics that you pay a little bit of wages to and then sell them for $7,000 or whatever a piece I don't know but go ahead and do it
Love all Suzuki RMs all the way thru the '90s!.
My 92 125
BEST SOUNDING BIKE I have heard.
THANKS Ken!...... Now I want one... I am going to need to go to a shrink soon, to fix my problem... lol.
Keep the dreams alive these bikes is where it all started and the swedish husqavarnas the 1970s were a thing of precious beauty i would love to buy up every model and gently care for those bikes they would live in my bedroom the mustard yellow cr 125husky was a rare breed i loved them
Look at the roost that throws! Fuck, that bike is perfect.
Hey Now! You Guys are Doing a Fantastic Job. Keep it Going. Had a paper route/// mowing grass in1980, saved enough $$$ 450 dollars to buy this exact machine I think in 79/80 from a dealer, (Miere and Sons) at the age of 15 without my parents permission. What a Hoot! when I heard it on ur Great Video brought me back. Of course my dad made me take it back a couple months later, but I lived to tell the story>
Cheers
What I love about the "open class" is the whole manner of odd ball engine sizes.
Back then in 1974 1975 the Honda cr 250m taking over the Open class as there was no rule against running a 250 in the open and it got pretty obnoxious there was no open bikes anymore everybody's ridin cr250m ,whole open class everywhere you went so AMA stepped in and made the rULE well what we had learned the attractions in the midwest or not that long I say right out in the southwest in the desert and 250 is right at home on the shorter tracks and we'll just eat I opened by that from turn to turn is this that's all you do just turn and turn blast and turn and open visor hassle you got to stand on the throttle and stand on the brace you know where your ass out real quick so what's this rm370 was all about you got the bottom end crankshaft size and weight and stroke of a 250 with a huge big bore piston kind of like the same idea of them ripping;; was every bit of it ripping handle like a 250 in the woods .. crack the throttlel out on that mine road buzz up 100 mph... Then Honda came right back with more revenge with the Mugen 310 CC that was a modified 1978 CR250R but with the Mugen cylinder piston and radial fin head that was still legal under the new ama rules cuz they hadn't figured anybody would soup up 250 especially the factories doing it .. and I never thought about these intermediate cc bikes but all the real estate was it had to be over a 250cc bike to run in the opening class and tada example the RM370 that wasn't just a 250 with some big parts and it was a completely new biuild pbut it had the qualities in the specifications in the lower end of a 250 the ripper. With a big bore jug and piston !unstoppable p jump like a butterfly sting like a bee
My favorite bike of all time and the best wheelie machine ever! ''Balance''.....the word for everything about it!
I always love how you dress for the occasion genius
The best of japanese motocross wish we could buy these times again and have fun
Love it! Currently restoring a 76’ RM370. Tough finding parts especially up in alaska.
I would love to find a 76 Suzuki Rm 370
Always loved the meaty sound of the 370. Sweet!
I just love those old bikes of the Suzuki RM back in the day and the sound of the two stroke and the smell of mix oil and gas together too.
I remember the first time I saw one of those as he blew by me on the trails. Screaming Yellow Zonkers!
This is by far the best vintage mx bike ever made.
had exact same bike as a kid blew it up stuck rings we were poor took cyl off embroy cloth n freed the rings back up emroy cloth the side skirt of piston n bottom of cyl it ran for yrs like that tough bike
Sounds absolutely savage
I restored one in 2002 after picking it up for 50 dollars at a garage sale. It was a rolling chassis with a motor in pieces in a milk crate. I sold it for 3,500, but before I did I rode it. It is the only dirt bike that has ever scared the shit out of me lol👍🏼
I had one was flat tracking it on a 10 acres of grass it rained hard hours before. Out there 4 gear. I hit patch of water cranked over .Next thing I'm sliding next to the bike laughing my ass off. I'd go pick up the bike go around again. The best.
Kaplin America always bringing the game
That’s the bike I had when I was 13 years old. It was a beast to me then.
He is the KING 🤠
It's a realy bad ass machine!
Why do those old school 2 strokes from my childhood sound so good?!?
That idle was just perfect definitely a one of a kind sound out of the big bores beautiful bike and shit that sticker on the bar's WOW that thing surviving just remarkable
love those old bikes.
Roger Decoster and Bob Hannah were heroes when I was a kid.......
By the way just to let you know your channel on TH-cam will be my favorite of all if you wasn't trying to monopolize all the big boys year after all of them well good luck dude go ahead tear them up
Sounds incredible.
My dirt bike dreams started with this very motorcycle. This has got to be the crown jewel of vintage dirt bikes.!!! Looks great and sounds awesome.. thanks for sharing..
Love the sound of this period of two strokes, what a time warp machine, superb cheers for rideing it well.
That was the monster riding in the sandpits of LI as a kid ,Hail the mighty 370
To me ridden alot of bikes this one scare me more than my 500 a killer compare it to my old kx 420 and you know that was a real widowmaker D.h
Dam you got skills brother!!!
I've been waiting for this video; great bike!
I can't wait until you guys get a 465, that was my dream bike when I was a kid.
🇦🇺😎👍 love the handgun brother , nice 🇺🇸
I have a few bikes sitting around,I've wrenched on many to see if they run again,that Rm brought back a memory,thanks for the like!
Funny about the bars. Great bike great vids as usual. Unobtainium
One of Roger D's championship Suzukis Was in a Tucson car dealership for years. Don Mackey was a good friend of Decosters and he owned a Caddy dealership in Tucson and the bike was on display there. I never saw iit but my mom did . He would come to town from time to time to visit Don and the local Yamaha dealership Eastside Cycle would pull a Honda off the used bike line and prep it for him as he was a honda guy at the time . Then Rodger, Don , the owner of Eastside Jack and a friend of mine that was the KTM rep would go trail riding. It was all top secret and hush hush and you wouldn't here about it until afterwards....
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Stunning Suzuki rm like you say unobtainnium.
Awsome bike mister Wolverine
The revolver is that a 357?
Looks to me 44 Magnum my favorite caliber
Also to add. I've noticed Senior usually wears a wheel gun, I can't tell the model, looks like a K frame Smith? Also the Buck knife, maybe a 119? The Kaplan guys are neat. Within the next year I'm definitely coming to their museum.
Id love to see the rm 370 with a 79 rm400 swing arm and shocks and modern inverted forks!
I once owned 2rm 400s I found them laying in a feild and got them running,the sheriff hated it! Because it was loud and very fast,
You can see the torque in the rear tire as it compresses down under acceleration
Beautiful creamy little unit. Love your videos
What a beaut, i hadThe rm 80 1980 was a great bike for 10 years old boy. Great fun on that rm 80.
Ummm yum a banana sandwich. Love it. Sound is very unique. Sounds pissed off. I love it
I'm not a big Suzuki fan but damn, that thing sounds mean!
I saw Roger Decoster win Unadilla on one of these in the day
Roger's bike was a full-on custom factory works bike and shared no parts with the production bikes (save maybe the gas tank). It might have looked like it did, but nope..
Awesome bike. Senior is a badass rider! Thanks
Cool bike.
That is my favorite motorcycle of all time!
It's total banana coverage day for me I guess 🤠, that bike is 🍒 wow
All Suzuki RM's here in Australia had that "sold as is " sticker affixed to the rear guard . It was a bit off putting to the bike as Yamaha offered 3 months warranty
Bet you guys never have to mow that lawn lol!
I had a 78’ RM 125 as a kid, i grew in Madras Ore, we could literally fire up in the garage & ride on BLM land all day, never had to truck your bike anywhere, that was a long time ago.
This this is a beast
Very cool 'I've always wondered how hard a rm 370 run's 'you've just shown me.
I remember I had to lock tite all bolts , or They would vibrate loose . Loudest bike ever in my opinion.
Beautiful bike, that thing looks like it will haul ass
Again the craziest bike I have ever ridden and love all the big bores back in the day wonderful old bike paint it red probably buy it just joking a great example from Suzuki D.h
Great sound and looks. Seems to be a very balanced bike too.
Nice bike, I have a 1976 370 that is as clean or cleaner all original. 👍
Animal 💪
Those were made for 2 year's 76 and 77
How's the neighbors doing?
Rippa would eat modern 450s
When men were men. Wow the power to suspension/braking ratio is truly frightening lol.
I think you should come out of retirement and race the nationals .. they need guys lol ..... old school .. you still got it ...
Not one year only' 1976 and 1977.
Is it just me or do the old air cooled 2ts hit way harder. I have a 1980 rm 250 works bike (aluminum swingarm) and it's a wheel banger compared to my 02 yz 250.
👌👌
Bad azz
Did Roger Decoster ride RMs before the CRs ?????😮
Should be "104" on those number plates...or at least that's what I remember when he ran a zook at Unadilla...
We just watched you abuse it! Lol
Sweet old girl
😍👍💪🏻🙏🇫🇷
Bumblebee: give me castrol R
Because I will tell you one thing else you can buy these motorcycles when you send your people around scouring through the countryside finding them and you buy them and you got places where you can buy parts cheap and then you want to sell them for a thousands of dollars more I used to buy a YZ 490 for $750 just not many years ago but now you're going to make one cost about two or $3,000 or four we can't do this no more because of you I know you want to stay in business and make money but by God man let us people that still love these old motorcycles be able to buy one
I love what you do my friend but I have to say this with all of my heart what you are doing I know you make a living selling motorcycles but we people that are just a few years older would like to find one of these and buy them but you are trying to corner the market on everything so we don't have to won't be able to buy one unless we pay thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars for one cuz you're trying to build the market up so they cost so much we can't afford one anymore we could buy one and rebuild it and have us a nice old bike like we used to ride when we were younger but we can't do that no more because you are running the market dude you are missing everything up you're buying every damn thing and missing it up for all the rest of us
By God my friend we all love these motorcycles I know when you're in the motorcycle business and you're trying to make money but quit sending people out kind of scouring the countryside trying to buy every damn one they can find let somebody else that used to ride these things when they were younger find one and restore it and have a a bite to ride again but you're doing that and you're selling them for thousands and thousands of dollars they can be bought cheap like you're buying them you're buying them for nothing and then you do a little bit of this and that you say you do this and you do that but to hell with that
Never be no more two strokes big bores anyway it was I'm talking about for people to buy on eBay or Craigslist or whatever because of you you're sucking them all up and you're wanting a premium price for all of them so I guess we're all screwed now ain't we it won't be that way for too long
104 nice
My family has in the automotive business and the motorcycle business all of our lives but I'll tell you what you have the facilities of the resources to buy all of these things up and send people out there to buy them for nothing you have a scouring the country buying all of these 500 CC two strokes there's not many left and there won't be many left when you get through that's for sure how could I ever find one and buy it and restore it if I found one you would have it and you wouldn't want six or seven thousand dollars for it probably oh maybe that's too cheap just a few years ago I bought a YZ 490 for $50 but I bet I can't do that no more cuz you're sucking them up like candy
🇦🇺😎👍🏁🇺🇸🏁🇺🇸💪
Pure dunda
I'm 54 years old and I grew up on these machines they're what I want to buy but I can't find them anymore because you're sucking up everyone you can find and then you stick some brakes on them and go through the carburetor and do this and that and then you want about 10 times more than what you could buy one for you ruining it for everybody dude
Should not be a hater lot of old bikes out there just look 62 yrs old kept my old race bikes all run but don't knock this man's vision keep our past moving if you can't keep up get out of the game quit batching and get one of these gems D.h
I see how you always really these machines up and down the driveway won't go ahead buy some more for about 500 or $750 a piece and then try to sell them to me for 10 grand then I won't be able to do that leave it alone dude save some for some other people okay make your business on parts and other things
This is the last coming I will make I sound like a damned fool of course you're going to do this you're in it for the bucks you like these big boars so do I and you're going to monopolize off of them every chance you get so bye everyone you can for $500 a piece put a little bit of work in there for your mechanics that you pay a little bit of wages to and then sell them for $7,000 or whatever a piece I don't know but go ahead and do it
Like a wise man once said, " it's only original once. "