For $15,000?


http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/mcy/965199999.html

I have for sale a 1986 Suzuki RG500 Gamma in excellent original condition with less than 19k miles on the clock (shows 30k KMs). This bike has been serviced and maintained by me http://www.lancegamma.com for the last ten years. I rebuilt the motor about 2000 KMs ago and it is in perfect stock condition and standard bore. Mechanically, this bike rides like new. Having owned over 70 RG500's and ridden many low mileage virgin examples, I can speak from experience. Cosmetically, this bike is excellent with all original plastic including belly pan and nose fairing. The pan is starting to develop some stress cracks they are famous for. However, it is the best stock pan I have seen (short of brand new) in a dozen years and as is much too nice to rework now. The nose fairing in the photos has been replaced with a restored stock part in new condition. The cracks around the mirror mounts (a universal problem with stock Gamma nf's) are apparent in the photos which is why it was replaced. All other body parts (including the pan) are original paint and stickers.
This bike is a Canada production model (17 digit VIN) with good US title and transferable registration.

If you have any questions about this bike or other 500's in my inventory please call me at (828) 777-4076

Rick Lance

is it 2 stroke 500? 
bike looks nice but wtf with 15 grand??

Thats exactly what I said.... $15,000!!!!

i think he ment $1500?

95 HP...340 lbs...box 4...2 stroke.  That equals one fast bike but not $15K fast.  I guess the value is in the beauty and engineering.  Sorry, I can't afford that much appreciation.

- Porkchop.

i saw that ad on chicago craigslist a while ago, peaked my interest and youtubed the rg500. they are rare and fast and awesome. 2 stroke peaky power curve tho, 100 hp all at once? watch out

That sounds like a sweet bike. Not worth $15k, but for $1500 I'd seriously consider it... Probably wouldn't be able to register it in California though, they've hated 2 stroke bikes for quite some time now..

If it was only $1500.  I would be getting in my truck  right now to pick it up and im in california 

very rare, very fast and almost flawless.

How do you really put a price on it. This bike is for a collector that has way too much money.

As I recall, those are fairly gobbled up by collectors.

he meant $15,000. That is pristine, clean, mean old skool 2-stroke power thats just a lot of green. Those things are very rare, imported for only about 4 years and EPA laws excluded 2-strokes after 1996. These things are very fast, havent ridden gamma 500,but have ridden an rz350 and it pulled the front wheel up at 65-6700 RPM's and begged for me to give it more! i think it tached out at like 12-1300 rpms. Mad Power on every stroke, twice as much bang as a 4-stroke, and you never have to change any oil, you burn it all.
If it aint smokin, its broken.

I'd pay about $5000 for an RG if I could lay hands on one, just to play with it, and it'd certainly be a race/weekend only bike.   

2 strokes are VERY fun if you can keep em in the powerband consistently.  I've ridden an RD and they're extremely entertaining machines for the most part. by entertaining I mean they weigh nothing and opening the throttle in the powerband is the equivalent of WARP 5.

and for the most part simple to rebuild as well

4 Exhaust cans? Thats odd

Even on 2 stroke dirt bikes I have never seen that... whats the deal there?

One per cylinder

Wheelie machine from hell! My riding buddy would grab it in a heartbeat if money was not in short supply!

These were the schnitz in 86. However the CBR900 RR of 93 pretty much made it obsolete. The 96 GSXR 750 very much cremated it. Then of course the 1000 GSXR put the weed that grew on its burial site in a pipe and smoked it.

Lets see, the weight of the 07 GSXR 750 with power of the 07 GSXR 600 in a narrow power band, make that super narrow cos the 600 was narrow itself, and the handling of the 86 GSXR 750.

For rideability its no big deal now a days, for collectors value, its no big deal cos they made millions of these and sold them in asia, europe, canada, australia etc. In Pakisthan the cops had RGV250's. In a lot of asia the 250's and 500 were really common. It wont make it into a museum ... that's for sure. Want one - try malaysia or somewhere in that region.

So I'd say he's dreaming or hoping to find a fool who wants to re live his 1986 when he owned a gamma and the had a one night stand with a super model.

I'd not say its a wheelie machine ... its a wheelie only machine. it wont go at all till you get to its 9K power band, and then it will promptly hoist its front end up.
Cool.
Buddha.