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• II l1li • ~ t -, l!') r-, C"l ...... <.0 >~ :E " Just the looks of this new thing " We didn 't stay in the air nearly as long as I thought we wou ld, seeing are enough to scare the squids right off the cou rse. how fast we were going. " And all day long , I found the same " The seat's chopped off. thing. The wheel s on the RM like to The rear fender's a mile up in stay in the dirt where they can the air. And the shocks are gas-filled , laid-down, and so push . . . not in the air __ ~ . where they can spin. far forward they're almost :::--=::::::::::;;:..~_15=$ " So if you 're after a out of sight. ::--:.. bike for show, this isn't " What it feels like is a spring, it. This one's for win. all wound up tight , ready to explode " And my lap time proved it. if you so much as jiggle it. " What' s its sec ret ? " So I jiggled it. " Handling. It handles like a .'W AAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEE! dream. You do n't have to fight it or " Oh sure, Suzuki told me that their muscle it or make corrections all the new port ing wou ld give it a lot of snap. time for goofs. But this was ridiculous. We came out " You just flow over that course of the hole so fast, I just barely hung on. like syrup flows over pancakes. " And then we hit the whoops. " Competition, you're in big " At least, they looke d like whoops. trouble," The only thing was, the wheels didn 't seem to know it. They clu ng to the little ones like a snake going over roc ks. No matter how high the frame went, the wheels hung right in there , ~ig, ~ spitt ing out power. " And over the big ones, they didn 't fishta il once. We went through those whoops on a line so straight you could hang clothes on it. " Man, that' s handling ! " Up came the first turn. A big hairy sweeper with a super-high berm. "I tapped the gears, and slammed into it hard . Magic . Right away, it "This is one bike you won 't have to port . seemed to seek out and lock into the Suzu ki's al ready done it for yo u . In fact. they're so big, they're br idged - twice right line all by itself. so the ring s won 't ge t hung up .That " Coming out, I cr anked it on, and means yo u've got 6 ho les suc king up the gas/a ir mixture out of the crankcase WAAAAAAEEEEEE, again. We shot into the combustion chamber.This new out of that thing like a sling shot. po rting - plus a big, 28mm carb - gives the RM its snap and power:' heading for the first jump. " Surprise. v: "The transfer ports are so put .two I;tricrges in 'em:' u S. S"," ", I"" M C Spring s, Calif. 90670 I~ "" "",,,",,. Dept soos ~ Santa Fe safely: wea r a helmet, eve protec tion and app rop riate riding app arel. SUZUKI ® SUZUKI'S RM-125 IS HERE. 25