r--
" Just the looks of this new thing are enough to scare the
squids right off the cour se.
" The seat' s chopped off. The rear fender 's a mile up
in the air. And the shoc ks are gas-filled , laid-down , and
so far forwa rd they 're almost out of sight.
" What it feels like is a spring, all woun d up tight,
ready to explode if yo u so much as jiggl e it.
" So I jiggled it.
" WAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEE !
" Oh sure, Suzuki told me that their new porting
would give it a lot of snap. But this was ridicu lous . We
came out of the hole so fast, I just barely hung on.
" And then we hit the whoops.
" At least, they look ed like whoops. The only thing was,
the wheel s didn't seem to know it. They clung to the littl e ones
like a snake going over rocks. No matter how high the frame
went, the wheels hung right in there, spitt ing out power.
" And over the big ones , they didn't fishtail 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.
'" tapp ed the gears , and slammed into it hard . Magic ,
Right away, it seemed to seek out and lock into the right
line all by itself.
" Coming out. I cranked it on, and WAAAAAAEEEEEE,
again. We shot out of that thing like a sling shot,
heading for the first jump.
" Surprise.
" We didn't stay in the air nearly as long as
I thouq ht we would, seeing how fast we
were go ing .
" And all day long , I found the same thing.
The wheels on the RM like to stay in the dirt where they can
push .. . not in the air where they can spin.
" So if you're after a bike for show, this isn't it. This
one 's for win.
" And my lap time proved it.
" What' s its secret ?
" Handling. It handles like a dream . You don 't
have to fight it or muscle it or make cor rections
~
all the time for goofs .
.
" You just flow over that course like syrup
•
flows over pancakes.
" Competition, you 're in big trouble."
SUZUKl @
"The transfer ports
are~':"'Yput
two ·
in 'em'
" This is one bike you won 't have
to port. Suzuki's already done it
for you. In fact , they' re so big ,
they're bridged-twice- so the
rings won 't get hung up. That
means you 've got 6 holes sucking up the gas/air mixture out of
tne cran kcase into the combu slion chamber. This new porting
- plus a big , 28mm carb-gives
the RM its snap and power."
U. S. Suzuki Motor Corporation, Dept. 80 12 Santa Fe Springs, Calit. 90670
SUZUKI'S RM-125 IS HERE.
Ride safely; wear a helmet, eye protection and appropriate riding app arel.
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