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" Just the looks of this new thing are enough to scare the
squids right off the course.
" 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 forward they're almost out of sight.
" What it feels like is a spring, all wound up tight,
ready to explode if you so much as jig gle it.
"So I jiggled it.
" WAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEE!
" Oh sure, Suzuki told me that their new port ing
would give it a lot of snap. But this was ridiculous. We
came out of the hole so fast, I just barely hung on.
" And then we hit the whoops .
" At least, they looked like whoops . The only thing was,
the wheels didn't seem to know it. They clung to the little 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.
" I tapped 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,
headin g for the first jump.
" Surprise.
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" We didn't stay in the air nearly as long as
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I thought we would, seeing how fast we
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were going.
" 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 ?
" Handli ng, It handles like a dream. You don 't
have. to fight it or muscle it or make cor rections
allithe time for goofs.
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"You just flow over that course like syrup
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flows over pancakes,
" Competition, you're in big troub le."
"the transfer ports
are 59 big, ~ put
two bridges in 8m:'
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S UZUKI@
" 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
the crankcase into the combustion chamber. This new porting
- plus a big, 28mm ca r~ i ves
the RM its snap and power,"
U, S, Suzuki Motor Corporation. Dept. 8012 Santa Fe Springs . Calif, 90670
SUZUKI'S RM-125IS HERE•
• . - • • . •• 'Ridesafely: wear 'a hel met, eye protection and appropriate riding apparel"
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