Suzuki have joined Yamaha by releasing their incredible RG500 Gamma. The big brother of the RG250, the 500 is aimed directly at the 500LC’s throat, and Suzuki have clearly spent the last 12 months studying the competition. The Yamaha may be prettier

that.Suzuki's demo-bike workshop, motocross team and race team were all in the same building then, and the Grand Prix shop was up the road. That's where they built the Heron Grand Prix Project 500 GP bike, the carbon-fibre framed RG500 racebike. I

WE SHOULD be working but instead we were having a shuftie on eBay and spotted a gem; a 1986 Suzuki RG500 Gamma.It's currently up for just £3,000 but expect it to fetch twice that, at least. We could rave on about it and post the ad, but you might

HERE ARE the new colours for the 2009 Suzuki GSX-R600.Suzuki have just announced that these will be the colour options for the new bike. The orange, black and white versions look pretty cool, but we love the RG500-esque double blue option most

's auctioneers recently sold a 28-mile RG500 for almost £9500 - that's almost treble the Suzuki's original retail price. Even tatty examples now fetch at least £2000. But if you were asked which five modern sportsbikes look prime candidates for future classics

, by artist Andrew Kitson, shows the motorcycle racing legend on his 1976 Texaco Suzuki RG500 at Silverstone, tackling Woodcote bend. The picture will be the first painting in the club house to represent the importance of motorcycling to the track, its history

display and demonstration Parade Lap at the Silverstone round of BSB (Sunday 28 September), including a 1961 BMW R69s, Mike Hailwood 350cc and 500cc 4 cylinder Hondas, a ‘78 Steve Parrish RG 500cc Suzuki, a 1985 Joey Dunlop RS 250cc Honda, an Egli

by Crescent SuzukiA BBC jacket donated by Steve Parrish and signed by him and all his fellow BBC TV presenters from MotoGP, plus various riders from the Grand Prix and this year’s TT.A framed, authenticated, signed picture of Barry riding the RG500A Fiat

NIALL MACKENZIE1986 HRC test, SuzukaOur own 'Spuds' Mackenzie had been riding an Armstrong 250 in GPs and ridden the Skoal Bandit RG500 in the last few 500cc races of the year. Then he got a call to go to Japan for a private test with the mighty HRC

of Grand Prix Hondas, including the 250cc-6, 350cc-4 and Mike Hailwood's 500cc-4.Multiple TT winner and British Champion Mick Grant will lap the circuit on his 1970s MCN Superbike Kawasaki 750cc-3, plus there will be factory RG500 GP Suzukis and Randy