Team Suzuki

By: Ray Battersby .

A definitive analysis of the factory's road racing motorcycle' admirably spells out the detail of this superb piece of research and writing. First published in 1982 to critical acclaim, its original publisher has teamed up again with author Ray Battersby to publish Team Suzuki again over 25 years later, all inspired by its quality.

Team Suzuki is the familiar term to encompass the Japanese Suzuki motorcycle company's road racing efforts – incorporated within are the strictly `works' own special road racing motorcycles from their first effort in 1953 with the first Diamond Free (58 cc, single cylinder 2-stroke) through to 1981 and the XR35 (RG500 Gamma) and XR69-S (GS 1000R).

There are some 50 plus machines described ranging in complexity from the jewel-like 50 cc twin with more gears than most riders could remember through to the `huge' liquid-cooled 750s and GP 500 square-fours.

Team Suzuki is not just the most detailed road racing motorcycle technical history yet published but is a human story too. Designers, managers and mechanics all have their say notwithstanding the huge amount of rider anecdote also within.

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