1983 Suzuki RM500 Two-Stroke RM-ZILLA 

Uncle Rico if Uncle Rico rode dirt bikes

I was that kid.

he's like a big kid...lol

Reminds me of the kid in my neighborhoods dad he rode an RM lol

@@JohnDoe-pt7xx no disrespect just saying but he is he that kid that has it and spoiled or the guy that was cool and without you burn it down the street and burn it back up if you knew how to ride and shift it using the clutch but not dog it out is he that cool of a guy or is he that other guy you all know that guy I'm talking about you know a lot of us didn't have that stuff we saved our pennies and our dollars and whatever we could get but as long as we was in the wind and never matters what you're on God bless all you guys on here and families too in the fallen ones we looked up to amen

Ur not kidding it's not the same

Ohhhh yeah, the smell of Castrol R30.

100%!!

Born 78 so I'm right there with you. 💯 Honda 50 fat tire then YZ80 and the powerband on that minibeast ripped🤙

We ripped back then , I was in HS at that time and remember the first time I rode a friends RM250 (an 81 and 1st year of the full floater swingarm) -- took about 30 minutes to get used to the power, you better respect it. Kaws and Yams were few and far between, everyone rode Hondas and Suzukis

@Kalel Vance no one does care

Exactly 🏍🔧⚙️🔩📛💯. So true

@Kalel Vance go away...

Me I dislike totally because I'm just a jealous guy !! This is my Grail, Never forget that Lackey had the Tittle World Champ on it, and I'm not american, but a real addict old Suzie. My dream is the 77, 78 RM 125 and the ice on top of the cake THIS ONE , all world champs with Watanabe, Rahier and Lackey. I'd fit some DG exhaust on it and wear my old Arai helmet with 5 buttons, yellow shirt, blue Yoko trousers and old bleu Fox boots. It was the best era ever of Motocross, Lackey, Sun and Laporte were the US outsiders, the solid contenders named Vromans, Malherbe, Noyce, Carlqvist, Bruno, Kinigardner, Wolsink and so many in the list...Wow, missed the smell out of a hot muffler !

Someone lacking a soul

@G Skelton yea that sound jacked me up big time lol

the 80's were the best years to be a teenager with a dirt bike !! life was great

In my opinion most of the major changes took place in the 80's. Anybody remember the 1981 Suzuki RM 125? You either had that bike or wished you had one.I remember people jumping ship in the middle of the year and halfway through the season you would roll up to the start and 90% of the riders were on the Suzuki. Honda couldn't give their 125 away that year and the Kawasaki was still air cooled.

@@attilalako8090 man that is no joke!!! This channel is new to me! But I love it! Combines my favorite things from growing up! Bad as dirtbikes and well the era itself! We that were there are some very lucky people! That I have zero doubt of!

Try1982 ktm 495 mxc -a real monster.....

@@attilalako8090 ... I agree with u 100%

Yea he is! He definitely cool! And he knows what he is talking about! Out of all the video makers out there, I actually like this guy. The rest of them, say they know, think they know, but when they open their mouth someone who actually does know thinks " what an Idiot" , another one, telling old wives tales and giving bad advise thinking they are educating the world but they are not doing anything but feeding into and spreading narrative driven techniques that are designed to sell products whether you need them or not, will ever need them or not, or if you will ever even need to use them or no. That does not matter, because all that matters to them is that they convince people to buy their product. Like never seize and loc-tite. There is a time and place for them, but these people use one or the other on everything and some use both at the same time. Someone who recommends that you loctite every nut and bolt, has an issue with properly tightening, or pretention Ing the big spring that a bolt or stud actually is. And they have had a problem with things loosening and falling apart after they assemble them, which is why they have to use a thread glue to hold their junk together. And never seize, their are different types with different metals in them for different purposes. Not to them, there is one kind, and that is the kind they have, and it is never seize, it says it is right on the can! Yes they are right, it says never seize, but not anti-corrosion compound, and that is what they are using it for.

Funny but 500 cubic capacity doesn't sound like 80.

The 125 was so awesome to hear too..I had too get my hands on a piped 2 stroke so bad after hearing that!

@@dreyn7780 thanks for posting. I can somewhat agree but 500 goes thru a open baffle same as an 80 and that’s where the sound comes from. Besides the fact that I’m listening to the video thru my phones speaker. Lol.

It’s a crisp sounding engine

Facts!!!

@@teediggy1785 are the boys coming to dilla this weekend?

@@bradleymorris8875 He said "at amateur level". He is probably correct.

@@bradleymorris8875 i mean these motors are making very similar power to the modern 450's if not more, its the frame and suspension that lets them down.

Rare cause you ruined them.

Lived my dream brother! I’m 21 now and just bought my 82 rm465 after looking for so long, I’m very happy! Got the single sided airbox too but I wish I got that fork upgrade so cool to hear!

That was the last year of the double rear coil springers. There's no way these kids today could sky on that machine. Shortly after was the RM465. With a full floater which dominated the YZ mono shock

I'm from that era in time and rode all the rms even going back if anyone remembers Suzuki made a TM series before the RM came out..

Love you brother

Friend had a 100t in the mid 80s he was a good rider boy he made that thing fly

It's a pleasure ken and Jr. you bring back such beautiful memories with these prestigious machines. thanks.

Yeah for sure I had both 83cr 480 and 83 rm 500 both beasts the cr was a scary beast down low the rm was just as mean but more controllable than the red machine

Used to go to watch enduro and the 2 blokes who took me rode in them 1 being a p.e 175 rode it couple of times and that thing was so quicker than the dt 175 Mx at the time real fun surprised me....

@@jonathansmedley1077 haha...are a.. one was a relative by marriage he was a bouncer in Chester back in the day when doormen wore dicky bows and didn't ask nicely...he stopped Enduro for a year ask me to start back up with him both of us fixing up a bike for me but tragedy struck and he was killed in a accident... GRT bloke he made that XR 600 of his look like a 125..his mate would come along with p e 175 but he never looked after the bloody thing..one time me+Russel had to carry the bike out of his garage because he'd been Beach racing the week before and hadn't cleaned it 4am carrying it out of his garage he just stood there and watched,he was funny though looked like the comedian Lee Hurst... GRT going to Enduro at a time when geraint Jones was racing on his husky....to street Wise for perverts but thanks for askin...haha 🤗👍👍👍...

H3AVYHAUL3R you’re right. Ray Vandenberg won on a Suzuki in 1983. So the year before this bike, but the same model etc.

You’re spot on and lots of state titles and some big super x races here in aus back then 💪

😅😅😅

Well, atleast they don't have to cut it 🤣 The bikes take care of the lawn service.

They're not ripping them 500's enough

@@rocknrye9273 how cool

I wonder who is the owner of the lawn, is it public or private? 😂

IDK the kx came into it's own in the mid to late 80s not much could touch them especially in the big bore

@@wessteele1058 yeah I should have been more specific because what time period I was referring to was the late 70's early 80's because the KX 500 owned the mid 80's and there after in my humble opinion.

no I'm totally with you in the mid 80s and there after nothing and I mean nothing could compare to the KX 500 hands down! I guess what I was trying to say was the RM's were most popular in the late 70s ateast around my neck of the woods.👍

That's what fathers think about their daughters 🤣

Whoever could afford to buy it, most likely would cherish it...

I I have an 82 RM250.. that I just finished restoring...

82' 250Z fastest motor Ever.. Wicked . 83 toned down motor. Got my first trophy in 1983 on that 250z new leftover . RM never broke much.

mitzvah golem I was about 13 years old when I had mine early 90’s was a fairly wild ride 😉

@@MitzvosGolem1 you ain't lying 82 RM is a hard-hitting engine but it's like an overgrown 125 it's all top end not much on the bottom drawer in the middle but when that thing hits on the top it explodes and revs to the Moon

@@navyseabee7245 Im about to restore an '82 rm250. It doesnt have 1st gear and its so used to klotz 28to1 it wont run on anything else but shes a screamer lol lots of potential

@@davidcarper5411 No, it was a 4 speed, pretty crazy. But with all that torque it worked. Later had '86 & '91 KX500's and my belief on the '91 is that it would have been faster with a 4 speed.

Just needed porting to pull the power through the rom range! Eric Gorr would fix that up quickly

@@terryfonz4603 Id love to see the stock port map. I could probably greatly improve it myself...

@@terryfonz4603 👍

Ever been on a CR500? 😁

👍🇦🇺

snide 2 this exact bike ????

@@highrpmful yes

snide 2 I got the 85 250cc 2-stroke fresh top end 1st kick cold start ITZ a beast I guess I’ll keep it 🤟🏾

@@LORDFOOTAGE2020 I definitely would, give it another 10 years and they will be VERY hard to get.. Enjoy..

I had the RM465 the year or so prior. Had the best suspension for its day. I even raced it stock, and I was only 5’7” 150lbs. So much fun

With the pork chops

I have no place to ride anywhere near me. Thats why I sold my 91’ cr500 back in 98’ 🙁

Deano W, broooooo that’s the saddest shit ever, cr500s are fuckin amazing, my brother had a kx just a year back and I loved riding it, unfortunately he sold it