Suzuki T20 magazine articles

I have put some T-20 magazine articles on this page. I would be grateful of any contributions — sales brochures, magazine ads, magazine articles, pictures, specs, facts, corrections etc. Please scan the material in JPEG format (large enough that all the details are visible) and send them to me. Please tell me the source and the publication date if possible. If you send me pictures of your own bike, please follow these instructions.

1964 Tokyo Motor Show article published i Cycle World magazine, December 1964 (3 pages). Click to enlarge. Among other new Japanese motorcycle models, Suzuki's ”long-waited” 250cc T20 and the ”twin-port” 123cc S10 were shown here for the American readers for the first time. A prototype of the 80cc ”Mountain Goat”, a farm bike designed in New Zealand by Johnny Callender with Suzuki K10P engine as power source, was also shown in the article.

1967 Suzuki X-6 Hustler magazine article from USA (single page). Click to enlarge. ”13,000 miles with Suzuki's Hustler or, the Japanese think of almost everything”. A nice and personal text written by Rudi Hartmut, a story of his experience with buying and owning a Suzuki X-6. Published in Cycle News magazine, September 1967

Suzuki T20 magazine article from Tekniikan Maailma 7/1968, Finland (four pages). Click to enlarge. The Finnish journalist writes that the T20 is an important motorcycle, mostly for its 6-speed gearbox. He tells that it's rather light, powerful, has great brakes, comfortable, even rather cheap. According to the him (Tapio Sunell) it's almost perfect motorcycle!

Pictures from Brighton Show (Tekniikan Maailma 10/1969). Click to enlarge. I found these pictures on the Finnish Tekniikan Maailma magazine. The magazine covered the '69 International Cycle And Motorcycle Show in Brighton, UK. The racing styled Crooks Suzuki (based on a T20) and the AS50 Sports were the bikes that were mentioned from Suzuki. The author told that the T20 could be made this delicious looking by adding a racing fairing, aluminum fuel tank, racing saddle etc. Eddie Crooks broke several world records in August 1968 with a bike looking exactly like this one. The text mentioned two records: 1 000 km with a speed of 151,786 km/h and 12 hours with a speed of 149,306 km/h. About the AS50 Sports was told that it had five speeds, Posi-force lubrication system, Reed valve, flashers, scrambler styled good-looking exhaust system and it was easy to trim. The price in UK was 129£ and the maximum speed about 90 km/h.

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Sources: Cycle World (USA), Tekniikan Maailma (Finland)

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