Updates on my site
May 2022

Here follows the list of the new or updated stuff on my site. There's always some gaps to fill, brochures ti find, stories to tell. It's a never ending job. I hope you appreciate my efforts.


I'm still here... It's been over 20 years now since I started to fill my site with all kinds of Suzuki motorcycle stuff: specifications, photos, brochures, magazine ads... There wasn't any similar sites on the Internet back then – what I know of. I believe I'm still one of the largest, if not the largest size on the Internet including ALL Suzuki motorcycle models. I hope some people think it's also the best. I am trying...

The fact that it was over 20 years ago when I put this website together also means that I made the layout suitable for desktop computers, not for iPads or smartphones (there wasn't any back then). Also, an average computer display was 15 inches large, 27 inches or more is not uncommon these days. The images I uploaded back them (using a 56K dial-up modem) were often very small. ”Even larger picture” back then could be 560 pixels wide. Now it's usually 2000 pixels or moer. Back then, images needed to be small, otherwise people didn't manage to show them on their small screens, with slow computers and slow Internet connections.

It's still basically the same layout I created in 2001. I have tweaked it a little, tried to make the pictures and even the text a bit larger, but it's still basically the same layout as the one I created back in 2001. To change the layout completely would mean a lot of work for me. There's thousand of pages to recreate. It's not broken so I won't fix it, unless I have to. I'd rather spend the time adding more Suzuki stuff on the site than making the site look more modern and more smart phone friendly.

I have had loads of help from visitors to my site. People have scanned their Suzuki brochures and mailed them to me. Examining brochures is not only fun, but it is often the only way to find correct information. The errors often multiply on the Internet, webmasters copy information from each other. I've noticed that mistakes I've made have being copied to other websites.

Please notify me if you find any errors here, either technical or if there's uncorrect information about the motorcycle models. Any problems at all. I do read all the messages although I sometimes react slowly. It is an enormous task I've committed to, telling everything about every Suzuki motorcycle ever made. I will probably never get there, but I'm working on it...

Please keep on sending brochure scans to me! Don't make the scans too small. The bigger, the better! Here's the e-mail address:



May 3   Updated pages: GSX-S1000 model history (More L5 pictures, updated layout), GSX-S150 brochures (M0 Indonesia), GSX1300R Hayabusa brochures (M2 Thailand), C50 Boulevard brochures (M0 Thailand), C800 Intruder brochures (K9 Global, L5 Germany), M1800R Intruder brochures (L5 Germany), C1500 Intruder brochures (L5 Germany), M800 Intruder brochures (L5 Germany), and VL125LC Intruder brochures (L5 Germany)

May 4   Updated pages: GSX-S1000 brochures (L6 Global, L6 Taiwan, L8 Thailand, L8 Australia, M2 Australia), GSX-S1000F brochures (L6 Global, L6 Taiwan, L8 Thailand, L8 Australia), GSX-R1000 brochures (L7 Australia, L7 Taiwan, L9 Thailand), GSX-S1000GT brochures (M2 Australia). New pages: GSX-S1000 accessories (M2 Australia), GSX-S1000GT accessories (M2 Australia)

May 5   I'm still tweaking the layout on the pages on my site, one by one, trying to make the text a bit larger and easier to read om modern devices. Just a little bit larger – so I have to rebuild the entire site (too much work for one man). I hope you find that the layout is getting better.
Updated pages: SV650 brochures (L8 Taiwan, L8 Australia, L8 Global), SV650 model history and all the other SV model pages (layout changes and cleaning html code)

May 6   New page: Visitors' Suzuki pictures, page 140 ('82 GSX750E, '82 GS750T)

May 7   New page: Burgman Street brochures (L9 India, M0 India, M1 India, M2 India). Updated pages: DR-Z400 brochures (K3 Germany), DR200SE brochures (M2 New Zealand)

May 9   Updates: During the last two days I have spent many hours with cleaning and updating the html code in the YEARS section. I started with the 2022 and work towards 1952. I hope I'm done with all the year pages tomorrow. My aim is to make the text displayed larger when browsing the pages with iPhone or other handheld device. Also, I want to make the layout uniform, use commas and dots and such in similar way all across the site. It has been a mishmash of using European, US and whatever standards with lengths and other measures, the data coming from different decades and different parts of the world. It takes time, be patient.

May 10  Updates: I have now finished with updating the html code of ALL of the pages of the YEARS section (1952–2022). I took me three days. I hope the pages look a lot better now when browsing with handheld devices. One of the updgrades is that I put large buttons on every page to navigate with (previous page, next page, previous year, next year).

May 11   Updated pages: A50 brochures ('79 International). I also updated some of the pages on the YEARS section. I uploaded new, better pictures of the 1952, 1953, 1954 and 1955 models, to start with. Now there's commentary text on the pages as well.

May 12   I continued updating pages on the YEARS section. I have now uploaded bigger pictures and added text to the rest of the 1950's pages, that will say the 1956, 1957, 1958 and 1959 pages. New page: 1960–1969 Suzuki lines in Germany ('66 range). Other updated pages: RV50 brochures ('80 Germany), RV90 brochures ('80 Germany), GS850G brochures ('84 Germany)

May 13   I keep on updating pages on the YEARS section, now working with the 1960's pages. I have found new, better pictures and even new models to following pages: 1960, 1961, 1962. I also added the Mini CRO 50 and Mini CRO 75 models to the 1975 page.

May 14  To be able to tell a story, you often need to do a lot of recearch. I have spent hours after hours fine combing the Internet and searching for information; texts, brochures, magazine ads, pictures... During the last few days I have been looking for info of the early models – and find a lot more than I could find 20 tears ago when I started building this site. I have been building my library of Suzuki information, but also updated some pages: 1963 and 1964 on the YEARS section have got some new pictures but even new bike models. And I keep on filling the gaps whenever I find the time and energy.Germany)

May 15   I still keep on updating pages on the YEARS section, finding lots of interesting stuff on the Internet when digging deeper... Many hours passed when I was vacuuming the Internet for Suzuki material. I did make some updates on the 1965 year page and will work later even with the other 1960's models.
While I was searching for information and new pictures I found a rare Selpet M30/M31 brochure from around 1964 Tokyo Olympics (the flag was showing in one of the photos) that I uploaded to both the M30 brochures and and the M31 brochures pages. To find stuff like that makes me glad.

May 16   Updated pages: GSX750S Katana brochures ('84 UK), RM-Z250 brochures (L9 France), RM-Z450 brochures (L9 France), T250 brochures ('72 France), SV650 brochures (L9 France), GSX1250FA brochures (L0 France), TS185 brochures ('72), TS250 brochures ('72)

May 17   New pages: TS80X/RH80X brochures ('84 France, '84 Germany, '85 France, '86 France, '87 France), TS125X/RH125X brochures ('84 France, '85 France, '86 France), TS240X/RH240X adverts ('86 Canada, '86 France, '88 Canada), TS240X/RH240X brochures , '86 France, ('88 France), TS250X/RH250X brochures ('84 Global, '85 France, '86 France, '87 Global). Updated pages: TS250X/RH250X model history (new photos)

May 18   New pages: GP100 brochures ('84 Malaysia). Updated pages: SV650 model history (more L9 photos and info), DL250 V-Strom model history (more photos and info).

May 19   I have started cleaning the html code in all of the DR/DR-Z model pages. It will take a while before I'm finished. I've also added some new photos on the DR-Z400 model history page, and added DR-Z400 models on the 2022 models page.

May 20   I didn't come very far with cleaning the html code of the DR/DR-Z model pages. I got distracted with something else. When I started working again, I decided to start with the letter A and continue through the alphabet. It's a painstaking job, it will take me days, perhaps weeks, to go through all pages, but after I'm done, they will hopefully look a bit better. At the same time I can see what I have done earlier. I don't remember all the pages I've created during the year. Some Suzuki models look unfamiliar to me... Anyway, I started yesterday with the A models and today I have been working with models like the Burgman and now reached the letter D and worked my way through the DR and DR-Z models.

May 21   I have been busy with other stuff, but I have still managed to find the time to clean up the html code of the FR series pages I have. I also added a new page, FR80 brochures with '77 and '79 brochure pages.

May 22   Updated pages: FR50 brochures ('77 and '81 leaflets), DR-Z400 brochures (Japanese DR-Z400S brochure covers), K50 brochures ('70 Japan, '75 Japan), K90 brochures ('70 Japan), K125 brochures ('70 Japan). New pages: F50 brochures, F70 brochures ('70 leaflet on both on them)

May 24   Updated pages: K50 model history (several new photos and facts). I also went through all of my K model pages and made the text slightly larger, as I'm doing with all the pages on my site, one by one.

May 27   I didn't have access to my work computer for a couple of days, I took it to a ”computer doctor” because it had been ill lately. The ”doctor” put in a SSD disc to replace the old disc and now the computer responds much quicker. But for some reason I had trouble in getting my old programs to work. It took me several hours with computer problem solving before I could start working again.
I started again the paintaking work with going throught the html code in all the web pages I've created during the years. I started working where I was before, with the FS50/FZ50 pages. They now look similar to the pages I've updated earlier, with slightly larger text. I also made a new page, FZ50 brochures ('79 Japan). I also went through and cleaned the FY and the FX/FXR pages so I'm done with the letter F and will continue with the Suzuki models starting with the letter G. That will take a while – with all the GS, GSX, GSX-S, GSX-R and GT models... After a good while I managed to update the few Gixxer, GN and GR model pages I have. I also found a '96 GN250 UK brochure that I mounted on the GN250 brochures page. Tomorrow I will start with the GS models.

May 28  Updated pages: GS850G brochures ('79 Germanyl, '86 Germany)

May 29   New page: GS1000S Katana magazine adverts ('82 USA). Updated pages: more GS850G brochures ('80, '84, '85 and '86 International), GS850G model history, GS750 model history... Many of the GS model pages were made over 20 years ago, when I first created this website. I realized that many of the images were really small and there were bits of information missing here and there. I have filled the gaps and replaced the images to better ones, if I could. Therefore, it takes long time to update the pages. But I will go on, take one page at the time and work towards the Z. It may take me weeks, or months. Be patient with me.

May 30   Some Suzuki models are hard to find decent pictures of, the GS650GT being one of them. I managed to find a pretty good (not so big, but ok) picture of the '82 model, that I mounted on the GS650 model history page. Other pages with new material: GS450S adverts ('80 USA), GS450L adverts ('81 USA), GS450T adverts ('80 Germany, '81 USA)

May 31   I keep on updating the GS model pages, correcting possible errors, updating the appearance and filling gaps, if possible. I uploaded a couple of new pictures on the GS400 model history page. On many pages, I replaced the tiny preview pictures to larger images. After finishing the GS pages I continued with the GSR and GSX model pages.