July 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.
I have now been tweaking the layout on the pages on my site, trying to make the text a bit larger and easier to read om modern devices. I have also replaced many of the photos and scans to better and larger versions. This tedious work have taken me many weeks, and I'm still not finished.
While browsing all the pages on my site, one by one, I seen what's missing and what pages have not been working properly. I have corrected all the errors I've noticed and tried to fill the gaps with new information and pictures.
Please notify me if you find any errors, 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:
July 2 Updated pages: Right now I am working with the RGV250 model history page. It has taken me a couple of days now, trying to find good picture material and finding reliable facts and specifications. The information varied so much between different sources and different countries that I decided to follow the Japanese version changes and only mention some differences found in some export countries.
July 3 Updated pages: RM50 brochures ('79 Canada), RM80 brochures ('79 Canada), RM100 brochures ('79 Canada), RM125 brochures ('79 Canada), RM250 brochures ('79 Canada), RM400 brochures ('79 Canada). It's the same catalogue on all these pages.
And the same thing on these pages: DS80 brochures ('79 Canada), DS100 brochures ('79 Canada), DS125 brochures ('79 Canada), DS185 brochures ('79 Canada), DR370 brochures ('79 Canada). The same catalogue even on those pages. Some of those DS pages are new. I also added '78 and '85 brochure covers to the DS80 brochures page and a '76 USA pahphlet scan to the RM370 brochures page.
July 6 Updated/new pages: It took me several days but now I think I am quite satisfied with RGV250 model history pages I made. Here's a link to the first of four pages I created. I also updated the RGV250 brochures page (many new brochures).
July 17 I took a few days off and spent more time with my daughter. Today I have spent some time here, by my computer. I created one new page: RG125U Wolf brochures with a 4-page brochure from Great Britain ('92). I also updated the TV125/RG125U Wolf model history page, found a couple iof pictures to show.
July 18 New page: Carna F-3 brochures ('87 International)
July 20 New page: Carna model history with photos of the model versions launched in 1985 and 1986.
July 21 New page: Carna brochures ('88 Japan). Updated page: Carna F-3 brochures ('87 Japan)
July 22 Updated pages: Address 50 brochures ('88 AD50W, '95 AE50, '95 AP50, '96 AP50)
July 23 Updated pages: T250 brochures ('70 Japan)
July 24 I started a 2023 Suzuki models page and split the 2020 Suzuki models, 2021 Suzuki models and 2022 Suzuki models pages in 3 separate pages each.
July 26 I updated the Hayabusa model history page, split it in three parts. It was getting way too long.
July 27 New page: Avenis 125 brochures ('22 Standard Edition, India, '22 Race Edition, India)
July 29 Updated page: 250TA, 250TB and 250TC adverts ('61 Singapore, '62 USA). New page: 50MA adverts ('61 Singapore, '62 USA).
July 30 New pages: MA50 brochures ('61 50MA-C, Japan), GSX150 Bandit model history (2019 onwards)
July 31 Updated pages: DR-Z50 brochures ('22 Japan). New pages: Let's brochures ('21 Japan, '21 New Zealand), Let's model history (2021-2022), Let's 110 brochures ('14 India)
