My Suzuki GT185 walk around and engine run up

After nearly three years with a destroyed crankshaft, parts were gathered and the engine rebuilt by Scottish Twinshock Motocross legend Pail “Maico” Chiappa. I dedicate this rebuild to the memory of my late Dad who sadly passed away last year. Love you and miss you Faither xx

[Shinysideup]

My fist bike was a Suzuki Gt185. Loved it, wish I still had it. Watching your video brought back lots of fond memories

[not-pc]

Absolutely beautiful - mine was exactly the same colour- brought mine brand new from our local Suzuki dealer in 1978 as I recall- quite a fast bike from memory and I put quite a few miles on it in the 2 years that I owned it - never missed a beat and was still going strong when I sold it - thanks for the memories and the video of your beautiful machine - cheers from Tasmania 👍

[nickpasch]

This machine has the "fat" sound on idle that suggests a well adjusted idle circuit. Gratz.

[kevinpollard]

Love it i had a 250 a in gold miss her now

[tytaylor]

I had an x7, same time as a friend of mine had a late model one of these (with alloys?) The GT185 had the sweetest most regular and slightly muffled tick-over, plus the best pull away sound on any two stroke. For a ride I'd go x7 or RD400. For the noise, GT185 or the' Kettle'. Cheers Grasshopper.

[the_forbinproject]

nice to see another GT185 back on the road, this is the A variant I see but the side panels are painted the same as the tank, I take it thats original along with the chrome headlight ? sorry to ask - doing some research you see . ( black headlight bowl and side panels are supposed to indicate a "A", chrome was "M" but there appears to be a lot of crossover )

you were lucky to get the crank rebuilt as getting hold of crankshaft web is a hard task(!), thanks

[steveo]

Fantastic machine, why did the 185 have an electric start and 250s not.

[mrdl]

Interested in selling it? DM me! Fabulous bike.