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- From: pab@security.mitre.org (Paul A. Bicknell)
- Subject: Re: Suzuki RE-5?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.163443.22988@linus.mitre.org>
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- References: <1993Jan17.214438.1566@galaxy.gov.bc.ca> <mjs.727365063@zen.sys.uea.ac.uk> <BLEVE.93Jan19122758@hoggle2.uucp>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:34:43 GMT
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- In article <BLEVE.93Jan19122758@hoggle2.uucp> bleve@hoggle2.uucp (Bennett Lee Leve) writes:
- >All the ones I have seen have been in pieces in garages.
- >I actualy drove on once, and what a piece of crap.
- >
- >I think it was nicknamed 'Water Buffalo'.
- >--
- >
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- >|Bennett Leve 84 V-65 Sabre | mov ah, 04Ch |
- >|Orlando, FL | mov al, 0 |
- >|hoggle!hoggle2!bleve@peora.sdc.ccur.com | int 021h |
- >-----------------------------------------------------------------------
- >--
-
- The RE-5 was a truely weird scoot... It would be very interesting for
- a collector, because it is so unusual. The Wankle motor was
- unbeliveably complicated. The bike only performed so/so at the time
- (~1975), was heavy, and weird looking. One would be a good museum
- piece, or would fit into Jay Leno's collection of oddities. I'd hate
- to try and keep one running...
-
- The water buffalo was the GT-750 two-stroke triple of ~1973-~1977. It
- was one of the first water cooled bikes. It ran in the "Super Bike"
- class of the day with CB750 Hondas, Z1 Kawis, etc. It did 'ok'.
-
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