Description: Yes we combine shipping for multiple purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1974 Suzuki GT550L - 6-Page Vintage Motorcycle Test Article Original, vintage magazine advertisement / articlePage Size: Approx. 8" x 11" (21 cm x 28 cm)Condition: Good • Certain motorcycles thrive within anarrow pathway. You ride such a motor-cycle in a trough; the road forms thebottom, the sides have the scenery' paintedon them. Seldom does the rider's attentionstray from that trough; the machine's me-chanical presence, its communication withthe pavement, keeps the rider focused onthe road. The trough experience is motor-cycling at its high-intensity level.For many riders motorcycling crossesover those borders set at the pavement'sedge. There is a kind of motoring thatextends beyond the road—the focus isbroad, the sweep panoramic. For thiswide-angle motorcycling, a machine neednot have an irresistible, overpoweringcharisma which never releases the rider.Indeed, the bike best not be an obtrusivemotorcycle. Yet mere competence isn’tenough. It lakes a thoughtful, modulated,balanced machine to be an integral partof wide-angle motorcycling without dom-inating that experience. The SuzukiGT 550L is that sort of thoughtful, modu-lated. balanced motorcycle.The GT 550 glides along on a 55-mphfreeway, no more intrusive than a shadowand nearly as quiet. The from end soaksup the jarring from lane-divider reflectorswhich California pastes down on the ce-ment. Bui the 550 isn't a BMW R90S. Allthe ripple-like pounding hasn't beenscotched because Suzuki has carefullybalanced the suspension for bothstraight-up highway riding and winding-road drills. The saddle has 250 miles perday in its engineering, though after thatthe rider becomes conscious that the seatis chafing away at his comfort. Part of26SUZUKI GT550L1Suzuki polished a sophisticated design fortwo years—and got the refined GT550Lthe Suzuki's basic luxury stems from, theideal space relationships between the sad-dle and foot- and hand- controls Thatplanning does much to keep fatigue fromcreeping up the backside of your jacket.Perceptive types will notice that the leftfoolpeg is slightly higher than the rightone; that hardly detracts from the comfort.Yet more than anything else, the en-gine-smooth. unruffled and willing-makes the 550 such a pleasure.Below the 5000-rpm mark, the rubber-mounted three-cyiinder two-stroke is amarvel of smoothness. The exhaust noteis muffled into obscurity. It should be.,with four mufflers and maze of tubes andjoints. The airbox and filter elementschoke down the intake noise to a faint,hoarse whoosh Were it not for the tach-ometer recording the engine’s labors, onemight very' well miss the presence of theengine. Vibration? Those with super-sen-sitive feel may feel a nits-worth of vibra-tion through the pegs. After long milesthere’s a hint or two in the saddle. Outsidethose points, at normal highway-cruiseconditions (55-mph in fifth gear) basicmachine impulses never reach the rider.The engine, of course, has more charac-ter than a large lettuce sandwich builtaround two slices of unleavened bread.The Suzuki triple has greater down-lowpulling power in fifth cog than other me-dium-displacement motorcycles, notablythe Honda CB-550. In passing situations,especially on the great concrete ways,snicking down into fourth is not requiredprocedure. The rider simply stays in fifthgear, turns on the power tap, and whisksforward. Tighter, narrower roads en-... 17382
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