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hitchz1300 wrote: Cheers Rob, will give you a bell when we are up that way.
My father who is retired is a bit of a dab hand at bike restorations, he has restored two suzi re5s and is tidying up this one as well. We think a brake shop should be able to make up a balance tube locally so got fingers crossed.
The re5 went from this....

To this!

Nice looking RE:

Have you seen Jay Leno's RE5 off of his site? www.nbcjaylenosgarage.com

Those RE5s were a great bike except for the fuel consumption figures. I was working for the importers here when they were released and there was enormous interest until the facts on fuel came out in the magazines then all the customers evaporated.
I used to take the demo bike home for a few weeks and quite liked it.

Yes i saw a vid on youtube. His is the M model. V nice it is too.

RickG wrote: Those RE5s were a great bike except for the fuel consumption figures. I was working for the importers here when they were released and there was enormous interest until the facts on fuel came out in the magazines then all the customers evaporated.
I used to take the demo bike home for a few weeks and quite liked it.

Yes the fuel consumption is quite awful! Mine gets on average 10-12 km/litre. That was with a larger main jet than standard though. Have recently gone back to the original sizing so it should improve. Damn complicated carb on it is a nightmare to get just right.