750 kettle use to smoke well as well
didnt suzuki do a rotary engined bike as well?

GT750 Kettle, liguid cooled triple, with led gear indicator.
Early models (J & K) had a radiator fan as standard, though my "A" model didn't.

Loved that bike, but it didn't love me back :(

Honda CBX1000 with its 6 cylinders....Balance the carbs on that baby:o

getting back to mavs original idea best bikes that we have owned

my first ever bike was honda XL125 k2 MPB543P had it for three years ,i put 40000 miles on it, i rode it every where, i abused it to hell and back i could throw it round roundabouts and scrape the pegs not easily done on a trail bike!!!! rebuilt the engine twice cos of broken rings, but for me it was the best bike i owned- even tho it high sided me off and landed on me knee cap and broke it three!!!

DT125 the early dual shock model :)

The newer models just aren't the same :( Although I have just bought a crash damaged one to rebuild....

how long were you looking for one Mr_S?i been looking for xl125k2 for three years!!to do the same, not even the VJMC could help!

My first road motorbike was a XL125K2 (RFC 7P) passed my test on it in Jan 78 and still kept it for another 18 months. Was always scraping the pegs on it as doing so impressed the hell out of my mates on their road bikes.
Mav my HIF also had spannies, they made it sound like a rip saw. I also had a 750 Kettle with a piper 3into1 pipe. Thankfully I didn't go for a RE5
Loads of aircooled RDs usually the 350cc versions although badged as 250s, the YR5 was wild, thank god somebody invented Reed Valves.

Still my Fav bike of my teens and early 20s was my CB400/4

mav, I think your argument has some merit but does not go across the board.
Now I am a bit of a two stroke fan. (no stroke jokes thanks boys)
and would have to say that development from the early models was for the better. KR1 - KR1S much nicer. RGV early twin pipe either side to the M with banana swing arm was the best,
NSR MC16 - MC28 swipe card ignition single side swing arm again much better bike.
I do no what you are saying with regard to the fire blade and it was a brutal bike.
but to compare that to say a SP1 is not fair or is it fair to compare the 916 -999 models,
are you saying then that the 996 or 998 are not as good if not better bike than the original 916 ?
any way I lost myself in all that, but I do think things get better with age maybe just not the new 749 999 series, if it last for 10 years like the previous model did ill have to eat my hat. K

996 gets my vote, have had 916,996 & 999, just something about the 996 engine that I like.

was that a Bip or a SPS you had Roy