2011 RM125 & RM250 test

[TMKIWI]

http://www.dirtbikerider.com/bikes/2011-Suzuki-RM125-i55

http://www.dirtbikerider.com/bikes/2011-Suzuki-RM250-i54

[j.k]

Hello. This seems to be latest version of 2011 model. Sad thing is that it seems to be also the LAST model of two stroke Suzuki.
http://www.valentiracing.it/it/motocross/rm-125.html

According to the latest rumors, Suzuki has already closed two stroke line.
I wrote about it in another topic here.

Very nice looking bike, maybe a little old fashion, but what the hell, in my opinion the best time in motocross was whole 90`s and early 2000. So this bike look VERY FANTASTICO cool in my eyes  

[EJ]

On the Valenti-link, i read that the weight of the RM125 has gone up by 5 kilo's...
Interesting, as the RM 125 hasn't had any changes over the last few years...
And Dirtbikerider even claims a 10 kilogram weight increase (99 kilo)...
A few years ago, Suzuki RM 125 was catalogued for 87-88-89 kilograms, and this was for the same K-models (since 2002).

It seems like the O.E.M.'s are trying to make the 2 stroke sound heavier in weight than they really are...
Unless the current stickerset and graphics really add 10 kilo's...

[j.k]

On the Valenti-link, i read that the weight of the RM125 has gone up by 5 kilo's...
Interesting, as the RM 125 hasn't had any changes over the last few years...
And Dirtbikerider even claims a 10 kilogram weight increase (99 kilo)...
A few years ago, Suzuki RM 125 was catalogued for 87-88-89 kilograms, and this was for the same K-models (since 2002).

It seems like the O.E.M.'s are trying to make the 2 stroke sound heavier in weight than they really are...
Unless the current stickerset and graphics really add 10 kilo's...

  Hah hah.

I was wondering that weight thing also. Dry weight 125 RM 99kg, what the hell, where these specs come from? I've seen a lot of different dry weights through the years. I remember 84kg, 87kg, 92kg...
Perhaps the factories are trying to raise the figure on paper, only to disguise the real weight difference between two-stroke and four-stroke. Modern 250f weight easily over 100kg! On paper it looks heavy, when compared it 125-2t, what weighs less than 90kg. And remember, 125 Suzuki has remained unchanged for nearly 10 years.

[yo_marc]

I noticed weight differences lately also.. I think it's because Suzuki is measuring the 250F's 'wet', and from what I remember, the older 125's and 250's were measured dry.

My '00 RM250 is listed as 212lbs / 96kg dry... not sure how true that is.