Provenance is an important word when it comes to items of a heritage nature. It is used to add more of a 'story' to these items usually associated with owners and/or events. Walter Wolf is not a name many are familiar with in the motorcycling realm, but for a while he was a main sponsor for a Formula 1 team in the seventies and sponsored the official factory Suzuki team as well and hence these limited edition bikes. They came in three flavours the RG250, RG500 and Warrens one the Japanese market RG400. They were made up until 1987 and were very much the swan song of the large two stroke road bikes along with the Yamaha RZ500. Here is a great article on an a RG500 Walter Wolf from our Aussie neighbour.
https://bikereview.com.au/classic-test-suzuki-rg500-walter-wolf-review/
Warren T has been making noises about acquiring an RG500/400 for a while now, so it was great to see him turning up with one. As you can see from the photos it is in excellent condition and it went really well on our morning run.
This was a little pre Christmas ride to catch up before the silly season. We decided on a short run with Warren offering to take us to Shannon via some roads most of us wouldn't have been on. He even promised a few sweeping corners. Good to see Sir Al on his H2 which nicely contrasted Warrens RG400 as two generations of two stroke 'big' bike development. Warren M had his XJ900 out for a spin and Dave was out on his Guzzi Le Mans. Paul H left his Le Mans at home and brought out his new Moto Guzzi V85TT with Stuart on his trusty KLE 500 and Bruce S bringing out his Ducati 999S for a spin and Ian on his trusty W650. Rich was out adding more kays to his Vstrom 650 and yours truly on the GSR750. Warren delivered on his promise and we had a great little run with us eventually coming out just north of Shannon.
We had a very pleasant 'cuppa' at the The Horseman's Cafe where they have a great selection of cabinet and menu food. There was talk around the table on the number of VJMC bikes emerging from garages shortly with the summer motorcycling season in full swing. I had better get the T500 sorted out to join the classics party. Dave has sorted the electrics out so hopefully just some carb fettling to do.
It's so easy when you have a modern to 'revert' to it so a little reminder that our end of month rides are going to privilege the classic bikes for determining the 'tenor' of these runs.
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