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Suzuki RGV250 'Race Replica': Riding a 40-Year-Old Two-Stroke That Still Hits Hard

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Suzuki RGV250 'Race Replica': Riding a 40-Year-Old Two-Stroke That Still Hits Hard — PHOTO — ANDAR DE MOTO / © Andar de Moto↗ View original

Portugal's Andar de Moto published a Lisbon road test of a 1992 Suzuki RGV250 VJ22, its 90-degree V-twin two-stroke making roughly 60 horsepower in a 130kg frame. The piece traces the bike's appeal from its era-defining new price of 1,211 contos — about 27 times the local minimum wage — through photographer Luís Duarte's shoot.

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Looking at this in context — the RG250 debuted in '83 as the 'Race Gamma' and moved 52,000 units in Japan alone — this RGV feels like an inevitability. In '88, VJ21 swapped the inline layout for a 90-degree V, and by '92 the VJ22 hit 60 horsepower. What the era demanded of a two-wheeler was the right to call itself a road-going replica.