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Webike revisited Suzuki's 1990s Bandit 250 LTD. Following the bare-naked Bandit 250 launched in 1989, the LTD arrived a year later with a retro half-fairing nicknamed the 'rocket cowl,' a design the outlet says skillfully mixed nostalgia with contemporary 90s styling.
This one takes the raw naked aesthetic of the 1989 Bandit 250 and dares to add a half-fairing a year later. What the era called for wasn't pure sport-replica extremity, it was this kind of hybrid. Even the nickname 'rocket cowl' carries the air of its time.
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This design hits harder now than it probably did then, retro is everything.
What's actually different between the 250 and the LTD?
It's the half-fairing version that came out a year later, same era as mine.
"Rocket cowl," haven't heard that in years, it was huge back then.
Body-color paint on a pipe frame seems like a cost nobody would eat today.
