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Saitama-based Ken's Sports has fully customized a Suzuki RG500 Gamma. Genuine bodywork from the 1988 GP500 machine RGV-γ (XR74) has been fitted to the production bike, replicated with no sense of mismatch. It's the shop's fourth 500 Gamma custom build.
Draping genuine works bodywork over a production bike with a completely different chassis, and pulling it off without a single visual break, is entirely a contest of the builder's own aesthetic sense. The idea that the tail cowl being off by just a few millimeters would erase the racer feel gives me chills. Including the owner's sensibility of wanting to admire it stripped of its cowl too, this is a bike that carries real culture.
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Wonder how much a full custom build like this actually costs. Can't even imagine.
The RG500 Gamma was a two-stroke, right?
Right, the square-four 500cc two-stroke. An absolute monster machine.
Putting genuine GP bodywork on a production bike is going to bring out the "such a waste" crowd.
I get it - the bodywork on an '88 XR74 has real archival value, but I also think it should actually be ridden.
This being the fourth build means the know-how's probably fully dialed in - zero awkwardness.
If it's this polished as the fourth build, then sure, it's worth the money for someone.
Genuine works bodywork on an RG500 Gamma gives me chills.
Putting real XR74 bodywork on a production bike... this custom is almost sinful.
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