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As i heard, japanese producers give up on 125cc 250cc and selling licenses. Europe market is full of korean or china (the worst!) cheap bikes.

For example: http://www.mmt.com.pl/st/img/zipp_raven.jpg - body on suzuki license, engine on honda license.
Romet R250 or R150 - under the seat looks like gz :) http://moto.scoti.org/wp-content/upload ... 379962.jpg

Those chinesse ones are produced not very well, made from poor materials. Saving money on every part. Some parts are plastic instead of aluminium or steel.

http://allegro.pl/suzuki-gsxf-600-oraz- ... 58082.html another in this colour, european 2001, they quite rare.
There's another great colour opposite red and orange (don't have photo right now)
New white GZ125 could be bought in Spain.

It's sad that american GZ doesn't have "marauder" logo on tank. GZs in Europe are called Marauders (Canada too?)

Edited: here are 3 another colors from 1999 http://www.bikepics.com/suzuki/gz125/99/pics.asp

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You don't have to tell ME!!!!!!! In 2005 I bought a Lanvertti (Chinese made) The engine was fine (Honda engine) but the rest of the bike had so many faults/problems that the local dealer got me my money back from the importers. That's when I got the Marauder. 20,000 kilometers down the line, no problems whatsoever. :)

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Yes, the Canadian GZ is called a Marauder. The large Marauder emblem on the tank is very nice and adds to the appearnce of the bike.

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So here's the engine. Someone takled about engine guards - my engine wasn't damaged through an accident. Propably it stands on air for a long time (rain, snow, etc). That's because frame and engine painting on left bottom side is almost gone. Right side of engine is not so bad. Damages are only on surface, so i decided to polish it.

Solution:

to buy:
paint and varnish remover,
waterproof impermeable paper: granulation 320, 400, 500, 600, 800, 1000, 1200, 1500, 2000,
polishing paste for aluminium,
polishing paste (not waxing) for lacquer.

First thing is to remove varnish. Then I use paper 320, slide up and down (vertical) to get rid of corrosion of aluminium.
Next I use paper 400, but in left and right direction (horizontal) until scratches from 320 paper are gone. Then 500 up-down, 600 left-right...

On 1 of photos you can see chain cover after paper 1000 - now is in my girlfriend house - she'll do the polishing using first paste for alu, then for lacquer (second one is used to make surface more smooth than alu paste). Yesterday it looked like left side of engine :). I'll send image when it will be done.

That's a very time-absorbing solution, but only chrome will do better than this :).

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A lot of work but the results are very good. Your girlfriend sounds like a keeper.

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Recently she became owner of GZ 125, so it just be couple items more to polishing (she's a polishing freak) :)

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Some things done during Easter (in Poland we have two days off Sunday and Monday):

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Keep it up. This is going to be awesome.

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Some news, but no photos taken yet.

Engine is polished and mounted in frame.

Experienced some problems with the swinging arm. I had to use one from GZ125 because arm from 250 isn't perfectly straight. 125 engine has wider mounting place (pivot? wormhole?) where swinging arm shaft runs. Swinging arm has thinner pivots, so i decided tu fix a few washers on both sides to ensure correct arm position (front and rear sprockets must be parallel and in-line). It isn't professional mod but at least this will keep rear wheel just where it should be.

Photos soon