Greetings from Portugal
 

Hi there!

I actually dont own a Suzuki GZ250, but her sister the GN250. I believe the engine is exactly the same, so I am very happy to have found this fantastic forum. Not much info or many GN250 users on the web...

I bought this bike 3 week ago with 13.000km (1993) and after doing a home revision (new oil, filter, air filter, front tire) I already rode her for 1200km.
Most my rides are commutes with 32 km distance, 20 of which on highway speeds (around 100km/h at around 6100 r/min).. hope that's not too rough on the engine, is it?

Greetings from the sunny Portugal and wish you all good rides!

Sergio

(and sorry about my poor written english)

Re: Greetings from Portugal
 

Welcome Sergio. It is always great to have a new member and to hear from some one from far away places. If possible can you post pics so we can compare the bike to a GZ. I seem to remember the GN in Canada years ago but I don't think it was sold in the U.S. Might be interesting to our American members.

Re: Greetings from Portugal
 

Still dont have many photos, but here they go:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3491/...90da616237.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3277/...bd883eae9f.jpg

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/6294/igp9332.jpg

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/4663/igp9323.jpg

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/48/igp9326.jpg

Regards,

Sergio

Re: Greetings from Portugal
 

Looks like the GN has a bit more info on the dash. A tach, for instance, and I'm going to guess you might have more rational blinker indicators - and possibly.... a fuel gauge? What's on that black thing between the speedo and the tach?

Front wheel looks skinnier - sort of Honda Rebel like.

Re: Greetings from Portugal
 

Nice ride, I like the chrome front fender too! I think your GN looks better than my GZ did, maybe I'm just sentimental for the older styles. Anyway, Welcome to the forum!

Re: Greetings from Portugal
 

Add a FI engine and we get a TU 250 by the looks of it. The center piece between the tach and speedo would be would be a neutral indicator, hi-beam and signal indicator. If I am right I can reward myself with a donut. LOL. Suzuki also made a GN 400 verticle twin at one time. Too bad they are not still making them.

Re: Greetings from Portugal
 

Check out the GN250 etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_GN_Series

Re: Greetings from Portugal
 

Not at all! I wouldn't have guessed that English wasn't your first language, until you used the word "revision". We use the same word here (Tenerife). The English word is "service" :2tup:

Re: Greetings from Portugal
 

You're absolutely right :) (is there a donut smiley?)


Service! Yes... that's it ehehe :)


I wish I had the 400cc version, but dont think they came to Portugal... Anyway, 250cc is surelly more economic... just started doing fuel consumption stats here:
http://www.fuelly.com/sig-metric/21971.png


Regards,

Sérgio

Re: Greetings from Portugal
 

A GN400 Twin, now I would like to have seen that, anybody got pictures of one? Why do the bike mfg's stop making these great "smaller" bikes? There has got to be a market for them. I know I'm not interested in a 1000cc bike and I don't think I will be in the future, but I think the smaller bikes are cool and there just aren't many of them being made anymore. :??: