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Just out of curiousity -
I was watching some youtube vid of a gt750 and it sounded soooo badass. I must have one. The problem is that they're effing expensive as hell.
How well does the T500 compare? They're much much cheaper.
The T500 is about as close as you can come to the british building a two stroke. Seriouly, Suzuki bit off a lot of stuff from Norton and Triumph in building the Titan. Stock the tiran pulls like a 4 stroke - it has a very wide powerband and kicks in fairly low. It is light, flickable and makes decent hp. The down side is that it is buzzy espically through the footpegs and handlebar, and long periods on it make it uncomfortable. It also doesn;t have that triple sound. Suzuki made the bike so you can use it everyday and it is one of the most reliable two strokes there is. It is also stone simple to work on and a lot of guys build race bikes out of them.
The GT750 is a fast touring bike. I would compare it more to the SOHC cb750 and kz900 than to the Kawasaki H2 or RD400. Lots of power, and comfy as heck. A lot of the buzziness with the t500 is gone and you can literally sit on the thing for days if you needed to. Two of the guys on the suzuki board are iron butt record holders, one on a GT750 the other on a GT550. Once again it has a powerband like a 4 stroke, so you can use the bike everyday if you wanted (anybody who has ever ridden an h1 or h2 in the rain will understand this statement). The downside is that if it has been sitting the cooling system has likely corroded and also the bike is heavy (which means it needs every inch of that dual disc system).
In terms of usefullness, if the T500 is a ferrari 355, then the GT750 is a bently azure.
Price wise I don't see much of a difference. Maybe $500 at most. Restored gt750s are more common than T500s.
A t500 and GT750 BTW share the same pistons, Literally - they have the same parts numbers. I think the GT750's center one is just an extra T500 Left piston.
