Project Suzuki RG500 Part 6 - Rotary Club

He’s nearly there! Our Jeff sorts the rotary discs out on the square four and fires her up…

- Jeff Ware

G’day! Well I trust you’ve had a good month or so.I’ve been flat stick on the RG500 as the local postman greeted the kids at our mailbox with some RG goodies a few times. Incidentally, our postman is a cool guy, he rides a mint RG400 and drives an AC Cobra and is from your land! We talk bikes a lot if I see him out the front delivering the post. Bikes are a great leveller eh? So, my rotary discs arrived along with associated O-rings and gaskets and some other bits and I got to work. Before fitting the new rotary valves I removed and cleaned the exhaust power valves. Now, this was a simple task on cylinders one, three and four but cylinder two (front right-hand) proved to be a bit a bugger.

In fact, thanks to just 3mm lack of clearance between the valve housing and the frame engine cradle, I had to drop the engine from its mounts and rotate it back 5mm! What a pain in the ass! Of course, I had already painted and re-fitted the front exhaust pipes as luck would have it… Anyway, it’s done for another 3000-miles.