wilbur 1,
I test-rode a Seca 750 the first year they came out('82?) Nice bike, but my '80 KZ750 (Yosh 850 big bore kit, 29mm smoothbores, and Yosh header)would eat it alive. Plus, I wasn't used to the handling effects of the shaft drive.
Man, I LOVE ring-dings! the slickest thing I ever rode was a TZ250. My first streetbike was an old Kaw Mach IV 750. 80+ mph wheelies...my parents hated it (I was 17)
I rode a lot of the RD/RZ 350 LCs, and would have bought one, but I was working in a Suzuki shop. If you like 2-strokes, you would have loved the Suzuki RG500. Change the jets and gut out the silencers, and you had a GP bike! Alas, by the time I could afford one, they wuz gone...Still, at least I got to ride them once in a while.
We Canucks were lucky to catch the last hurrah of the oil-burners. I knew two guys who would buy old RZ350s, and take'em down to Daytona Bike Week. With the high exchange rate, they could sell them to drooling Yanks and make enough profit to pay for the whole party
They'd drive back home with their pals in the van.
Oh, I ain't too worried about Lucky. Those canny Scotchmen can tell when someone's just takin' the pesh outa' them...
JL