Suzuki TS250 (a.k.a. Savage): 1969-1981. (Retrospective).

Publication: Rider

Publication Date: 01-OCT-02

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COPYRIGHT 2002 Ehlert Publishing Group

Remember when a 250 single was considered a perfectly good street bike, with plenty of power to accelerate into traffic and move along with the masses on the freeway? Lots of us do.

This nice little Savage two-stroke, in full street and trail regalia, was a good example. As a matter of fact, it came out about the same time as Yamaha's DT1 and Kawasaki's 250E, also two-stroke 250 singles with knobbyish tires, upswept exhaust and pretensions at being good woodsers. Eight hundred bucks and the affluent high-school kid or working college student had a bike that would get him, or her, to school and back, around town, and provide some fun out in the local state or national forest.

Suzuki liked to refer to the TS250 as a "Dual-Stroke Enduro," with...

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