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Message: [QUOTE="dirt bike dave, post: 156526, member: 18302"] The bike did get extensive and extremely favorable press coverage when it was introduced. It was an improvement over previous Suzuki 4 strokes and the mags talked it up as an excellent, affordable trail bike with race potential. Let's just say magazine hype for new models with big advertising budgets is not a recent phenomonon :) While the bike sold well and modified versions were raced by talented riders with some success, the suspension and handling of the stock bike was hardly a step forward from the other machines of the day. Performance was not significantly better than a mid '80's XR350, IMO. Many of us were (I'll be polite here) underwhelmed the first time we rode one after reading how revolutionary the bike was. [/QUOTE]