I raced an RM400 for my local Suzuki dealer in 1978. It also had the Thor swingarm and MX Fox air shox ( which had to be maintained diligently ). Unlike most MX bikes back in the day, it took an extra measure of training to stay in the saddle of this beast, as the torque was arm stretching. Many happy rides and many podiums...

Love how you have matching race gear, to every bike you ride!

The piston noise of air cooled is epic!

DeCoster was just next level talented!

So impressive how you keep coming up with all these awesome memory machines. I love seeing them, brings me back to such an awesome time. Have a merry Christmas and prosperous new year!!!!

I saw Roger win Unadilla 1976, the third year in a row he won. Suzuki won Unadilla 6 out of 10 years in the 1970's

I had a 76 ,370 bought it after it was raced one winter in Florida. It was so fast. Better have your riding boots on when you go to start it up. If it kicks back if it doesn’t throw you over the bars the kick start arm will go up your shin . Still have the dents in my shin. Ride a wheelie when ever you want. Love the sound of it. This tank is not compressed in from knees trying to not fall off. Great score Ken. Great memories. Don’t miss the broken bones but miss the adrenaline rush you get when you come back and nothing broken, not the bike but you. Merry Christmas Everyone.

As always Ken and crew a stunning example of true fun on two wheels. Truthfully we really need to step back go back and think about what was the right thing. Less complicated is always better. 👍

Roger Decoster, my hero.

Fantastic paint job on the tank! Great looking bike!!

Wow!! Another beautiful bike!! 👍🇺🇸🤠

I purchased a 1976 RM370 at a garage sale as a basket case rolling chassis. I restored it in 2001. Suzuki still had almost all the parts still available. I sold it for 3,500 dollars. I wish I had kept it. I will say I almost looped it out lol It was a real fire breather!!!!

Beautiful bike. I remember my uncle had the rm 370 he use to ice race it, as a young kid that 2stroke sound just grabbed your attention especially the big bores even at 50 I still love that beautiful sound. Keep up the great work guys 👍

Roger Decoster was one of my favorite riders back in the day a long with his team mate that rode with him in the open class.

Priceless Unobtanium

I could listen to that thing all day. What a sound.

I have had 30 bikes and my '77 was the one I loved best.......that sound is making me smile SO hard!

Nice looking and running bike. My recollection is at that time the factory Suzuki's and their production bikes had little in common while Maico and Husky were close to or identical to the previous years factory GP bikes.

That is just bad ass! MMMMM love the rear suspension! A beast!

Decoster was one of my childhood heroes and that RM370 is totally sweet , love the Thor swingarm and those Fox air shocks boy would I love to ride it

Had a 76 RM-250, loads of fun on that bike!

Met and talked with Roger Decoster in 1992 at a motocross national at BUDDS CREEK Maryland . Had a Real nice 15 minute chat together and realized that after I had gotten home later that evening that I forgotten about asking for his John Hancock 😖 I guess I was in so much awe of meeting and talking to such a huge motocross racing legend !

I remember my dad telling me that he met Roger decoster and a few other guys up at Carnegie hills in Livermore California back in the early 70's. Good ole days for sure!

Nice bike! I love looking at these bikes. I got to see Roger DeCoster and Joel Robert race at Puyallup, WA Early 70's. Joel won. He was an animal.

I wish you and your family a great Holiday. , thanks for all the great videos.

Love to hear when it's on again to rip some houses of the foundation in New England!

I remember the first time I saw a RM-370. Beast

Ken, Next time Roger comes to your area for Sx/MX, bring the bike to the track. Get him to sign it and take many pictures. Roger was my Favorite Rider (The Steve McQueen of MX) of the 70's. Hey A.J.!

I’d love to sound that Suzuki motorcycle make it completely different then anything else and I just love the sound that they make because I had a TS 125 Suzuki and a TM 125 Suzuki back in the bay as a teenager and still love there sounds of them a I am glad you bring them back once in a while so I can remember what they sound like just love it, happy holidays to you and your family ken.

To have this and the Maico Black Widow! What more could I say!

Mr Kaplan you are truly a 2 stroke legend love your videos And the bike is amazing!

That is 😎and love the matching old skool gear,things like that is why you are top shelf at what you do👍🏻

Matching gear is kool!!!

Ok, just please admit it. You’ve got a Time Machine in a back room in your shop??? These bikes are true history and you’ve got a hell of way of displaying them. Nice work.

Hat off to you! Crazy cool! I have worked on those and enjoyed the era of all of the brands! I started working at the dealership a in 1976! Love the oldies!

And a wow again, what a stunning machine..

Extremely bad ass motorcycle. I love the boots!!! The same type I wore In high school

Happy holidays everyone!! Hope everyone has a safe Christmas and New Year! Don't forget to Smile 😊😊😊

The RM “steel tank” bikes were game changers, thanks Mr DeCoster. The predecessor TM models were suicide machines.

Back in 76 a local expert named Pat Richter here in Nor Cal rode for fox and his looked just like that. I think with Simon's on front

This is a mint bike lap love seing a rm370

A bike ahead of its time nice aluminium tank this bike was class nice 370

Omg a lapel microphone?!?! Finally! WOOO

Awesome Bike!.. I remember them when they hit the dealers...

I always have to return to these fox 🦊 Moto rm specials because they look so unique Eye candy priceless rare beasts, it doesn't get any better than this and Ken gets to ride the lot, now that's being seriously blessed 🙏😇

Another cool video ken that bike is a beauty brings bk a few memories used to have a rm500 it was a wheelie machine 🤘🤘🤘

Beautiful bike. Currently getting a 1977 RM370 race ready for the summer. What a thumper! Not a quiet bike to say the least.

Sweet Ride! Sweet Apparel! Sweet Life!

Glad to say I owed one. Woukd love to find a restoeable one

Perfect time machine.

I love the matching kits and great riding as usual.

Blast from past. 👍👍👍

Out in the sand dunes of Florida,out there in our 250 enduros when someone showed up w/ 1 of these we used to get the hell out of their way & watch.

Loves his frame rails!

I'd have that over any new bike anyday of the year

In 1976 I was 16 years old, and I got my Dad to buy me a 1976 Suzuki RM 100 2 stroke, with the down pipe and dual shocks on the back. It cost $800, and it was so fast it beat the same year Kawasaki KX 125 my friend had. And I weighed about 30 lbs. more than he did, and that little RM 100 would still beat his KX 125 in a drag race.

Not a Suzuki factory race bike, but a master-class lesson of US mx tech for 1976 which many probably felt was better than a factory bike.

very nice machine. thanks for the video of it.

1976 rm370..... absolutely love it. But I must admit... it's a first for me... never knew Suzuki even done an RM370. It's modern looking for its year. Definitely like it. Cheers again Ken .😀👍

Flipping beautiful !!

You guy's got the flipping coolest bikes . Can I have that for Christmas ?

Thats a nice one, and someone did a good job with the mods but there isn’t a production bike from back then that is anything close to the actual works bikes. Most don’t share more than two or three parts with the production model. Especially Rogers bikes.

Bristling with trickery. 👍

Rode the heck out of one of those back in the day. Even had the same Fox Airs, Al Baker Fork kit, & 6 pedal reed. Loved that bike. Couldn’t keep foot pegs from sagging after a while. Those were the days.

I loved Moto-X Fox, in those days.

Looks good, sounds good, gets the wheel up. Awesome 🔥💪

Steve Wise is the first thing that comes to mind when I saw the tank

Those Fox shocks were the shiznitz back in the day. Also these 370's had tons of low end power.

Looking good ken, god bless!

It sounds sick. Sweet pipe.

The factory race bike was the RH 370 saw him race in Copetown Ontario Canadian GP riding the RH 😊😊😊😊😊😊

Only channel i tolerate waiting for yewtoob commercials to finish so i can watch..RMs..the Honda nemesis back in my day..they were all super fast..the 80 was even scary coming off my cr 125!

That must have been the muts nuts in '76. To me the back end looks awesome, but cant help but think it makes the front forks look a bit 'inadequate' 🤔 🏍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Happy Holiday's to you and your's Ken 🎄🎅🤶🎄

If I was a millionaire all of them would be mine, I saw Joel Robert’s and Rodger Decoster on the 250’s at the 71 GP at Saddleback, Adolf Weil on his Maico led the first few laps, Robert did a cross-up directly in front of me that burned my mind like a laser😳 the following week was the 500 GP at Carlsbad, Bruce Brown was filming “zoom Any Sunday”, at Sadfleback and Carlsbad. I was in the movie as a spectator🥰♥️📡‼️👍

Good crew 👍😊

Ken remember the first Craigslist a mag called buy n Sell cost you 1.00 you could advertise for free. I bought 370 for 100.00 back then. Bike been outside years. Bald back tire hooked sprocket fork seals gone. Started didn't run very well dirty carb. Took it through the gears. Paid the $ took it home week later I clean the carb. Didn't do anything else. We're I was living at that time. Rent a 20 acre farm 150' gravel driveway to the main road. I flipped it in 2nd gear going down it it's first run. I've owned few bikes not as many as you. For what it was unrestored claped It was one of the fastest bikes I ever owned. Too bad the steering head had problem's of going right while the rest of the bike went left. Usually after a long downhill jump.

Merry Christmas All.

That is beautiful

That's a beautiful bike bro

Roger de coster !! A Well known Belgium champion!! How is this bike end his carreer in Amerika ☺️

Ooooohhhh I WANT this BIKE!!!

Very sweet bike.

Roger decoster and Carlsbad 500 curse. Just couldn't get a win their from what I remember. I wonder where is Brad Lackey Honda rc500 Works bike? Scrap pile or still in existence? Oops, got off topic. Beautiful Suzuki you got there!

I rode one of these that was in great shape, at the time i owned an 83 rm500 and i actually think the 370 was quicker atleast it felt that way, i also rode an 81 cr450 and that definitely was quicker than my rm500. The rm500 was the slowest big bore bike i ever tried. I know of others that say theirs was a rocket but i owned one that ran like it should and it was no firecracker

🤣🤣 junior trying to talk his dad outta doing hole shots.

That’s a bike 👍🏻👊🏻✊🏻

I mentioned Fox shocks to some young guys a few years back, and they thought i was making stuff up🤣

I cannot get mine to idle , but also get the adrenaline shakes when running, love my rm370.

Smokes better then Uncle Lewis's cigar at Xmas vacation

Should be in Barbers Museum.

i had one of these nice bikes thought mine was a 78 who knows im to old now lol

⚡👁⚡ CLASSIC

Man that motor is extremely tight and I could barely hear any fins rattling, I f I had my eyes closed I would of guesed it was liquid cooled also air cooled.bikes don't seem to ever have the jetting spot on where's this thing is the CRISPYEST, SHARPEST Sounding exhaust note I EVER HEARD ON A CLASSIC 70S MX BIKE.... phenomenal.....the idle sounds so dialed in and I can imagine putting a Keihin air striker on her, although I can't imagine any carb getting the jetting better than what it is now....

Pretty sure the 77 RM was the first year of the leading front axle forks?

I've always wondered why Suzuki chose 370cc?

Unreal

Greetings from Woodstock ct love today's costume unafuckingdilla

Hey Kap, would a Suzuki L20 Jeep complete your collection?.. they were cool little vehicles.. The had a 360twin 2 stroke motor in them.. about 2/3rds the size of a CJ5... They are still out there...

Had this exact same bike. The power and the torque was just too much for the woods. So traded straight up for a 76 yz 250.

Ass end of that thing is Pure Unobtainium!