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1984 SUZUKI DR125 SD

Q:I recently suffered a bout of nostalgia and bought one of these. I passed my test on one many years ago, and, having had lots of big bikes, thought it would be nice to pootle round smelling the fresh air again.

All is fine but it does bog-down a bit, especially going up hills or if accelerating hard. Now this bike is not new and it’s been around the block a bit. The air-filter was completely clogged and this has been changed.

I bought it with

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