Let's just say it only takes one finger to stop this bike!" Colosimo said his custom M21, with nicks and scrapes, and some crash damage, is meant to be not only admired, to be ridden, and "ridden hard." Founding Īround 20, after Colosimo and Streng found themselves unemployed, they decided to start a motorcycle manufacturer. The use of enormous sport bike brakes, designed to stop motorcycles with more than ten times the horsepower, and three times the top speed, was intended, Colosimo said, to create a visual "contradiction", explaining that, "you do a double-take to see what kind of bike sits behind the massive rotors. He removed the rear suspension, making it a hardtail, and installed 19-inch (480 mm) Yamaha XS 650 wheels, a custom exhaust, forks from a Suzuki GSX-R1000, front disc brake rotors from a Suzuki GSX-R600 and a rear rotor from a Suzuki GSX-R750. He had bought the 60-year-old machine sight unseen on eBay, and then rebuilt the unsafe and worn out bike, having to repair previous ill-conceived "chops", or customizations, of the frame. Customization Ĭolosimo's personal motorcycle is a custom motorcycle: a hardtail bobber he built himself, based on a 1954 BSA M21, a 63 mph (101 km/h) workhorse of a motorcycle with a "big, lazy" 591 cc (36.1 cu in) a single cylinder side valve engine, developed from BSA's World War II M20 military service bike. In 2008, Colosimo became an adjunct professor at CIA, teaching transportation design. Īfter Colosimo and Streng were laid off from Dirt Devil, they continued to pursue their interest in bikes. While employed by the vacuum cleaner company, Colosimo built custom motorcycle parts surreptitiously after hours in the company facility, discovering that he could build a café racer style custom bike that attracted as many admirers as a "$30,000 Harley" for one tenth the cost. It always got me into trouble when I worked for someone else." Īfter Johnson Controls, Colosimo worked as a designer for Dirt Devil, together with his friend Jarrod Streng. I'd want to draw the door and the seats and the dashboard, and then fix the whole company. His first job after graduating from college was at Johnson Controls, where his "quest for perfection" was detrimental Colosimo said "I couldn't just draw a door handle on a car when the whole car was screwed up. He attended the Cleveland Institute of Art, graduating in 2004 with a degree in industrial design. If you're looking for a powerful and reliable sports bike, Suzuki motorcycles may be the brand for you.Scott Colosimo grew up in Parma, Ohio, where he began making custom cars and motorcycles in his parents' garage when he was 15 years old. Some names you may recognize include the Boulevard series, DR, DR-Z, GSX-R, GSX-S, Hayabusa, Katana, Marauder, RM-Z, SV650, and the V-Strom. There are several popular models of Suzuki motorcycles today. They've had a total of 93 wins at the prestigious Isle of Man TT Races. Suzuki motorcycles are especially well-known in the racing world. Suzuki now produces the third largest domestic motorcycle sales in Japan.
These were the boost port, the extension chamber, and the rotary valve. In the 1960s, the company developed three crucial technologies that transformed the industry. The GS400 and GS750 were released in 1976 and were the first new cycles Suzuki made since the Coleda COX of the 1950s. Soon after they began making four-stroke engines in order to compete with the broader cycle market. The largest two-stroke cycle they made was the GT750. In those early years and until the 1970s, Suzuki made only cycles with two-stroke engines. The company started its cycle history by producing motorized bicycles in 1952. Suzuki motorcycles are known to be among the most reliable in the industry.
Suzuki is a Japanese manufacturer of both automobiles and motorcycles.