Open call for TU250 information, pics, specs, manuals, etc..
 

Send me anything you can find.

If you have a manual and can scan it, even better, or if you can spare it a couple of weeks I will front shipping to and from and scan it myself. A service manual would be nice too.

Email all information you can (no matter how little or insignificant) to me at admin@tacogod.com

If you have a TU250 or any variant of the GZ, let me know.

Thanks

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My TU didnt even come with an owners manual.

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Over here, when you buy a vehicle, you get a few "bits of paper" to satisfy the police, (if you get stopped) but the manuals etc. arrive a couple of weeks later with the official paperwork. That means that for the first - critical - couple of weeks, you have no idea how the manufacturer wants you to treat the vehicle. You don't even know what grade petrol to put in.

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I read somewhere the owner's manual comes stored in one of the side panels.

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If you can't find the manual under the seat or behind a side panel you can order one. When we got Lynda's GZ there was no manual and the dealer kept putting us off about it. I just went to the local Yammer dealer and ordered one. He was happy to take more of our money.

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I looked under the panels, found the tool kit, but no manual. I will also keep an eye on the mail.

But, there is a guy on the yahoo tu250 group that has the service manual and might be willing to let someone make a copy of it. His e-mail is maxrph(AT)yahoo.com

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I just checked and found "TU250bike.com" is an available domain name if anybody wants to startup a dedicated forum for the TUs. I'd follow.

Interesting info:

1) the GZ250 is no longer available in the US it seems. Lucky that bike has been around for a decade so there's plenty of NOS in the US.

2) Suzuki motorcycle shops tell me that its "hard" to get new Suzuki bikes now at the end of 2011.

3) I haven't seen new TU250X nor Boulevard S40 Suzuki bike in my local Suzuki motorcycle shops for a year though both are now legal in California. They say where California goes, the rest of the US follows, especially with imports from Japan :)

4) I've seen many reports that the TU250 uses the "same engine" as the GZ250. But if you compare the top end, there's only one exhaust port on the TU. Don't know if the rest of the TU is the same as the GZ. At least the TU head is different from the GZ head.

5) I prefer the look of the TU, but it doesn't come in black or the faster red this year :)

lenkf

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.........But only if Suzuki fit it with FI!

If you look on totalmotorcycle, you'll see a few carb bikes that say "Not available in NA"

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It seems like nanny state USA no longer wants any vehicles bought as new to be fitted with a carb. Seems like they will only accept new vehicles with fuel injection. At least, that's how it comes across to me. A lot of the bikes with carbs state "Not available in North America" e.g Yamaha 1100 custom, 100 classic, 650 classic, 1100 silverado, 650 silverado, to name but a few. All carbed bikes. Other manufacturers sometimes don't even bother putting carbed bikes on the list. Could be wrong, but, like I said, that's how it appears to me. :)

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Well I do know that a lot of has to do with CA crazy emission laws plus the European Union Laws. (It was the EU Laws that kill my Katana from going in to production past 2006) With Europe being a huge chunk of the global market. They will build and ship bikes to satisfy that market.

With My Katana, the EU Laws on Emissions barred any bike over 500 cc's from using carburation as its fueling source

Taken From Wikipedia on Motorcycles.

Environmental impact


In 2007 and 2008, motorcycles and scooters, due to good fuel efficiency, attracted interest in the United States from environmentalists and those affected by increased fuel prices.[69][70] Piaggio Group Americas supported this interest with the launch of a "Vespanomics" website and platform, citing lower per-mile carbon emissions of 0.4 lb/mile (113 g/km) less than the average car, a 65% reduction, and better fuel economy.[71]

Other sources, however, claim that while motorcycles produce much less pollution in terms of greenhouse gases, a motorcycle can in some cases emit 10–20 times the quantity of nitrogen oxides (NOx) when compared to the NOx emissions of a car.[69][72] This is because many motorcycles lack a catalytic converter to reduce NOx emissions, and while catalytic converters have been used in cars long enough that they are now commonplace, they are a relatively new technology in motorcycles.[69] Many newer motorcycles (such as later models of the Yamaha R1 and Suzuki GSXR1000, as well as most BMWs which have included catalytic converters since the 1990s) now have factory fitted catalytic converters. Along with other technologies that have taken longer to appear in motorcycles (e.g. fuel injection, anti-lock brake systems),[citation needed] catalytic converters are becoming increasingly commonplace.

United States Environmental Protection Agency 2007 certification result reports for all vehicles versus on highway motorcycles (which also includes scooters),[73] the average certified emissions level for 12,327 vehicles tested was 0.734. The average "Nox+Co End-Of-Useful-Life-Emissions" for 3,863 motorcycles tested was 0.8531, for a difference of about 16%, not the claimed 10X factor. Likewise, if one looks at how many of the 2007 motorcycles tested were also catalytic equipped, 54% of them, 2,092, were equipped with a catalytic converter.


Hence with the bike not having the proper Euro III specifications, Suzuki Halted production of the Katana 600 and 750, and worked to update and replace models that would fall into the Euro III guidelines. The Katana was replaced two years later with the GSX-650F and finally with the GSX-1250F models to meet such requirements.

My take on it...
What I believe is the root of the problem is that most of us (Myself included) Hate taking a bike to a shop for ANY reason. including tuning and Jetting etc etc. Now that most of the bikes are going EFI, its eliminating the "Shadetree" Mechanics of yesteryear.
When running, My Katana made me extremely happy, it didn't give me many problems, and she never saw any shop time. I did the work myself and was quite pleased. Now she is undergoing a full frame up restore, getting new plastics and such. I will have a very worry free bike for a very long time...

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That's probably due to the silly prices the shops in america charge. Earlier this week I posted that the shop (here in Tenerife) had charged me the equivalent of $3.99 to tighten my chain. Someone came in to reply that in America that'd cost £85.00. I'm not getting any younger, so I hate getting down on cold garage floors. In a few years, you'll probably feel the same, & want to let someone else do the work. :)