Description
27th Oct, 2024 10:00
The October 2024 Auction
1974 Suzuki TC185
‘The Ranger’
Estimate
£2, 500 - £3, 000
Buyer's premium: 15. 00%
Lot details
Registration: KVP254N
Frame: TC185-17738
Odometer: 3, 938
MOT: Exempt
183cc two-stroke, single-cylinder
High and Low ratio gearbox
V5
NOVA reference papers
Dating certificate
Low miles
Just another 1970s stroker trail bike you say…
So it might look like just about any other Suzuki dual-purpose machine of the period, but this one is a little different if you care to delve deeper.
It may look like a TS185, sound like a TS185, and certainly moves like a TS185, but it isn’t a TS185. Low and behold it’s a TC185! A what? Yes, precisely!
Without doubt much of what’s visible seems to be very much TS sourced but as is the way of these things, the devil is in the detail. Look carefully at the left-hand side of the piston-ported motor and you’ll spot a strange lever arrangement. This has a pair of cleated plates rather like a brake pedal at either end and is attached to a shaft that disappears into the bowels of the engine cases. And, perhaps rather confusingly, there’s an ordinary gear lever just a few inches below it - so what is going on here? Welcome to the slightly strange world of Suzuki product placement of the 1970s.
Here we have a Suzuki TC185. This bikes comes with all the papers needed to take it out on the road. Super low miles and comes with V5, dating certificate and NOVA paperwork.
