Suzuki PE250B a Bike Full of Memories
There are some bikes that inspire awe and others which generate loathing. Mainly though, motorcycles are memorable merely because they are solidly unremarkable. These machines have a brief period of being fashionable, and desirable, and then fade into obscurity.Then, very rarely, there appears a bike that engenders affection, a motorcycle that is the true embodiment of the mechanical horse. The Suzuki PE 250B was one of these.
The Suzuki PE250B designation is both elegant and mundane. PE stands for 'Pure Enduro' to show that the bike was first, last and middle a dirt bike with only a passing nod to road use. Why 'B'? Suzuki briefly had a flirtation with numbering model years by letter and 'B' refers to 1977. This means that there never was an 'A' model.
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