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This weeks collection comes to us from Ed Tashjian.

I thought this would be a nice entry to your collection section. This is in honor of Georges Jobe' who we lost this past Dec 21, I never had the honor of personally meeting him, but I did have the good fortune of finding a very nice piece of his motocross Grand Prix history. This is one of his 1982 RH82 Works Suzukis, this is one of his bikes that he used to battle all season long with Danny La Porte and finished second to Danny that year. This bike here has the cylinder intake tract engraved with three GPs it was raced at (GP of Russia, GP of Pain, & GP of Holland). I've always been a fan of Suzukis and especially late 70s early 80s Works bikes and never got close enough to see how cool these were until after I acquired this bike . As I mentioned I never had the honor of meeting Georges, and I'm sorry about that and very saddened of his passing. These photos are in honor of Georges Jobe. RIP Champ.

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laidbacklenny wrote: 9:18am January 20, 2013

Thanks for sharing. Just before the safety seat era. Rode an RM250 occassionally in 1982. Other than the front end, the bike was a blast.

ElsinoreRacer wrote: 12:33pm January 20, 2013

I guess all us old Armenians collect old MX bikes. A Factory bike, especially of that era; just awesome. Could you resist riding it? Just once...

BigUglyManiac wrote: 3:07pm January 20, 2013

I nice tribute. Merely a tool for talent to use, but since he used it, he thought that it would get the job done. What a nice piece of jewelry

DPR57 wrote: 5:13pm January 20, 2013

Awesome specimen !! I rode the garden variety '82 & '83 RM 125 (Swiss cheesed my air box just like it lol) in Ca Golden State Series....I loved mine...but hey, I was young, but it seemed great for that time. Thanks for the memory lane trip lol
Great Bike !!

tonewall wrote: 6:13pm January 20, 2013

Nice bike ...like the drop center 18 (with metz) and the hand built swingarm ...very nice...

carlsbad wrote: 9:53pm January 20, 2013

That seat reminds me of a loaf of bread.....so square.
I'm definitely with BigUglyManiac on his opinion, Jewelry. Those Full Floater RM's were something special.

Haven't I seen this bike on "Works bikes .com" or something?