You may have seen on previous stories, I got myself a bike and it’s been great. I can’t begin to tell you of the advantages for trips into work, the time and money saving and the simple enjoyment of being out on a nice bike.

For my first bike I found one at a dealer who had second hand ones there. It’s 11 years old now, but this old Suzuki has really kept up appearances and still looks as up-to-date as most of the new ones.

A neat trick with this was the way the put the fuel tank under the seat and made the normal spot for petrol as a boot, just big enough to take a helmet. So you can lock up your gloves and brain-bucket and other small items away from the rain while it’s parked.

Having got the bike, and being an internet junkie, a started looking for info, found a few sites, some of which where quite out of date and many of them referring to service manuals, the files of which no longer existed. Worse still were other trawling sites and link generators that pretended to have these books for sale, at a small fee, which I avoided like the plague, hmm, I am an internet junkie.

But I have them, and I am willing to share the spoils of my research for free;

• Suzuki GSX 250F Owners Manual (PDF – 4.5Mb)
• Suzuki GSX 250F Workshop Manual (PDF – 7.6Mb)
• Suzuki GSX 250F Workshop Images and Extra Diagrams (ZIP – 7.9Mb)

And some other sites that I discovered and may help you too;

• Pete’s 250 Across site (with various maintenance and upgrade option ideas)
• A review and another maintenance page
• I am keeping this for a link to some replacement parts
• Suzuki Across (the Organisation)

So, I would be interested to hear from others who have this motorcycle, or have had one in the past. I have met one already when i got mine serviced, and seen others around.
So, particularly those from Melbourne or across riders in general, say hi.