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RG Racers: Perry Black
MRA racer on an RG500
Above Photo at Pueblo, Colorado
Perry said:
"Your early RG experiences sound a lot like a carbon copy of mine.
The bike was fast when it ran (I never was) and it seemed like something always broke or at very least needed attention.
You probably know (?) I bought a GHN transmission gear set, tried my best to kill it but couldn't hurt it!
The cylinders were about used up so I LA sleeved all 5 of them back to standard bore. On my first race I shattered a couple of new wrist pin thrust washers which killed a rotary disk, that didn't exactly make my day.
I bought new rotary disks and made thrust washers from "Nitronic 60" a material that is 25% chrome, very slippery, and refused to crack even when bent over double and hammered into oblivion.
Well feel free to post my RG pic on your site if you want.
It was a fun bike and that's all I wanted to do with it was have fun.
After racing one thing or another for 40 years before I bought the RG I was pretty much done being competitive, just wanting to have a little fun was all.
This is about the only RG pic I have in stock, just me playing at Pueblo which was a good long track for the RG and better for me, this pitiful rider, because the RG could really stretch its legs on the long straights.
Since I retired I've built a couple big deal dragster chassis and done not nearly enough on my '23T project with supercharged inline six engine, all home built stuff, very time consuming.
Randy Norian - rg500delta@mac.com
BTW that is not perry in the photo below, but it IS his letter:
