SUZUKI B120

SUZUKI CALLED IT THE B120 Student but everybody calls it the Bloop It doesn t really fit Suzuki s 1960s and 70s style They were busily turning out powerful two-strokes and small sportsters like the T125 Stinger for the teenage buyer or the disc valve equipped A100 single for the commuter market But at the same time they were producing tens of thousands of these little piston-ported two-strokes.

Although it had a 118cc engine Suzuki called the first model a B100 which has to be a rare occasion when a manufacturer has advertised a motorcycle as being smaller than it actually was The B100 became the B100P when it was fitted with an oil pump to end the chore of pre-mixing petroil It also meant that in most markets it gained the curious moniker of the Bloop It was stuck with this nickname right through its life even when Suzuki decided to call it the B120 instead.

The B100 arrived in 1964 with its target market being the workers of South East Asia. It used a pressed steel frame and had big chrome panels on the petrol tank.

The first models lacked anything in the