Yup. A 2 stroke is just a whole different ‘thing’.
Canuck? You had a crack at that 400 and didn’t!!! ARGH!!! I hate you ;) I remember reading back then that the 500 was supposedly a bit of a pig, but I just can’t figure how. That engine should have been good for stupid power with a few tweaks/pipes/carb. The handling though I dunno. But it was Star Trek lookingdesign for the era. The FZ later took some of the style ques but it was a whole different bike.
Wait a sec...Stupid memory fault. The 400 I’m thinking of wasnt one of the D\RD/RZ bikes. It was that era but it was a 4 stroke. It had the look of the RZ500 though. does that ring a bell? Same years...84/5 IIRC.