I can't give you much, as I didn't own one, but I'll give you what I have from fuzzy memory. Unfortunately, it was a bit of an oddball. Not so much in execution, but where it fell in the market place. I think they made them 2, maybe 3 years. They made a 600 version too. Suzuki didn't intend it to go head to head with the supersports of the day. It was kinda sorta supposed to be a for a more "mature" supersport rider. A little less intense, with a little more comfort. The thing is, that was the market the Katanas sat in. The engine was an orphan also. While the Kats had the older GSXR based oil cooled engine, and the GSXRs had their own water cooled updates, the RF mill was different from both. Mostly in the head. The GSXR mills, up to that point {water or oil}, were "side draft" heads{intake orientation}. The RF had the more modern "down draft" head. The GSXR didn't get a down draft head until the 96 model. I remember looking at the sales brochure for the 96 GSXR, wondering if the 750 engine was RF based, because of the down draft. No, the gixxer was its' own. The first and easiest way to tell, was the cam chain location. The RF's chain was in the center, where as the gixxer was on the side. There are a host of other differences too, but I don't have them handy. I think the bike didn't sell well enough for Suzuki to justify keeping it in production. It had to compete against all of the wonderful supersports, and its' own relatives, the Katanas. Not quite enough to go against the hot rods, and probably just a little more costly than the Katanas. Too bad. There were a couple of dudes who took the 900 mill, hot rodded them, and stuffed them into the 96 generation gixxer chassis for some Formula USA stuff. I read that they went pretty well.
To find aftermarket stuff for that bike will be trying at times. If you are creative, ask lots of questions and use the search features on different sites you may be able to cross reference a good handful of common Suzuki parts.
I hope you enjoy it.
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