Tending to a lecture on homotopy theory, the following question occured to me (is that a correct sentence?):
Given a pointed space $(X,x)$, is the UNREDUCED suspension map $S:\pi_k(X,x) \rightarrow \pi_{k+1}(SX, \ast)$ a group homomorphism?
Here unreduced suspension refers to $SX = X \times D^1 / \sim$, where $\sim$ collapses $X \times \{1\}$ and $X \times \{-1\}$ respectively, and the basepoint $\ast$ is (the one point set with element) $(x,0)$.
The statement is contained in every book on homotopy theory and almost trivial for the REDUCED suspension. For wellpointed spaces this of course surfices to answer my question, but it has resisted several similar 'general nonsense'-arguments in the general case.