Gs550 Cafe Racer Bike

Any old bike needs a little love before you bust out the angle grinder.

Gs550 cafe racer bike. The idea here is building a motorcycle for a relaxed ride on your local back roads. I will ship the bike world wide at the expense of the buyer. The bike is a complete custom brat style build. I'm just pinning a bunch of bikes that i like.

See more ideas about cafe racer, racer, cafe. Today, we have a stunning gs850 cafe racer by sebastien joigne of mr. We installed new fenders, handlebars, bigger brakes plus a hand built seat with fabricated seat hoop. Purpose built moto’s first bike build.

Alan also fitted the calipers and master cylinder from a suzuki sv650, fed by venhill lines. If you're a fan of cafe racer motorcycles and style then you've come to the right place! We’ve been enjoying profiling some of the suzuki gs series customs coming out of various shops, starting with the gs550 tracker we recently featured. Today i want to give you some insight on how our gs 550 came to life.

The gs850 was introduced in 1979 to capture the touring market. With this post i'll try to inspire cafe racer enthusiast to start working on their own low budget cafe racer. But eastern spirit are pretty nonchalant about the work involved. This project is for you if you are looking for a 99% complete project that needs a.

Swallow customs, located in normandy. This cool looking blue suzuki gs550 cafe racer just screams classic, from its bum stopper seat to its vintage look half fairing. Café racers come in a lot of different setups and prices, from bikes under $1000 and even up to $60,000 (like the cx500 café racer from sacha lakic). Start date may 13, 2011;

This bike is not for you if you want to get on and ride. This bike is truly a work of machined art. Flo’s experience in the custom scene began in the 4 wheeled world building custom cars that adorned the covers of custom mags around europe. We all know that the cafe racer originated in britain—but these days, the bikes themselves are just as likely to be japanese.

1 of 3 go to page. See more ideas about cafe racer, racer, cafe. The gs750 big brother was a favorite with road testers, and the gs550 was no slouch either: It was built using an icon of 1970’s racing, a suzuki made famous by wes cooley when he won the ama superbike championship over two consecutive years, a 1979 gs1000.

While i was putting the story about their gs550 cafe racer together i happened across another great looking bike in their stable. See more ideas about cafe racer, suzuki, racer. We publish regular features on custom motorcycle builds, riding gear reviews, how to guides and event coverage from around the globe. Combining their skills the pair have built an impressive lineup of custom motorcycles together and this cafe racer style ’84 suzuki gs550e inline 4 is their latest project.

What i found was a tidy gs550 cafe racer with some sneaky performance upgrades that transform it from an average ride to a wild one… maybe in 1980 the suzuki gs550e’s 49bhp was enough for your average sassy suburbanite, but interstellar motors head honcho jody wegman (not pictured above) wanted a little extra. May 13, 2011 #1 s. 2006 return of the cafe racers is the world's premier cafe racer focused website. It’s a dangerous thing when i get bored.

Unfortunately, any gs still on the road these days is likely to be pretty tired, and so was. See more ideas about cafe racer, suzuki, motorcycle. Previous outcomes of my boredom over the past few years have resulted in taking a second job, quitting a job and heading overseas, tearing out rooms in my house to renovate, and starting a degree in engineering on the side. Mellow aims to focus on the production of cafe racer styled custom motorcycles and their first build, a ’79 suzuki gs550 paints a good picture of what the pairs capabilities are.

Have papers but license behind in previous owners name. Almost a cruiser to put in effortless miles on a perfect sunday. 1978 suzuki gs550 cafe racer.