1978 suzuki gs1000

my half way point, in my attempt to transform my gs1000 into a cafe racer.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• suzuki
• gsx
• gsxr
• gs
• 1000
• gs1000
• cafe
• caferacer

[setablazebyyou]

which parts did you use to convert it, the seat, tail, tank, suspension, exhaust etc? thanks for any help?

[voodoochikin04]

i made my own seat pan and seat, i cut off the back section of the tail and welded a new mounting plate for the tail light section. exhaust is stock, but cut off right at the first baffle plate. tank is stock, suspension is stock. handle bars are from a 76 kawa enduro, and shortened by 4 inches. the only thing i purchased to make it what it is now, was the mold resistant foam and pleather from hobby lobby. thanks for all the comments. :)

[Kornball426]

You should put on some clubman bars, or clip ons... And a smaller set of gauges and call it done. A half fairing might look nice too, but not needed haha. Sick bike dude.

[voodoochikin04]

i like my motocross bars, i dont like the half fairings, the gauges are ok for me :). thanks for the comment, i probably wont do anymore changes to it.

[MadKirks]

Nice hard arse look and sound.

[voodoochikin04]

yea i like it, my 95 yzf600 will take it after about 80mph.. but the old suzuki can top out the speedo, not sure how accurate the 140mph speedo is.. lol.. thanks for the comment.

[talihusky]

yes thats fucking awsome nice

[mako7828]

Nice work

[GavinS1965]

@McKloogz Who care?Looks alot better like that.

[progger2112]

Nice job, especially seat/tail, great to see one again. I bought one new in '78 to follow the GS 750 I'd bought the year before; added Weisco big bore kit, Yosh cams and pipe & drag bars. Very fast bike in it's day. At age 58, riding a modded ZX-14 today. Thanks for posting. Have fun!

[geonerd]

Nice!

[KapteinOpel]

@McKloogz It should be worth the same as a Kawasaki Z1900/1000 from around the same year. A "Skunk"gas tank just like this bike has was sold on ebay recently for $600... In Norway bikes like these go for 10-15k and more. These are special interest bikes like early CB750, CBX1000, Z1900, H2750, GS750&1000. The latter ones are often unrestored and fetch lower prices, but the other ones have similar prices unrestored so they should fetch the same when restored. Newer shafties are much cheaper.

[McKloogz]

@KapteinOpel Ok $2800

[KapteinOpel]

@McKloogz Not the 78 model...

[McKloogz]

@KapteinOpel at the most $2,000

[ybot1983]

sweet

[JescSol]

wow. ai tempi era un mostro di moto immagino

[sarmiento2008]

I really REALLY love the bike man.. great job!! sounds good.

but i can't help but say that the enduro bars look a little out of place (personal opinion)