GS450 Build (from around the internetz)

[Guest]

Found this beauty, seems to have more info on the lady than the bike, but still pretty cool.

http://www.returnofthecaferacers.com/2012/10/suzuki-gs450-cafe-racer.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheReturnOfTheCafeRacers+%28The+Return+of+the+Cafe+Racers%29

Figured appearance was a fitting place for this.

[pete]

Man I gotta say I'm so over cafe's... maybe I've be on DTT too long?

Nicely executed and I do love the paint scheme, but it's just like every other one out there... and no way would I ride it with those tyres!

Ok, rant over

[loud et]

These "photo opp" bikes **** me off. All image. That chick probably has put 400 miles on that thing. She is "quite the cafe enthusiast"
....aka, she thinks they look cool and are soooo in right now. Image based bull****t.
I want to spit in her face, right after the guy who is pushing his lame bike. Its probably the guys girlfriend.

Glad he made all that extra power for her. Ooh, look at me, i shortened the exhaust, i am a cafe expert!
Gag.
Dont get me wrong, the bikes look cool, but the poser/image culture I despise.
Just like the new hot rod culture. Oh, i got some cherries tattoed on my neck, ohh, let me dress up like a pinup girl from the forties! I am so cool! Go slick your hair back Johnny, you are 24!.......

Yeah, i will shut up now.

[pete]

These "photo opp" bikes **** me off. All image. That chick probably has put 400 miles on that thing. She is "quite the cafe enthusiast"
....aka, she thinks they look cool and are soooo in right now. Image based bull****t.
I want to spit in her face, right after the guy who is pushing his lame bike. Its probably the guys girlfriend.

Glad he made all that extra power for her. Ooh, look at me, i shortened the exhaust, i am a cafe expert!
Gag.
Dont get me wrong, the bikes look cool, but the poser/image culture I despise.
Just like the new hot rod culture. Oh, i got some cherries tattoed on my neck, ohh, let me dress up like a pinup girl from the forties! I am so cool! Go slick your hair back Johnny, you are 24!.......

Yeah, i will shut up now.

Hahahahahahaahaha classic... I restrained myself from saying something like that

[loud et]

Hahahahahahaahaha classic... I restrained myself from saying something like that

I guess sometimes we need to vent, lol.
From a psychological point of view I am just jealous and just want the bike and the hott chick. ha ha
I was just talking trash....I am no one special.
But you know what I am saying about that image crap

[pete]

Well what can I say? Haha... if someone gave me the bike I'd swap the tyres for something usable and ride the hell out of it

[jeffasaurus2]

I totally get it. DTT seems to be a factory that pumps out the same generic cafe on the same Honda base. I just thought it was cool to see a Suzuki GS featured, well done ones seem to be few and far between.

And I gotta say, I love my 450! While I wouldn't be opposed to getting a bigger displacement I don't think I'd ever get rid of the 450.

[tkent02]

I'd hit it. The bike or the skinny chick.

Don't care much for the photographer.

[jfman]

Good example of how little work is needed to turn a GS into a cafe on the cheap.

[pete]

I'd never voluntarily get rid of my 450 either... it's just way too much fun

Mind you I still want my Kat

[loud et]

I like the 450's also. Small but stylish.
Whatever happened to that chick (I think it was) that had the story about getting the 450 from the neighbor. He was an old guy and had a bunch of bikes in the backyard and she described his house/kitchen as a mini machine shop. SHe got it for free if I recall.
It was a cool story but never saw any follow up from her?

oldschool- I would spit in her face AND SHE WOULD LIKE IT! ha ha

[pete]

I like the 450's also. Small but stylish.
Whatever happened to that chick (I think it was) that had the story about getting the 450 from the neighbor. He was an old guy and had a bunch of bikes in the backyard and she described his house/kitchen as a mini machine shop. SHe got it for free if I recall.
It was a cool story but never saw any follow up from her?

oldschool- I would spit in her face AND SHE WOULD LIKE IT! ha ha

Pretty sure that was a guy actually... from memory he was here in Oz too but down south... no idea what happened though, didn't see to come back and post after the first lot...

[nikosg]

Good example of how a decent bike can turn a very average girl into a "goodlooking one"
(she still is fairly rank in my books) - but god forbid the bike community to pass judgement on a girl if she rides..... because they are all stunning apparently.

Kind of like the "cheerleader affect", separate her from the bike and you wouldnt look twice.. together, they produce an optical illusion.