Question about 1st Gen Gsxr suspension?

[posplayr]

Slabbie cockpit with USD forks and stock clocks. This is a well established and much sought after conversion for the Slabbie. It is the 91-92 GSXR 750 forks that are preferred for the conversion.

[Nessism]

Well guys it won't really be a parts bike as I beleive I will keep it and replace the components that I take off with more modern parts. I have been looking for a parts bike or pieces for awhile but like Rudy was saying everything I looked at was priced like gold bricks. At least if the GS "borrows" some parts for awhile I could always return them to the bike.

Cheers
Paul

I still don’t get it Paul. If you want a GSXR with modern suspension, just buy one. That first gen GSXR is a rare gem and more valuable the way it is. I say leave it alone, or sell it to Rudy, and find a late model GSXR parts bike to steal the suspension off of.

[posplayr]

I still don’t get it Paul. If you want a GSXR with modern suspension, just buy one. That first gen GSXR is a rare gem and more valuable the way it is. I say leave it alone, or sell it to Rudy, and find a late model GSXR parts bike to steal the suspension off of.

Ed,
Yea the 1st gen GSXR'ers are a rare gem but the people that want them ususally dont have any money . If they are perfect then there is a collector somewhere but otherwise and unfortunately not a whole lot of demand.
Jim

[rudy]

I say leave it alone, or sell it to Rudy

YEA YEA!!!!! WOOOOOOO!!!!!! SLABBIE SLABBIE SLABBIE!!!!!!!!

[pauly]

Your right Posplayr.
The guy I bought the bike from said I just caught it in time as he was going to keep the bike because of all the crazy low ball offers he was getting. He had guys come look at the bike, hear it run and still offer him an insulting amount for it.

Cheers
Paul

[pauly]

This might be a silly question but where does the term "slabbie" come from?

[posplayr]

This might be a silly question but where does the term "slabbie" come from?

I'm pretty sure it comes from the relatively large skirts of plastic under the seat. Slabbie is short for Slabside. I'm pretty sure Suzuki never applied that moniker.

Some people think the slabside plastic, is awkward looking and other have swapped out the tail sections in an attempt to remove the large plastic areas. Purest would never dream of that. I have chosen to retain the style, but trim down the full length of the skirts for my street fighter.

[salty_monk]

I'm all for a project bike but it seems a shame to chop one up that nice.... My project was a barely running dented tanked slack suspension piece of crap & the added parts were bought already parted.

You can easily get the parts you need without chopping that one up.... I know from experience that all that first gen stuff is out there for sale. Forks & triples are about $70 - $100. The 17" wheels are easier to find than the 18" & would work just as well, I have a set, Pos has a set - or just leave that GSXR alone & put the USD setup on the GS... Using the stock swinger parts are less than $400.

Don't kid yourself that you can put it back - you'll need to mess with the triples etc to get it to work.

Dan

[posplayr]

I'm all for a project bike but it seems a shame to chop one up that nice.... My project was a barely running dented tanked slack suspension piece of crap & the added parts were bought already parted.

You can easily get the parts you need without chopping that one up.... I know from experience that all that first gen stuff is out there for sale. Forks & triples are about $70 - $100. The 17" wheels are easier to find than the 18" & would work just as well, I have a set, Pos has a set - or just leave that GSXR alone & put the USD setup on the GS... Using the stock swinger parts are less than $400.

Don't kid yourself that you can put it back - you'll need to mess with the triples etc to get it to work.

Dan

You guys keep it up and no one will ever put a picture of their GSXR up again

[salty_monk]

You will....

[rudy]

You guys keep it up and no one will ever put a picture of their GSXR up again

When I get one I'll post a new picture up every day!!!

[rudy]

Some people think the slabside plastic, is awkward looking and other have swapped out the tail sections in an attempt to remove the large plastic areas. Purest would never dream of that.

I think they're beautiful! Different from everything else. Saw a nice blue/white stock one at a local coffee shop this summer, I nearly fell over from excitement!

[posplayr]

Rudy,
I went on a ride with these SoCal guys a couple of weeks ago. Most had 2nd gen Oilers, but the one guy that was the star had an 1st Gen Limited.
Pics and story here.

http://www.gixxer.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4044881&postcount=25

Jim

P.S. of course the Limited has the skirts factory trimmed.

[tone]

As most of you know i really dont do standard bikes so this may surprise some of you

DONT YOU DARE HACK UP THAT SLABBY pauly !

it would be a criminal shame there's not that many around in that condition now as most have been crashed bashed or bodged into oblivion

Yes i'm responsible for my fair share but even i wouldnt mess with that one apart from finding a nice stock exhaust for it & running in on sunny days







s**t i'm turning into an belstaff wearing rivet counter

[tone]

While i think

jim nailed it, the slabby name came from the "slabside" rear seat panels, nothing suzuki ever thought of just a quick & easy way of explaining the differance between the g,h,j models & the later K onwards "slingshot" models

& i'm giving no more info on this thread if it relates to destroying a perfectly good, classic, mold breaking gsxr1100