Project Cooley Beast

[salty_monk]

My standard Yosh pipe has more clearance as stock than a Vance & Hines... Never had a problem with it. Can't fit centrestand though & it needs to be removed to do any work on the bike.....

I use a swingarm stand at the back for changing wheel etc.

[hampshirehog]

Plus one on those rear shocks. Being upside down gives an impression of light / fragile etc and it works very well in my book.

[renobruce]

Brake calipers are now rebuilt and painted with caliper paint. I'm using calipers from an '83 GS1100E

[renobruce]

The body parts are finished. Thanks, Larry!!

[renobruce]

I went with a GS1100E fender:

[chandler]

wow that is awesome looks fantastic

[jwhelan65]

Absolutely luv it! You are about to join the "Ed" club..

Really looks great Bruce!

[russr33]

My standard Yosh pipe has more clearance as stock than a Vance & Hines... Never had a problem with it. Can't fit centrestand though & it needs to be removed to do any work on the bike.....

I use a swingarm stand at the back for changing wheel etc.

Yeah I never had any clearance issues; just never really liked the aesthetics of it.

[hampshirehog]

I went with a GS1100E fender:

And I was trying to figure out why that didn't look like an S mudguard....Sorry, I only woke up 12 hours ago.

Larry appears to have painted trees all over your bodywork..........nice job.

[Suzuki mad]

Thats an awsome paint job. Wish he could go my GS1000SN but shipping all the parts from the Uk to do just isn't an option.

[renobruce]

Finally got the cams degreed. 105.5 intake, 107 exhaust. Tomorrow I'll button up the motor, finish installing the dyna 2000 and coils, install the instrument cluster/headlight/signals, put on the wheels and install the brakes. Oh, and finish painting the VM33's so I can install them Saturday. I plan on firing it up Sunday.

[7981GS]

I'll grab GS Express and the 3 of us can go for some "break in" miles, K?
Great idea to use the 1100E front fender/rims and 1150 rotors also, eh?
We ride south past Carson City all of the time. PM sent for directions.

Daniel

[SqDancerLynn1]

Suzuki never dreamed of it looking that good !!!

[GSexpress]

I'll grab GS Express and the 3 of us can go for some "break in" miles, K?
Great idea to use the 1100E front fender/rims and 1150 rotors also, eh?
We ride south past Carson City all of the time. PM sent for directions.

Daniel

Don't be grabbing me Bubba!

Ask me nicely.


Yeah, ya gotta break er' in tho.

[Rudeman]

Yeah I never had any clearance issues; just never really liked the aesthetics of it.

I had a black standard Yosh header and I used to scrape the crap out of it in RT handers. I sold it for $100 and got a chrome race header. No more clearance problems. Regarding the center stand issue; we used our center stands as work stands. We left the mounting bolts in the frame bosses and used them (only need 1 of them in most cases) to temporarily reattach it for servicing our bikes. It was a P-I-T-A having to remove the head pipes to change oil but we used it as an opportunity to thoroughly clean our pipes and otherwise inaccessible parts of the bike. You can use it to change the rear tire without removing the head pipes.