Gsx750 cafe/street bike

Okay.. So next up I shortened the muffler and tucked the exhaust pipe up under the bike a bit more to prevent those horror exhaust meets ground/ wheel meets sky incidents.


Add a bit of heat wrap....


Recycled spanner.

Chopped down the back end and shifted the tail section retaining hoop forward.


Next I cut angles on the frame rails and welded plate onto them so that they won't be visible when the tail section is fitted.


Pretty much chopped the seat pan in half, had to narrow the back end of it, remove the hump it has for back wheel clearance, and do a bit of rust repair. The finished seat still works just like the original did with the key hole in the tail to release it.

So then I took the rear guard off and sat the tail section in front of the rear hoop to see if it would look any good.



Look at the size and angle of the muffler!!! If you lean it over too much in corners the exhaust hits the ground and lifts the rear wheel. Soooo safe!

Hi, I own a 1980 gsx750, I'm located in Wellington, New Zealand. I have had the bike for about 8 years, when I first got it it was in a bit of a state. I did heaps of tidying up, painted the engine and wheels black and fitted a round headlight.

Although the bike was nice to ride it never really got me very excited, so a few months ago I decided to turn it into some sort of cafe/ street bike type thing. Initially I was gonna swap the tank for a 550 one and put a round tail section on, but after doing a bit of research I decided to retain the original tail and shorten the back end.

I have pretty much finished this build, but I'm gonna post up some pictures just in case anyone's interested.

Here is the bike after I first got it and gave it a tidy up and paint. It has a 4 into one cycle works exhaust.