Post a picture of your custom GS

[Bad Kaw]

Russ,
Your bike collection is verrrrrry nice!

hjfisk,
I like the direction you are going with your 1100...is that a gsxr front end?

 

[steve murdoch]

Not mine.
A bike i saw a couple weeks ago at the vintage races at Mosport. I forgot to get the owners name. It was the first time on the track for the bike in 20 years.
Love the Astralite wheels.

 

[steve murdoch]

Yes i am too stupid to get them both in the same post.

 

[Guest]

The custom can from both the '78 and the Cooley were made by a local Houston company called Jemco Exhausts. They have been making exhausts for around 30 years.

They did a pretty good job...I love the look of the pipe on the red 1000, in particular. By coincidence, I checked out a Jemco system for a Kawasaki KZ a few weeks ago. I had wheeled my bike out to the street, and came in to put on my gear when a guy stopped his pick-up & got out to check out the bike. When I went out, he asked if I was interested in selling it & I told him it wasn't for sale. Turns out he has 7 classic Kawa KZ/Z bikes, some very nice & the others in various stages of restoration, according to pics he showed me on his i-phone. Anyways, he pulled out a newly acquired Jemco Kawa system from the bed of his pick-up, and also a Wolf, similar to the one on my bike, that he was taking to get ceramic coated. Seemed disappointed, that I had not heard of Jemco.
Dude left me his card (apparently in the steel supply business), and asked me to call him first, if I ever wanted to sell...seems he would like to add my Suzuki to his Kawasaki stable.:-&
It was only after he left, and I rode away, that I realized that neither of us had ever mentioned a price....

 

[russr33]

Love the Astralite wheels.

You and me both Steve. I would kill for a set of Astralites......

 

[Bad Kaw]

I love this thread!

-KR

 

[exploited789]

Not really custom but shes got a new tank (the one in the background is the old one), now I just gotta change the seat, side covers and tail section lol. Plus alot of cleaning but thats given.

 

[Greg B]

You and me both Steve. I would kill for a set of Astralites......

Ditto!!!!!!!!

 

[moochx5]

This is my gs 750 still got lots of work to do but she is getting there.

 

[midnightcafe]

This is my gs 750 still got lots of work to do but she is getting there.

Hardtail AND clipons? hmm, Like to see where that's going, Mooch- got a build thread?

 

[midnightcafe]

Here's my '79 GS750L. YES, it is an L model, say what you want about it but I think I did a good job de-L'ing it for a substantial riding improvement-superbike bars, one off seat and rearset fabrication, rejetted to 125 main's, APE filters, MAC 4-1 exhaust. Still under 9k miles

^That's me after a 180 mile ride from school in Schenectady, NY back home at Medfield, MA. The new 530 sprockets are geared more for acceleration and resulted in much more vibration at highway speeds. Not to mention the MDI shocks are like struts and the seat I fabricated I haven't finished... it only has neoprene foam which is okay for riding around town but feels like concrete after an hour on the road. I couldn't feel my A$$ for days!
Edit: some before pictures for comparison...

 

[Dave8338]

AWESOME looking bike, Midnight! :clap:

Only thing that I would change...put the L'bars back on!

Nice work!

 

[ChicagoBob]

Great job! Love the engine finishes and the rearsets.

 

[saltcitytattoo]

haha just think of the aerodynamic drag on a 1/4 mile, probably lucky to get a 30 second ET

i had a 1/4 mile shoot out with a ninja 750 and yes i barley beet him he was faster off the line but i caught him and passed him by a tire not bad for having so much aerodynamic drag

 

[Chris Bohane]

GS850 Trike

GS850 Trike

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GS850 Trike

 

[eddie1984]

im still workin on it its a 81gs650 gl i paid 100$ for it sat for 15 years and fired right up of me ... sucide shifter and all....

 

[Tim Tom]

Cool trike. Any chance of some more shots on that under tail exhaust? Not seen that before on a GS.

 

[midnightcafe]

Chris, that trike is interesting! Can you make a build thread about it? I'd love to hear how you set it up. -Emmet

 

[Chris Bohane]

Chris, that trike is interesting! Can you make a build thread about it? I'd love to hear how you set it up. -Emmet

I've got loads of pictures, send me your email address and I can send you pics of the bits that you are interested in.

Regards,
Chris

 

[Bad Kaw]

Exploited789: You may not have a lot of heavy mods, but that's a pretty well done theme. Nice work.
Midnightcafe: THAT is an amazing transformation! There oughta be some reward for turning that bike into THAT bike! Nicely done, sir ... very nicely done!
-KR