I agree with that choice...lol
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What are the most beautiful GS models? Aesthetic questions
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I agree with that choice...lol
Garryzorro
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...So my winner is the 450S, prefer in black. Only seat/tail section Suzuki ever got right IMO.
You're not wrong; those 450s were distinctive and stunning. A 450 in decent shape really does turn heads.
I'll also agree the G shafties were quite handsome, and not just because I'm biased. Once in a while I'll remove the rear rack and trunk from mine temporarily and end up looking at it an awful, awful lot. I like my Cosmos Blue, but the versions in black with gold accents were especially good-looking. They just looked a lot more expensive than they were, if that makes sense.
I think the aluminum peg plates and two-tone paint on the '82+ models really raised things a notch. The tanks, tails, and side covers are also a little different and more pleasing.
Also, many of the color schemes available outside the US were amazing.
This shot of my bike is seriously crapped up with the rear rack bearing a floppy black bag, and a hideous inflatable vinyl seat cover. But subtract that, and it gets a lot better looking. Just not nearly as usable.
There's a damn pretty bike under all this crap... this may be the cleanest it's ever looked:
Garryzorro
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At least one person agrees with me on that GS450S. In the summer of '81 my step-brother went down to Houma, Louisiana (about 45 minutes Southeast of Thibodeaux, Louisiana, to quote Jerry Reed's Amos Moses) to work on an oil rig. He convinced me to go, to make some college money. Most of our $ went toward killing brain cells, but he got a black GS450S and it scared him - he'd never ridden. But I sure had, and that bike was mine - along with a Toyota Corolla that had a dangerously shaky pitman arm and no starter, so I had to run/bump start it alone - quite a good workout!
Anyway, I was struck by how good that bike was, because I had ridden hand-me-downs, Honda 350s, Yamaha DT 2-strokes, and the like. It hustled, handled, and stopped. Most Suzukis, especially the 'lunchbox' GS1100Es shafties, though handsome, look way too chunky for my impeccable taste, ha! To me the GS450S looked like a 4/5-scale R90S, definitely a Euro look. Americans don't tend to like that (hello buckhorn bars...) - but I do. Just too big for it, unfortunately.
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Agreed as well. The 450 E ans S bikes are cool looking rides. The later ones look like baby 82-3 GS 1100 bikes. Cool also
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