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Hey folks, I recently picked up an 83 1100. I'm wanting to get some more ground clearance. Been talkin to Frank at Frank's forks about some 2" over tubes. I'm curious if an 18" rear wheel was ever made. I'd like to run an 18 front and rear, I've seen an 18 for the front not the rear. Just curious any help is greatly appreciated.
 
Nice! I was lookin through Ebay trying to find an 18 rear. Guess I didn't look hard enough. Thanks. Do you know if that would be a plug n play or is something different on the 1100? I always like the look of the stars. My wife had a gs 450 with those mags...slick lookin.
 
Nvmessner said:
Nice! I was lookin through Ebay trying to find an 18 rear. Guess I didn't look hard enough. Thanks. Do you know if that would be a plug n play or is something different on the 1100? I always like the look of the stars. My wife had a gs 450 with those mags...slick lookin.
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Using the link I provided, it shows that the spacers are the same part numbers on both bikes, so I would say yes, it should be a plug and play.
The 78 750 https://www.suzukipartshouse.com/oemparts/a/suz/50d3fed8f8700230d8b4dce3/rear-wheel-gs750ec
The 83 1100 https://www.suzukipartshouse.com/oemparts/a/suz/50d4041bf8700230d8b4ec91/rear-wheel-model-d

Oh yeah, welcome to the forum. Here is a link that will give you more info than you will ever need and also a manual you can download. http://members.dslextreme.com/users/bikecliff/
 
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Rob S. said:
He never said it was an "E". We can only hope.

I had 6" over Frank's on my CB350 in the late '70's. Boy, were they tall!
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Good point, I only assumed E. I was thinking that G had a 16", but that was the GL. The G also had a 17" rear wheel.

What Rob is implying is that if you have a shaft drive 1100, your out of luck.
 
Welcome to the site, nv.
Just curious, what are you doing that you need more ground clearance. Track days?
A suspension upgrade might be the ticket instead.
 
Yes it is an E sorry. I appreciate the help. I live up where there are a good amount of fire roads and I have a zrx1200r for the the main road. I was wantin to build kind of a big boy tracker. I see a lot of 17 wheel swap. I just thought it would be neat to have somethin a little different.
 
Forgive me, but what is a fire road, in your part of the country? Around here they are dirt or gravel trails out thru the woods, more for dirt bikes, Jeeps, &. trucks, certainly nothing for a 500lb. 1100cc motorcycle, even with an 18" rear wheel.
 
Haha! That's exactly what they are. The plan is a bike I can Cruise everywhere. We get a lot of traffic here in the big bear SoCal area. So it's nice to do a run through the twisties, bit have the options to take a fire road back and around traffic.
 
Haha! That's exactly what they are. The plan is a bike I can Cruise everywhere. We get a lot of traffic here in the big bear SoCal area. So it's nice to do a run through the twisties, bit have the options to take a fire road back and around traffic.
 
I used to use my Triumph T100 on fire roads and it is up there in weight. Sometimes it is how the weight sits. I always felt comfortable standing on the pegs when needed but I stayed mostly to graded gravel roads.

I have thought about making a scrambler inspired GS but it might just be for show. The gearing and engine doesnt have the same gruntiness that the Bonny had which made it a bit more suitable on loose stuff or climbing over small berms
 
Heck yeah! It's just a fun bike. I was trying to figure out if any other bikes that had 37mm fork tubes would be interchangeable....try and find some from a bike that had longer tubes instead of getting custom lengthened ones.
 
Nvmessner said:
Heck yeah! It's just a fun bike. I was trying to figure out if any other bikes that had 37mm fork tubes would be interchangeable....try and find some from a bike that had longer tubes instead of getting custom lengthened ones.
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The GS850G / GS1000G forks are nearly an inch longer than the GS1000 chainy bikes, as I found. Both 37mm. Might not be long enough though.
A good place to look for swap lists is over at www.dotheton.com you'll find lists of interchangeable steering heads, forks, etc and necessary sizes for comparison.
 
Good to know Grimly. Thanks. I've come across some of those lists....I think. That's something I was hoping for. Dont know if any bikes came with that much longer of tubes from the factory. The gs g forks is good info.
 
Fire Roads?

Fire Roads?

Come live in NY City!

Fire Roads? I read about them in books once. :p
 
Boriqua said:
I used to use my Triumph T100 on fire roads and it is up there in weight. Sometimes it is how the weight sits. I always felt comfortable standing on the pegs when needed but I stayed mostly to graded gravel roads.

I have thought about making a scrambler inspired GS but it might just be for show. The gearing and engine doesnt have the same gruntiness that the Bonny had which made it a bit more suitable on loose stuff or climbing over small berms
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Lot of back country dirt roads around here. Back in the 90's I built a RM/GS trail bike. RM370 motocrosser chassis with a GS400 twin engine. Nice suspension - for the era - quite light and I'd tweaked the 400 a bit so it went well. I'd owned a Honda SL350 and liked the response of a twin on smooth fast dirt roads.
Suzuki could have built a nice fourstroke twin trail bike without much effort but of course were doing well selling two strokes and the DR series.
 
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