biggiesmalls
Been Around the Block
Hey everyone,
New here and thought I'd start up my own build thread. Bought my first bike about a week ago - a 1987 Suzuki GS450L. The previous owner had laid it down and I was able to talk him down on the price based on some things that needed immediately replaced like the broken gauges.
I've got some big plans for her that are going to be what I'd call cafe-inspired but I started the thread here because its certainly more of the direction I'll be taking the bike. As soon as I get a spare minute she's getting a new speedo and new drag bars. After that matching levers and new grips, and hopefully new signals soon after. Much more is gunna happen this winter when she'll be laid up in my buddy's garage; painting, cleaning, some carb/header work. Currently she's dirty as all hell and seems to have a small leak that I'd like to get to the bottom of. She does run pretty well, however, with no noticeable performance problems as of yet.
One thing I'd love some words of advice on from any of the other GS owners is electrical. There's wires running in all sorts of places and I'd like to really slim things down. Also probably going to end up with LED turn signals soon.
Thanks everybody! Updates may be slow but I'll be keeping it up when I can.
New here and thought I'd start up my own build thread. Bought my first bike about a week ago - a 1987 Suzuki GS450L. The previous owner had laid it down and I was able to talk him down on the price based on some things that needed immediately replaced like the broken gauges.
I've got some big plans for her that are going to be what I'd call cafe-inspired but I started the thread here because its certainly more of the direction I'll be taking the bike. As soon as I get a spare minute she's getting a new speedo and new drag bars. After that matching levers and new grips, and hopefully new signals soon after. Much more is gunna happen this winter when she'll be laid up in my buddy's garage; painting, cleaning, some carb/header work. Currently she's dirty as all hell and seems to have a small leak that I'd like to get to the bottom of. She does run pretty well, however, with no noticeable performance problems as of yet.
One thing I'd love some words of advice on from any of the other GS owners is electrical. There's wires running in all sorts of places and I'd like to really slim things down. Also probably going to end up with LED turn signals soon.
Thanks everybody! Updates may be slow but I'll be keeping it up when I can.