UPGRADES AND MODS

[vinny]

£1k to spend on my GS?
Simple, buy a DRZ 

Seriously though, id probably rebuild and repaint the whole bike. Myself. With the following mods:
Re-bore and use slightly larger pistons, to get a true 500cc
Fit FI from some newer bike (or at least try to)
Different front wheel with dual discs
Wider rear wheel
Upgraded suspension
Full stainless exhaust
Figure some better way that the stock petcock
Powdercoated frame, wheels, swingarm, bottom half of shocks and other misc parts
Plastics and tank repainted in a deep (Slightly glittery) purple
New clocks - one piece
And everything else either replaced or cleaned and painted

Could probably do all that for under £1K.. maybe

[DrewBarrett]

I'd buy cowlings, Chrome everything up a bit, wide tire in the back, stretch it a little maybe (im tall), and then some exhaust. Powder coat anything that i could. lol

[knowles]

Crap, i have all ready put that into mine, mostly i do it just because i like working on projects. (good thing I'm going to school for mech) i got to put about $600 or so in it and be done then regular mantience.

I want a different front end (probably never do it) so just springs
new tire, and steering bearings,
powder coated frame, pro paint job
make new rear sets
digital speedo
might rebuild total engine- might sub this out just because i know a guy that does this and is very good at it and see if he would show me some stuff.

thats about it so that would be about $600-1,000 i could have bought a Ducati if i would have put all that and the other stuff i have bought towards a bike that i wouldn't do anything to.

[craigs449]

As stated above, swap fork springs for Sonic springs for your weight and then fit an R6 shock.  I just did the shock swap this morning and did the fork springs a few weeks back......HUGE DIFFERENCE!!!!!! Also, refresh the brake fluid, mine was 10 yrs old and the stuff that came out of the front caliper looked like flat Pepsi!