you may wanna check with your insurance company first. frame mods are the fastest way to VOID your insureance real fast.  dont cut it its a really bad idea your gs is one of the best looking and if you hack it well it will just look like a streetfighter when your done with the tail all hacked up. just me 2 cents

Quote from: tt_four on October 12, 2009, 07:25:24 PM
Hmm, now that I look at it more with your idea of exposing the real wheel more.... cutting that lower brace is going to expose the empty space in front of the wheel, and the more of a gap you put in front of the wheel, the closer the tail is going to look to the wheel. Right now it's still in an even upward angle. If you reduce that angle on the subframe it's going to look like the tail is pointing down. If you really want to put a gap there, I'd cut the bottom part of the subframe, heat the top and bend it upward to an angle you like, then weld an extension into the bottom bar on the subframe, so you're actually lifting the angle of the whole tail.

ingenius..that sounds like a better plan. i'm also thinking of this after looking a the the custom fighters site. I can cut the bottom subframe, raise the top subframe so the tail raise up more and run tie rods for support as indicated in the pic.





So something like this...

Yea that looks sweet Seamax, i dont know why that guy doesnt like the streetfighter look, unless hes one of those people who like classic stuff, the way it was made, whici is fine, i like classic looks too, but the way your bike looks riight now doesnt look like a GS.

But if you do raise the tail dont do it too much. It looks really dumb when the tail looks like a boner.



http://www.customfighters.com/fotm/09sept/imgp1311large.jpg

EXAMPLE OF DUMB LOOKING REAR END ^^^