Hi fellas,

I've been a member of a few cafe forums, and have been given links to this site - so I thought I'd introduce my project.

It's a 450....is that allowed here 

Anyway, this is what I started with:















Yep - a bit of neglect there..

Anyway, fast forward a bit and I'm pretty much at this point:





The wheels are off a Yamaha FZR250 (not a good choice - but I already had them in the shed), the seat is a Ducati SS copy, and the tank is a 81 GS650 (4 cyl). Everything....and I mean EVERYTHING had to be heavily modified to fit 

Then I got the rearsets mounted (FZR250 again):







So now I have the whole thing in pieces (again) because I needed to weld in a plate under the rear hoop to hold all the electrics. No more pics at this stage, but I will get "back into it" soon....promise 

Cheers......

I would recognize that bike anywhere (obviously)!

Looks great Hillsy!

Sweet build! I'd like to do one eventually.

why are the fork legs on backwards?
wish I had the FZR250.....
the original 555cc kit was for the GS400-450 so just bore away
wiseco had it listed for a 79ish GS450 back in the early 90's

Quotewhy are the fork legs on backwards?

good point.  may want to turn those around so you can mount some time of fork brace.

The fork legs are on backwards to allow the RHS caliper to be mounted on a LHS fork.......the forks and triples are from a GSX250F, the wheels and caliper are FZR250, the steering stem is GS450.....It's a long story......don't worry - I have a plan 

This is a fun project to witness, thanks for sharing.

Since I'm a little clueless about GS history, could someone tell me is a GS450 is virtually the same as a GS500, with a slightly smaller displacement?

Similarly, prior to the GS500E, there was a model with a tubular frame and older style rear suspension, sort of like this 450, correct?

http://www.suzukicycles.org/All-Suzuki/all_suzuki_models.html

That link has the history of the first gs500's. The 450's have the same bottom end to my knowledge (and a better crank from what I hear), but the headers point out at an angle from the motor.

Great site. I had no idea there were so many GS flavors. I assume a lot of these were for non-American markets?