Suzuki

Reader Ride! GSX 1100 From Croatia!


Ivan from Croatia writes in:


Hi,
I like to read your blog, it’s one of the first things I do each morning. Today I was surprised I
couldn’t open it, but later it was accessible. It’s great and you have a lot of great pics!
I’m sending you a photo of my work, so that you can see what we are doing through the winter, here
in Croatia.

Thank you Ivan!  Great bike!  I like the all the upgrades. 
We’re all good now folks.  Looks like just a google glitch although from what I’ve read a lot of bloggers got it MUCH worse.

Some Great Stuff from a brand new blog! Concept Bikes! A Ural Cafe Racer And Scrambler.


Great Imagination! I like it!  Someone send these to the folks at Ural! Here’s a link to the Blog. LOTS of potential here!  http://sketch-denis.blogspot.com/

Scrambler

Cafe Racer!

And here’s a bonus bike. a GSX1400 Cafe Racer Concept!

Reader Ride. A mercy purchase leads to a cool Cafe…


Keith Montgomery writes in:

To me a bike that doesn’t need to be worked on or”fixed up” is of no use.
I bought this one from a guy whose house burned and the bike was kinda sitting out in the drive for a long time. I was visiting my friends shop,  Monster M4 Suzuki one day and I stopped and left a card with my name on it for the owner to call  if it was for sale.
Sixty dollars later it was sittin in the garage. now what I thought. it was a total junk yard dog. There was decent compression so it HAD to run, right?
The points had been clubbed to death with a dull hatchet but what the heck.  Thanks to my cost+10 deal I have at a friends shop/salvage yard it was sparken.  About 40 dollars worth of cleaning supplies and a LARGE hand full of quarters fed into the car wash it was clean enough to actually start screwin with.  Tapered steering stem bearings, a doner battery, a seat unit and an OLD pair of clubmans I had been saving for 20 years, this and that I scrounged from my goodies and a few pieces from the salvage yard…
I stripped the tank and sealed it with the very effective Caswell tank sealer, fixed a leaky petcock, re-jetted the cleaned carbs to suit the pod filters, new tires/chain cog, a little front brake mod to get in the vicinity of actually slowing down, tilted the pipe up to my likink and cut the end of the cannister to reveal the”reverse megaphone” hidden inside and a bit of elbow grease…it actually rides quiet nice.  If i didn’t need the money I’d wanna keep it. I get attached to bikes that need love….

Thanks Much Keith! I hear ya on all of it.  I love to save lost causes.   Just my 2 cents here but you should hang on to it.  Get a pair of rearsets on there and a spend a little more time on the details and I bet you’d never want to sell it.  You’ve already done the hard parts. Go take a look at Wrenchmonkees. Those guys would have that thing in a private collection without too much effort. I’d think hard about it before letting it go.  Thanks again!

Reader Ride! A Killer Katana From Iceland!


I’m pretty sure this is our first Icelandic Bike! And what a great way to start! A lot of people didn’t/don’t like the styling of these bikes. I don’t know why exactly. Yes it was very different at the time and there hasn’t been much like it since but I personally wish there was more bold design like this from Japan.

Anyway, thank Much Duddi!
Here is my Katana 1982
1428cc Wiseco big bore and more and more…….
Duddi
Sober Riders MC
Iceland

Some Wednesday Wanderlust.


Some nice shots from over on ADV Rider.

Reader Ride. Custom Adventure Bike.


One more from Shannon Hayes.

This is one cool looking V-Strom.  Some really nice touches here.  Thanks!  (again).