I just Bought a 2006 Suzuki Gz250

[johnathandancer]

My name is Johnathan. And I am addicted to cafe racers. Like the title says i just bought a gz250.
It runs great and is a little rough on the paint, But with some hard work and modifactions i think it could make a great cafe style bike.
Im excited to join the forum and talk to other motorcycle gurus.

[Rionna]

Congrats on your new bike, and welcome to the forum from Ohio!

[mithuth]

Welcome, and congrats on the bike.

Rough paint or not, we all like pics. :)

Any plans to restore the paint, or just enjoy it as is?

[Rookie Rider]

What up and welcome.

[bpdchief]

Welcome to insanity

[Skunkhome]

Welcome to the site. The GZ makes a convincing bobber but I am yet to see a reasonably close conversion to a cafe racer. I look forward to seeing how you address the basic differences in frame geometry.

[blaine]

Welcome to the family!! :) :2tup:

[Rookie Rider]

Skunkhome, sounds like you need to go to the gz250's pics thread and scroll down on the first page to kevinj's cafe racer thread. Check that out!!

[Skunkhome]

I have seen that and though it is a good looking bike but I am sorry it is not by any shade of the imagination a cafe racer. It looks very much like a vintage pre-WWII Royal Enfield which predates the cafe racers by at lease 25years.

http://s4.postimage.org/1tueu7h5w/GZ250_Cafe.jpg (http://postimage.org/image/1tueu7h5w/)

1950's Royal Enfield
http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff369/skunkhome/a1e4c181.jpg

This is an example of a classic cafe racer form...note the straight frame and peg positions of a standard motorcycle.
http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff369/skunkhome/d6c5c099.jpg

[johnathandancer]

Well thanks for all your feed back i will be posting pics soon. And I have many ideas to help address the frame shape.

I will be posting pics soon!

[mole2]

Welcome to the forum from South Carolina. Ride safe.


:)