I just Bought a 2006 Suzuki Gz250
 

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.

Re: I just Bought a 2006 Suzuki Gz250
 

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

Re: I just Bought a 2006 Suzuki Gz250
 

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?

Re: I just Bought a 2006 Suzuki Gz250
 

What up and welcome.

Re: I just Bought a 2006 Suzuki Gz250
 

Welcome to insanity

Re: I just Bought a 2006 Suzuki Gz250
 

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.

Re: I just Bought a 2006 Suzuki Gz250
 

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

Re: I just Bought a 2006 Suzuki Gz250
 

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!!

Re: I just Bought a 2006 Suzuki Gz250
 

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

1950's Royal Enfield
http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/...e/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/...e/d6c5c099.jpg

Re: I just Bought a 2006 Suzuki Gz250
 

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!