Thinking custom... Any tips?

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Well I love to tinker with bikes, built myself a small race bike in the past from the ground up. I still haven't found my GZ250 yet (still hunting) but saw one at a parking lot this week. I was looking it over pretty good, if the owner would have came out they would have probably been scared...lol

Anyways, I am a big chopper/old school fan myself and already have some mods in mind when I find my GZ250.
One being a set of apes on this little bad boy, the problem is cables :??:
Anyone ever try and extend their cables, or find extended cables anywhere?
I know some people have to custom order cables, but I dont really know where to even start. Especially being from Canada.



The other bigger mod I was planning was maybe a custom pipe. Just don't want to hurt engine reliability or performance.
I was planning to purchase some simple drag baffles from ebay and putting them into some straight pipes, maybe have a dual setup (One pipe on each side).. That would be different! :rawk:
Then probably wrap the pipes with some header wrap.. get the old school look in there.

Other than that, just some simple mods like custom pegs, mirrors, paint...etc.
Really like this bike, and plan to keep it for a while since after me my girlfriend will eventually be the owner.

Any tips or comments?
Seen anything like this done?