05-24-2012, 08:03 PM
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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. Login or Register to Remove Ads |
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05-24-2012, 10:18 PM
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Re: I just Bought a 2006 Suzuki Gz250
Congrats on your new bike, and welcome to the forum from Ohio!
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05-24-2012, 10:44 PM
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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?
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05-24-2012, 11:00 PM
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Re: I just Bought a 2006 Suzuki Gz250
What up and welcome.
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05-25-2012, 12:49 AM
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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.
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05-25-2012, 08:19 AM
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Re: I just Bought a 2006 Suzuki Gz250
Welcome to the family!!
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05-25-2012, 08:20 AM
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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!!
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05-25-2012, 01:04 PM
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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.
 1950's Royal Enfield  This is an example of a classic cafe racer form...note the straight frame and peg positions of a standard motorcycle. 
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05-26-2012, 12:45 PM
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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! |
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