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1980 GS550E - Cafe build

5.3K views 11 replies 9 participants last post by  rich46  
That thing looks pretty clean. I like the advice of using the early superbikes as inspiration and not the classic cafe racers and certainly not the current "cafe racer" unrideable crap that you see on exif each day.

Post up some pictures of bikes you want to emulate. In the mean time I'd fous on getting it running before tearing stuff apart. Get it titled if it doesn't already have one. Then once you know you have a useable bike you can get more serious about mods.

quarter fairing, solo tail, smaller front fender, lower bars, good to go. Well, of course there will also be new brake lines, tires, rebuilding the suspension and a bunch of other things, etc...