Suzuki GS 425 - Full Time lapse Cafe Racer Build
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2020
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I found this 1979 Suzuki GS 425 for sale on Facebook Marketplace. It was in very rough shape and pretty much neglected to the point that the bike would have been used for scrap metal if I had not come along and bought it! I removed everything from the bike and restored each part piece by piece. The frame and other components were powdercoated in a seafoam green and the tank and fenders were painted in Audi Nardo Grey.
Enjoy the video and let me know what you think of this restoration/custom build! #suzuki #caferacer #timelapse
Custom Cafe Racer Parts - www.caferacerwebshop.com?ref=baycity
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Front Fender - Modified Original Part
Shocks - Modified Original Part
Exhaust - Modified Original Part
Seat - Custom Made
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Thanks for watching! See below for a full parts list for this build! (Paid Links)
Custom Cafe Racer Parts - www.caferacerwebshop.com?ref=baycity
Handlebars - amzn.to/33kV7rW
Headlight - amzn.to/3j5g4NP
Headlight Mounts - amzn.to/2EpHL4X
In Frame LED Taillights - amzn.to/3gleAxa
Rear Brake Light/Turn Signals - amzn.to/2Qjk0y5
Front Turn Signals - amzn.to/35EEqII
Gold Chain - amzn.to/2QkhZlw
Engine harness/cable wrap - amzn.to/2BIpjTF
Engine Paint - amzn.to/34oWbxd
Exhaust Paint - amzn.to/2QfI0SG
Grips - amzn.to/3le6cU6
Push Button Switches - amzn.to/2Ysiy0T
Benchtop Buffer - amzn.to/2YHwKDB
Cotton Buffing Wheel - amzn.to/2QhFfAu
Polishing Compound - amzn.to/31iN8Mo
Mother's Aluminum Polish - amzn.to/2QhPBAh
Ceramic Coating - amzn.to/2EpzNc4
Pod Filters - amzn.to/3lanRfm
Crankcase Breather Filter - amzn.to/2Yo6YnG
Bar End Mirrors - amzn.to/3hlUog3
Speedometer - www.dimecitycycles.com/2-5-black-mini-mph-speedometer-w-black-face-led-indicator-lights-g.html
Front Fender - Modified Original Part
Shocks - Modified Original Part
Exhaust - Modified Original Part
Seat - Custom Made
what about the seat please?
@@wolfgangosse9226 seat was custom made to order
@@BayCityRestorations where can i order one please?
Did you modify the original carb or buy a new one?
Modified the original carbs
It's always nice to see someone with a good eye, to take something that is basically dead, and bring back to life better then before. Nice job.
Thanks man, I find the most enjoyment knowing this bike went from rotting on the side of a guys house to road worthy for many years to come!
First of all, you did a superb job painting and polishing the engine/drivetrain parts. I personally know how much time and dedication is spent to attend to all of those little details. In the end, the extra time you spent making the engine bay look brand new makes all the difference in the world when looked at by others, and yourself. Secondly, the white and teal colors work beautifully together. Good on ya, my friend!
Marcus
Dragon Moto
Thank you for the kind words! I find painting, polishing, and refreshing the engine one of the most important parts to make a build look amazing in the end!
こういうカスタムが❗有るんですね👍
外国の方々は、発想力が素晴らしいです
てかやっぱりGSですねぇ😁
しっかり吸い込んでますね😃
I must admit like a lot of people in the comments the color scheme is impeccable, but what really impressed me the most was the engine. 👍
Appreciate you watching the video! That engine was a labor of love!
Beautifully made custom, I adore this. Good job.
Cool color combo
Simply wonderful that you have given this bike a new lease of life.
Excellent job Gentlemen.
Thank you for sharing your passion.
Much appreciated! Thank you for watching!
I don't care much for motorcycles, but I can respect this build and the skill set it took to look that amazing. Just, wow.
Love, love, love that paint scheme. Nailed it bro!
Appreciate it brother!
@@BayCityRestorations nice choice, di you paint the frame or powder coated?
powdercoat
I'm so in love with this bike (actually the gs 400 but it's practically identical...) that I thought that even "impossible" color combos could not alter the "coolness" of this Suzuki...Boy how I was wrong...That pistacchio shat from a seagull color is unbearable....Neither on a Le Mans Porsche works, and that is a death sentence as far as color schemes are concerned. I felt the "poisonous" solvent curling the marvelous original crimson red paint burn as it had been on my very skin...Sir you broke my heart! To me now you are of the Azog kin: Defilers, besmircherers (???) eehm baddies to be coincise (that word doesn't imply minor surgeries).
beautiful resto & bike. love that exhaust snarl! you definitely took some unusual colors & made it absolutely work.
Thank you! 🙏🏻
BEST GS425 ever ! COOL FINISHES AND STYLE
Absolutely beautiful ! ..especially the polished alloy parts stand out from so many others - Chapeau !
That's a great looking bike now, it's really inspirational. nice work
Thank you! I really appreciate it!
Awesome build! Love it! The tank color scheme to match the bike is cool! I was cool to see you ride off on it!!!
Thank you! It was fun to do a color scheme that was outside of our normal style!
Such a beauty alive again.And this hypnotic sound...
I can't imagine how satisfying it would be to finish a build like that, I get pretty chuffed when I finish an airfix model
Adult legos!
Love the simplicity you chose with your lighting. I have a gs550 I’ll be doing the same setup on. Your paint got me thinking though. Definitely stands out!
Thank you! Wanted to do something different than all the other bike builds I’ve seen. I do admit the white wheels are hard to keep clean though 😅
Very nice,well done. My Dad bought the 425e new in 1979 I was 13 then. I soon started borrowing it. When I turned 18 he officially gave it to me. I rode it for another 5 years before selling it to get a bigger bike. It was an amazing bike and really reliable considering the punishment that I put it through.
You have done amazing work on this well done
That is awesome! I appreciate you watching the video!
i love your bench grinder
It puts in alot of work haha
Hey dude, guys like you really inspired me, I really hope that you will have many followers, cause you really deserve it, I hope that God still bless you dude, I enjoy your work.
Really appreciate the kind words man! Hopefully we can find success on RUclips to help fund future builds!
Beautiful
Thank you! Cheers!
What a thing of beautify, I love how u kept brown theme for the sit and motorcycle sleeves, so it remains all is a restoration the pass and the present. Gorgeous Bike
Workspace and build always so clean
woah, the colour scheme makes me feel like i'm in the 90's again
😂 definitely has a 90’s Miami vibe
absolutely beautiful !! love the color combo, nice job man !!
Thank you!
Absolutely stunning! What a rolling work of art!
I appreciate it!
I agree, you chose a great color scheme. I would not have gone with a grey tank, but heck; it looks awesome. Well done. What a fun bike.
Thanks for sharing this, beautiful bike!, great skills.
Thanks for watching!
Le quedo hermosa lo felicito
What a labor of love that bike is. Absolutely gorgeous.
I appreciate it! Many hours that go into these builds.
Wow!! Awesome job! Thanks for sharing
I love the GS platform and you guys absolutely killed this one! It’s amazing!
Thanks guys really appreciate it!
Amazing work!! Reminds me of Ducati Paul Smart.
Thank you!
Those indicators are brilliant! Once again, cracking job, great color scheme, nice ☝️👍👏👍
Wonderful transformation and a beautiful build. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
I love the background music
Great looking bike, brilliant colour scheme and lovely minimal approach. I had a 1978 GS550 and the FIRST thing I would have addressed would be the pathetic drum brakes!!
mine had a disk on the front, a 550E, i think mine was 78 as well.
@@MHLivestreams Yep, same!
Well done, I wasn’t sure I liked the paint at first, but you hit the nail on the head!
180 crank
Beautifully done!!! 😀😀😀😀
Only the Colors got me here, and i am surprised.
Amazing result. But you know it yourself.
Much appreciated! I can confirm that white wheels are a lot of work to keep clean haha
Not to my taste really, but admire the amount of work put in. Good stuff!
Duuude, that thing is soo clean!
Now, that's a Christmas gift I would love to see under my X-mas tree 🎄
haha cheers!
That's an amazing job.. and the color what a awesome decision!! But wasn't it expensive to redo the motorcycle again?
Thank you! Some parts were costly but overall I am able to keep the cost of the rebuild low because I do all the work myself.
No rear mud guard: how do you protect the carbs and the airfilters from water and dirt?
Good eye! I actually had a rear mud guard that I painted Nardo grey and planned on attaching to the swing arm but it ended up being too wide and interfering with the chain. I still need to figure out a different option but for now I just don't ride this bike if it looks like rain.
FABULOUS BUILD!!
What a cool colour
that's my child dream :( good luck bro
It will be The Top of RUclips !
I love watch it !
Love the paint job!
Phenomenal attention to detail. Great paint scheme. I would LOVE to own this bike!
I appreciate it!
Over all, it got a great makeover. Like the dirt bike bars, clip ONS are not allowed! Nice minimalist approach.
I definitely wouldn't have chosen the colour scheme, but it works and there is no doubt, its an excellent job and a brilliant transformation.
If it was my bike, I'd have gone for an olive green tank and mudguard with a rust orange frame and black wheels to match engine. I'd do the same tank decal with rust orange & black stripe. The more I look at your bike, the colour scheme grows on me.
Very impressed with your work.
Great Job & lovely bike.
Thanks for the kind words! My wife actually picked the color scheme for this bike. I thought she was crazy at first but once I saw the bike completely assembled I started to like it more and more. Definitely not a paint scheme you will see on any other bike around town 😁
Lovely job.So much hard work but justified by the end result.Love the colour scheme.Brilliant.
Thank you!
Amazing... you make it look so easy... so inspiring...
Thank you!
Very tasteful. Congrats! Well done. Thank you for the video.
Appreciate it! 🤙🏻
I’m sitting here screaming like weirdo. This really something!! Love it 🥰
Haha glad you enjoyed the build!
@@BayCityRestorations it’s awesome. Inspiring. And it the outcome is gorgeous!!
what an incredible transformation!
really nice work!
that bike is gorgeous!
I appreciate it!
You sir are a genius 👏
Awsome work, mindblowing work, thank you.
Great selection of colors!
Masterpiece. Beautiful.
Thank you!
Nice work. The footage was enjoyable, it’s formatted well. The bike turned out great.
Beautiful. I absolutely love this build, Looks sick and sounds dirty. This is my new dream bike
Thanks for checking out the build! I’ve got another GS in the works now.
Lovely! Particularly impressed by the colour scheme.
Thank you!
Nice job, looks really cool. Love the Led lights
Thank you! Cheers!
Nice build! I have a 79 gs550 in my garage. It's ready to be restored!
Beautiful racer, great job.
Thank you!
Your skill is outstanding and ìˋm a little jealous 👍🏽 What a nice motorcycle
GREAT JOB.
Nice job dude... need full restoration for this bike ! Smooth paint... ❤️❤️ i love it !
Super cute little bike - Well done
Congrats !!!
Amazing job !!!
Thank you!
Congratulations for your best restorations.
Thank you! Cheers!
Q excelente trabajo y q hermosa moto 😉
beautiful and the color scheme is awesome
Thank you! Cheers!
One word ....CLASS
Thank you! 🙌🏻
That brought back some memories, I modified a 425 to cafe racer in the early 1980s.
I got the bike very cheap because it looked so ugly and being 425cc moved it into the 400-750cc insurance bracket.
it was a lot cheaper to insure in the 250-400cc bracket so 400four, 400N, GS400, and XS400 were very popular.
surprising how similar it looked and sounded to yours when it was finished.
I too chopped the silencers exactly like yours.
i had drop handlebars on mine and the wheels were painted bright yellow and black.
tank was red, and the Suzuki badge on it was also painted yellow & black.
a chrome headlight and low single seat and i can't remember any other details.
but the end result was very similar.
i didn't expect anyone else to decide to modify one of these, especially now 35 years later.
That is really cool! Thanks for sharing. I just came across this bike by chance and thought it had an excellent frame to build a cafe racer from. Even though it doesn’t have a ton of power it is a blast to ride.
@@BayCityRestorations it had a lot more power and speed than the 250cc bikes that most people were riding around on, back in those days very few people had bigger than 400cc bikes or if they did it was highly likely a CX500 which wasn't sporty at all.
Excellent work!!!!!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who takes pictures so I can be sure it gets put back together properly. Wow, laying the motor on it's side to get the frame back on is an awesome idea! Dang! If anything else on this project, I'd take the slack out of those fork boots.
When you don't have someone to help lift the motor out of the frame laying it over on its side is the way to go! I have sold this bike but I just picked up a 79 GS850 that I'm working on next :)
@@BayCityRestorations Dude, I'm envious and jealous at the same time at how easy you make this look. I hope you're making some good coin flipping these works of art.
That's beautiful.
Nice! Thanks for sharing
Those massive apehanger bars & saddle must have been latter additions. That's such a sweet little twin. I love the indicators. It looks just perfect.
WoW, what a beauty!!!!
Thanks!
Love the color! And the build, well done sir 👌🏼 Goals
Thanks man!
This colour is... very beautiful!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Simply amazing
Wonderful modification on an under appreciated little bike
Thank you!
Good job love this baik pent
really love that frame color
It was fun to try something different on this one! I think it has convinced me to do some more cool frame colors in the future.
Beautiful bike. This gave me some ideas as to what I should do with my 79 XS Eleven Special.
Thank you! I have yet to build a Yamaha but I could see an XS build happening in the future.
You have done a great job, looks goods, runs good and sounds good...BRAVO
Thank you! 🙏🏻
Absolutely fantastic.
Thank you 🙏🏻
Beautiful bike
very cute! excellent project. greetings from Argentina
Thank you! Cheers!
What a sweet bike , and nothing better than a young lady to help you build it , she's a keeper, 😁👍
Couldn’t agree more!
I had a RZ350 with a RD400 power plant and TZ250 body work. Great video.
very cool build
This was a really nice renovation and restyle that has given this motorcycle a new lease of life!
Not only does it look gorgeous with that frame and tank combination and black engine, but it sounds nice too, in fitting with its new cafe racer looks.
The indicators were excellent, and not having seen them before they certainly had a WOW! factor!
Setting it off beautifully were the headligjt and speedo!
Thank you for sharing your lovely build, subscribed.
I appreciate you checking out the video and taking the time to comment! This was a fun one to build! Many more bikes restorations to come this year 👍🏻