Suzuki GS 425 - Full Time lapse Cafe Racer Build
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 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
Please see below for a full parts list for this build! (Paid Links)
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Headlight - amzn.to/3j5g4NP
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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
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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-bl...
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😃
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!
Cool color combo
Beautifully made custom, I adore this. Good job.
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!
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!
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! 🙏🏻
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.
BEST GS425 ever ! COOL FINISHES AND STYLE
That's a great looking bike now, it's really inspirational. nice work
Thank you! I really appreciate it!
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 😅
Absolutely beautiful ! ..especially the polished alloy parts stand out from so many others - Chapeau !
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
Beautiful
Thank you! Cheers!
Thanks for sharing this, beautiful bike!, great skills.
Thanks for watching!
Such a beauty alive again.And this hypnotic sound...
Workspace and build always so clean
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!
absolutely beautiful !! love the color combo, nice job man !!
Thank you!
Absolutely stunning! What a rolling work of art!
I appreciate it!
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!
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 UA-cam to help fund future builds!
I love the GS platform and you guys absolutely killed this one! It’s amazing!
Thanks guys really appreciate it!
Duuude, that thing is soo clean!
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.
Amazing work!! Reminds me of Ducati Paul Smart.
Thank you!
Le quedo hermosa lo felicito
Wow!! Awesome job! Thanks for sharing
Nice build! I have a 79 gs550 in my garage. It's ready to be restored!
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!
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
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.
FABULOUS BUILD!!
I love the background music
woah, the colour scheme makes me feel like i'm in the 90's again
😂 definitely has a 90’s Miami vibe
Wonderful transformation and a beautiful build. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
What a labor of love that bike is. Absolutely gorgeous.
I appreciate it! Many hours that go into these builds.
Not to my taste really, but admire the amount of work put in. Good stuff!
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.
Those indicators are brilliant! Once again, cracking job, great color scheme, nice ☝️👍👏👍
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 😁
that's my child dream :( good luck bro
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.
Masterpiece. Beautiful.
Thank you!
Amazing... you make it look so easy... so inspiring...
Thank you!
Well done, I wasn’t sure I liked the paint at first, but you hit the nail on the head!
180 crank
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.
Great selection of colors!
i love your bench grinder
It puts in alot of work haha
Now, that's a Christmas gift I would love to see under my X-mas tree 🎄
haha cheers!
Awsome work, mindblowing work, thank you.
Beautiful !!!
Phenomenal attention to detail. Great paint scheme. I would LOVE to own this bike!
I appreciate it!
Lovely job.So much hard work but justified by the end result.Love the colour scheme.Brilliant.
Thank you!
It will be The Top of UA-cam !
I love watch it !
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.
in love with this build
Thank you!
Lovely! Particularly impressed by the colour scheme.
Thank you!
Over all, it got a great makeover. Like the dirt bike bars, clip ONS are not allowed! Nice minimalist approach.
Beautifully done!!! 😀😀😀😀
Absolutely fantastic.
Thank you 🙏🏻
Piekna robota 👍👏
Good job love this baik pent
looks amazing. job well done!
Thank you! 🤘🏻
beautiful and the color scheme is awesome
Thank you! Cheers!
Excelent work!! Greats colors! From Bs As, Argentina!
Awesome! Thanks for watching all the way from Argentina!
Perfect colors! Cool project, guys \m/
Cheers! thanks for checking out the video!
Q excelente trabajo y q hermosa moto 😉
Nice job, looks really cool. Love the Led lights
Thank you! Cheers!
Simply amazing
Nice! Thanks for sharing
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.
Looks awesome
Excellent work!!!!!
what an incredible transformation!
really nice work!
that bike is gorgeous!
I appreciate it!
Hermosa, muy bueno tú proyecto, te felicito.
Love the paint job!
Very tasteful. Congrats! Well done. Thank you for the video.
Appreciate it! 🤙🏻
Love every cafe build I see. This one is no different. I need to do my '83 Yamaha XS400 SECA up in a unique way that's me. Just needs parts and paint. Best wishes from West Michigan.
Awesome! Love the old xs400’s
Just awesome what you did from start to finish. Great work on your part making it into a new adventure, it looks great to, for sure.
Thank you!
Nice work. The footage was enjoyable, it’s formatted well. The bike turned out great.
Love the color! And the build, well done sir 👌🏼 Goals
Thanks man!
Super cute little bike - Well done
Hard work..
God bless you man
Thanks man! Hard work but then end result makes it worth it.
You have done a great job, looks goods, runs good and sounds good...BRAVO
Thank you! 🙏🏻
Nice job brother!! Very nice touches. Enjoy all of your videos!!
Appreciate you following along with the builds!
That’s an amazing custom job 👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😎
Thank you! 🙏🏻
That is some very nice work, love the gold chain!
Thank you! Had to go with the gold chain!
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!!
WoW, what a beauty!!!!
Thanks!
Cafe racer and/or street tracker is definitely right up my alley. I would love a light and (somewhat) off-road capable "cafe tracker" myself. Naked and minimalistic is the way to go.
Yea I would consider this more of a brat build. I have a BMW scrambler/tracker that is a lot of fun and very capable off-road. This bike would need a different set of tires to be more capable off-road.
That's beautiful.
Totally awesome work 👏 👌 👍
Awesome!
This colour is... very beautiful!!
Thank you! Cheers!
GREAT JOB.