Team Classic Suzuki builds a Katana with 200-hp WSBK underpinnings! Team Classic Suzuki, sponsored by Suzuki’s official vintage parts program, fields some very trick vintage machinery in classic racing series around Europe and beyond. “The […]
Tag: Suzuki GSX-R
Unholy Roller: ’86 Suzuki GSX-R750
Cole Parnell resurrects a first-gen GSX-R750 Slabby… In 1985, the world received the original Suzuki GSX-R750, a lightweight aluminum-framed race replica that would set the standard for modern inline-four sportbikes. “With a clean sheet of […]
Slingshot: Suzuki GSX-R750 Resto by GMW
Gaston Motorcycle Werks restores / upgrades an 80s icon… Introduced in 1985, the original Suzuki GSX-R750 would become a legend in its own time. The world’s first street-legal road-race replica that the average sport rider […]
Cafe Killer: Suzuki GSX-R750 by Cool Kid Customs
“Neo Tokyo” — an Akira-inspired slabside GSX-R… In 1985, Suzuki introduced the original GSX-R750, an aluminum-framed racebike for the street — a bike that would serve as the grandfather of all Japanese super sports to […]
Big-Bore Weapon: Suzuki GSX-R1100 “Bushido”
Rusty Wrench Motorcycles builds an 1100cc weapon… In the early 1980s, Suzuki set to work developing a machine that could outperform the formidable Honda Interceptor. In 1984, they released the GSX-R400, an aluminum-framed four-cylinder sportbike […]
Topper’s Suzuki GSX-R1100 Cafe Racer
Our man from Cheltenham, Dave Solomon of Butchered Classics, is back with another build. This time, it’s a 1989 Suzuki GSX-R1100 built for his “vertically-challenged” mate, Topper. As you may know, the 1989 “K model” […]
